557763 - The default assignee and QA contact are not displayed correctly if the component name starts with a dot or an underscore

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 284650

(Bugzilla :: Administration, task)

Description

[timeless]

Attachment: redacted view

i'm setting up a proposal for a product, and i started adding components. but after adding my second component, i got a strange grid.

things look fine in 'describecomponents.cgi', but they look bad in 'editcompoents.cgi'

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

The problem happens if the component name starts with a dot or an underscore. Not sure why.

Comment 2

[Frédéric Buclin]

Targetting 3.6 for now. But I may take the fix for 3.4 if we aren't locked to security fixes yet.

Comment 3

[Frédéric Buclin]

Ah yes, I remember! The problem is that keys starting with . or _ are seen as private by TT, and so are not passed further. This is exactly the same root cause as in bug 160595, bug 284650 and bug 346280.

I still think my proposed fix from bug 160595 is the right way to go for us, per myk's URL in bug 160595 comment 6.

Comment 4

[Frédéric Buclin]

Oh, even simpler:

http://template-toolkit.org/docs/manual/Variables.html#section_Hash_Array_References

"Any key in a hash which starts with a '_' or '.' character will be considered private and cannot be evaluated or updated from within a template. The undefined value will be returned for any such variable accessed which the Template Toolkit will silently ignore.

You can disable this feature by setting the $Template::Stash::PRIVATE package variable to a false value."

Comment 5

[Frédéric Buclin]

I fixed this problem in bug 284650, which was here first. :)
As it's the same root cause, it's a dupe.