Re: Removing things from Context

Nathan:

I wasn't aware of the bug, but I'll try to work up a unit test for this right away, and I'll bring it to the attention of the Avalon group as well. I thought I had some code that did something similar... I'll also dig for that.

Thanks!

Mike

On Mon, 26 Apr 2004 19:59:37 -0700
Nathan Kontny <Nathan.Kontny-UgwZ4owrJFB8UrSeD/[email protected]> wrote:

> I believe I am seeing a bug in Avalons DefaultContext.  When you try and remove
> something from context by doing a context.put(key, null), the context class is
> doing: 
> 
>     public void put( final Object key, final Object value )
>         throws IllegalStateException
>     {
>         checkWriteable();
>         if( null == value )
>         {
>             m_contextData.remove( key );
>         }
>         else
>         {
>             m_contextData.put( key, value );
>         }
>     }
> 
> However a context can have a parent context I guess, and its not going in there
> to remove the value as it might be located there.  So I am seeing things not
> get removed from session when I tell it to. 
> 
> Has anyone got a workaround for this, or know if there is an updated avalon with
> this fix? 
> 
> Thank you, 
> Nathan
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