1652274 - NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE: PreferDisplayName: undefined - not a boolean AddrBookCard.jsm:199 - TB 78 ESR

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(MailNews Core :: Address Book, defect)

Description

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Switched to TB 78 ESR and getting this a lot in the console:

NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE: PreferDisplayName: undefined - not a boolean AddrBookCard.jsm:199
getPropertyAsBool resource:///modules/AddrBookCard.jsm:199

Comment 1

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

Not a bug. Just XPCOM complaining about an error value going past. The error value is correct.

Comment 2

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

Well, no point painting the console red, is there?

Comment 3

[Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2)]

This is in TB 78 to which I've just migrated. So if the ABs aren't right, then there is an issue in the migration.

Comment 4

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

So you don't see what the issue this user describers for display name? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1296572

Comment 5

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

(In reply to Wayne Mery (:wsmwk) from comment #4)

So you don't see what the issue this user describers for display name? https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/1296572

I think what they're trying to say is that the check box in the edit contact dialog is always ticked when it shouldn't be. I've checked 68 and the same problem existed there. We should fix it, but it's not related to this error message.

Filed bug 1655884 for that.

Comment 6

[Geoff Lankow (:darktrojan)]

(In reply to Jorg K (CEST = GMT+2) from comment #2)

Well, no point painting the console red, is there?

I cannot prevent the message from being printed.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

per comment 6

Comment 9

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

I think we can just change the IDL to avoid console spew from this.

Comment 10

[Magnus Melin [:mkmelin]]

Attachment: Bug 1652274 - Fix idl to avoid lots of "PreferDisplayName: undefined - not a boolean" errors. r=#thunderbird-reviewers

Change the IDL to use a default value in case the property was not set. This way we avoid the pointless error spew.
There were many "errors" in tests such as comm/mail/test/browser/message-header/browser_messageHeader.js

Comment 11

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/comm-central/rev/8e41205b2dce
Fix idl to avoid lots of "PreferDisplayName: undefined - not a boolean" errors. r=leftmostcat