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bug #52989: classdef: missing error messages on multiply defined properties

Submitter:  A.R. Burgers <arb>
Submitted:  Sat 27 Jan 2018 10:34:25 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Classdef Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  5 - Normal Item Group:  Missed Error or Warning
Status:  None Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Open
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Mon 11 Mar 2019 06:59:21 PM UTC, comment #2: 

refresh of this patch for octave-6.x.x:


diff -r 62c1443babd8 libinterp/octave-value/cdef-class.cc
--- a/libinterp/octave-value/cdef-class.cc      Sun Mar 10 17:02:27 2019 -0700
+++ b/libinterp/octave-value/cdef-class.cc      Mon Mar 11 19:57:31 2019 +0100
@@ -1062,6 +1062,8 @@
                 for (auto& prop_p : *pb_p->element_list ())
                   {
                     std::string prop_name = prop_p->ident ()->name ();
+                    if (retval.find_property(prop_name).ok())
+                       error ("property %s already defined", prop_name.c_str());

                     cdef_property prop = cdm.make_property (retval, prop_name);


A.R. Burgers <arb>
Sun 28 Jan 2018 09:30:08 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Here is a tentative patch, with which produces an error when an attempt is made to create a property when a property with that name is already present in the class or any of the superclasses:


diff -r d58543eb53e9 libinterp/octave-value/ov-classdef.cc
--- a/libinterp/octave-value/ov-classdef.cc     Fri Jan 26 00:11:11 2018 -0500
+++ b/libinterp/octave-value/ov-classdef.cc     Sun Jan 28 22:25:37 2018 +0100
@@ -2756,6 +2765,8 @@
               for (auto& prop_p : *pb_p->element_list ())
                 {
                   std::string prop_name = prop_p->ident ()->name ();
+                 if (retval.find_property(prop_name).ok())
+                   error ("property %s already defined", prop_name.c_str());

                   cdef_property prop = cdm.make_property (retval, prop_name);


A.R. Burgers <arb>
Sat 27 Jan 2018 10:34:25 PM UTC, original submission:  

octave happily parses this class:


classdef zz2
    properties
        p1
        p1
    end
    properties (Dependent)
        p1
    end
    methods
        function val = f(obj)
            val = 'f';
        end
    end
end


A side effect of the multiply defined properties is that method f can not be found: the next script


zz2_i = zz2;
f = zz2_i.f

gives this error message:

+verbatim+
error: subsref: unknown method or property: f
error: called from
    run_zz2 at line 2 column 3


Also octave allows the same property name in a class and a superclass:


classdef zz < zzs
    properties
        p1 = 2;
    end
end



classdef zzs
    properties
        p1 = 1;
    end
end


which results on execution of this script


zz_i = zz;
p1 = zz_i.p1


in


p1 =  2


Is the case for both stable and dev.
I didn't find this reported in an earlier bug report, but can hardly imagine this has gone unnoticed to date.


A.R. Burgers <arb>

 

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