Backport #1182: REXML::Source#position badly implemented and other related issues

• Status: Closed
• Assignee: -

[gettalong (Thomas Leitner)]

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The implementation of REXML::Source#position works sometimes but most of the time it doesn't. Here is the source for the method:

  119     def position
  120       @orig.index( @buffer )
  121     end

The @buffer holds everything after the current position and @orig is the original string. It often occurs that @buffer is so short that multiple matches in @orig are possible and therefore a correct position cannot be obtained.

The easiest way to remedy the situation (I think) is to introduce an instance variable @pos that holds the current position (I have attached a fixed version of the REXML::Source class based on the 1.9.1 file rexml/source.rb).

This bug applies to Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 altough it seems that the REXML::Source class isn't used there anymore (the SourceFactory uses a StringIO object when presented a string and therefore uses REXML::SourceIO instead of REXML::Source) - so maybe in 1.9 the REXML::Source class can be removed?
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[mame (Yusuke Endoh)]

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Hi,

2009/2/20 Thomas Leitner [e-mail]:

The implementation of REXML::Source#position works sometimes but most of the time it doesn't.
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This bug applies to Ruby 1.8 and 1.9 altough it seems that the REXML::Source class isn't used there anymore

As you said, 1.9 does not use REXML::Source. This issue
actually occurs only on 1.8, I think. Than, I move the
ticket to ruby 1.8 subproject.

Indeed, REXML::Source can be removed from 1.9.
But rexml shall not be changed until actual problem occurs
because there is no maintainer for rexml.

--
Yusuke ENDOH [e-mail]
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[jeremyevans0 (Jeremy Evans)]

• Tracker changed from Bug to Backport
• Project changed from Ruby 1.8 to Backport187
• Description updated (diff)
• Status changed from Open to Closed
• ruby -v deleted (ruby 1.8.6 (2007-09-23 patchlevel 110) [i686-darwin8.11.1])