415950 - the example e4x_example.js fails midway

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 380173

(Rhino Graveyard :: E4X, defect)

Description

[Richard Hildred]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11) Gecko/20071127 Firefox/2.0.0.11
Build Identifier: rhino1_6R7

starting at line 79:

order.customer.address.state = "CA";
order.item[0] = "";
order.item[0].description = "Small Rodents";
order.item[0].quantity = 10;
order.item[0].price = 6.95;

should be:

order.customer.address.state = "CA";
order.item += <item/>;
order.item[0] = "";
order.item[0].description = "Small Rodents";
order.item[0].quantity = 10;
order.item[0].price = 6.95;



Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1) cd examples/E4X
2) java -jar ../../js.jar e4x_example.js
Actual Results:  
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Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.mozilla.javascript.xmlimpl.XMLList.put(XMLList.java:227)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.xmlimpl.XMLObjectImpl.ecmaPut(XMLObjectImpl.ja
va:288)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.setObjectElem(ScriptRuntime.java
:1442)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.setObjectElem(ScriptRuntime.java
:1434)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.gen.c1._c0(Unknown Source)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.gen.c1.call(Unknown Source)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.ContextFactory.doTopCall(ContextFactory.java:3
93)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.ScriptRuntime.doTopCall(ScriptRuntime.java:283
4)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.gen.c1.call(Unknown Source)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.gen.c1.exec(Unknown Source)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main.evaluateScript(Main.java:524)

        at org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main.processFileSecure(Main.java:4
46)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main.processFile(Main.java:412)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main.processSource(Main.java:403)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main.processFiles(Main.java:179)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main$IProxy.run(Main.java:100)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.Context.call(Context.java:577)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.ContextFactory.call(ContextFactory.java:503)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main.exec(Main.java:162)
        at org.mozilla.javascript.tools.shell.Main.main(Main.java:140)

Expected Results:  
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The order custructed using expandos and super-expandos is:
<order>
  <customer>
    <name>Fred Jones</name>
    <address>
      <street>123 Long Lang</street>
      <city>Underwood</city>
      <state>CA</state>
    </address>
  </customer>
  <item>

    <description>Small Rodents</description>
    <quantity>10</quantity>
    <price>6.95</price>
  </item>
</order>
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The order after appending a new item is:
<order>
  <customer>
    <name>Fred Jones</name>
    <address>
      <street>123 Long Lang</street>
      <city>Underwood</city>
      <state>CA</state>
    </address>
  </customer>
  <item>

    <description>Small Rodents</description>
    <quantity>10</quantity>
    <price>6.95</price>
  </item>
  <item>
    <description>Catapult</description>
    <price>139.95</price>
  </item>
</order>
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The dynamically computed element value is:
<name id="5">Fred</name>
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The encoding style of the soap message is specified by:
http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/encoding/
The body of the soap message is:
<soap:Body xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">
  <m:GetLastTradePrice xmlns:m="http://mycompany.com/stocks">
    <symbol>MYCO</symbol>
  </m:GetLastTradePrice>
</soap:Body>
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XML object constructed using the default xml namespace:
<x xmlns="http://default.namespace.com">
  <a>one</a>
  <b>two</b>
  <c xmlns="http://some.other.namespace.com">three</c>
</x>
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The order id is:123456
The children of the order are:
<customer>
  <firstname>John</firstname>
  <lastname>Doe</lastname>
</customer>
<item id="3456">
  <description>Big Screen Television</description>
  <price>1299.99</price>
  <quantity>1</quantity>
</item>
<item id="56789">
  <description>DVD Player</description>
  <price>399.99</price>
  <quantity>1</quantity>
</item>
The order descriptions are:
<description>Big Screen Television</description>
<description>DVD Player</description>
The second item is:
<item id="56789">
  <description>DVD Player</description>
  <price>399.99</price>
  <quantity>1</quantity>
</item>
The children of the items are:
<description>Big Screen Television</description>
<price>1299.99</price>
<quantity>1</quantity>
<description>DVD Player</description>
<price>399.99</price>
<quantity>1</quantity>
The second child of the order is:
<item id="3456">
  <description>Big Screen Television</description>
  <price>1299.99</price>
  <quantity>1</quantity>
</item>
The total price of the order is: 1699.98
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All the employee names are:
<name>Joe</name>
<name>Sue</name>
The employee named Joe is:
<employee id="1">
  <name>Joe</name>
  <age>20</age>
</employee>
Employees with ids 1 & 2:
<employee id="1">
  <name>Joe</name>
  <age>20</age>
</employee>
<employee id="2">
  <name>Sue</name>
  <age>30</age>
</employee>
Name of the the employee with ID=1: Joe
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