Re: SCXML Test 553 assumes unset variables are invalid

Hey there,

I am having difficulties passing test 553 and 554. The tests are supposed to check that no invoke/send are executed if there is an error in their evaluation - my problem is that there is no error!

Both have a namelist=""foo"” in there. My XML parser will resolve that to '“foo”’ (mind the double quotes). Now if I try to evaluate this with the ECMAScript DM, it evaluates just fine to a string with the content of ‘foo’, no error there. The spec requires namelist to contain “location expressions” and for ECMAScript specifically “left-hand-side expression” which makes sense.

But I am having trouble to determine whether something is a valid LHS, how would you check such a thing in JavaScript? I could have “NAMELIST_ENTRY = undefined;” and see if I can parse it, without evaluating it but I was wondering if someone thought of something more clever?

Regards
Stefan

On Jun 29, 2014, at 15:57, Jim Barnett <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have introduced conf:invalidNamelist and used in test553 and test554.
> 
> On 6/28/2014 11:21 PM, Gavin Kistner wrote:
>> test553.txml includes:
>> 
>>    <!-- include a non-existing var in the namelist -->
>>    <send event="event1" conf:namelist="2"/>
>> 
>> This is another case of a test assuming that a data model location that has not been set is invalid. I would prefer for this to be converted to:
>>    <send event="event1" conf:invalidNamelistLocation="”/>
>> so that I can do something special here in my txml->scxml conversion.
>> 
>> 
> 
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