382170 - avmplus::File.exists return null

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 459284

(Tamarin Graveyard :: Virtual Machine, defect)

Description

[zwetan]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.1.3) Gecko/20070309 Firefox/2.0.0.3
Build Identifier: avmplus shell 1.0 build cyclone_dschaffe_2007-05-11_15-05

File.exists( anyfilepath ) always return null
when it should return either true or false.

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. define bug_File_exists.as
---
import avmplus.File;
trace( File.exists( "unknown.txt" ) );
---

2. compile the as file and run with avmplus or avmplus_sd
Actual Results:  
File.exists function always return null.

Expected Results:  
File.exists function should return true or false

in mozilla/js/tamarin/shell/toplevel.as

the class File define
public native static function exists(filename:String):String;

it should define
public native static function exists(filename:String):Boolean;

Comment 1

[zwetan]

Attachment: simple File.exists patch

the change in itself is simple, but to apply and use it you need to regenerate toplevel.h and toplevel.cpp.

notes:
1. I had to edit /core/XML.as
   to be able to compile global.abc (needed to generate toplevel.h and toplevel.cpp)
2. in avmplus_8.vcproj \core\version.h
   has been replaced by \core\avmplusVersion.h
   (not really pertinent for that diff)
3. toplevel.cpp and toplevel.h are way different than the original
   because I generated the bytecode including all *.as files from 1 scripts
   (I didn't get how to generate the bytecode from different scripts ...)

Comment 2

[Chris Peyer]

Transfer Bug from Core->Tamarin to Tamarin Product.

Comment 4

[Brent Baker]

Bug 459284 is the same issue and has already been RESOLVED/FIXED so closing this issue as a duplicate even though it was in here first.