283520 - Context.newObject( ) methods search for constructor in incorrect scope

Status: RESOLVED INVALID

(Rhino Graveyard :: Core, defect)

Description

[Daniel Gredler]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.7.5) Gecko/20041107 Firefox/1.0

All the Context.newObject() methods say in their JavaDocs that the scope passed
in is searched for the constructor with the specified name. However, the scope
searched is actually the top level scope for the specified scope. One or the
other is wrong!

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Igor Bukanov]

Rhino does not supports application-level scope objects with non-null
getParentScope(). Although it may apparently work, there are many issues with
that. If you need to share scopes, use protype chain, not scope chain.

The docs should be more explicit about that, but that is a topic for another bug.