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-rw-r--r--indra/llcommon/tests/lleventdispatcher_test.cpp26
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/indra/llcommon/tests/lleventdispatcher_test.cpp b/indra/llcommon/tests/lleventdispatcher_test.cpp
index c8f45290d6..afc2d01729 100644
--- a/indra/llcommon/tests/lleventdispatcher_test.cpp
+++ b/indra/llcommon/tests/lleventdispatcher_test.cpp
@@ -98,7 +98,13 @@ struct Vars
int i;
float f;
double d;
- const char* cp;
+ // Capture param passed as char*. But merely storing a char* received from
+ // our caller, possibly the .c_str() from a concatenation expression,
+ // would be Bad: the pointer will be invalidated long before we can query
+ // it. We could allocate a new chunk of memory, copy the string data and
+ // point to that instead -- but hey, guess what, we already have a class
+ // that does that!
+ std::string cp;
std::string s;
LLUUID uuid;
LLDate date;
@@ -111,8 +117,7 @@ struct Vars
b(false),
i(0),
f(0),
- d(0),
- cp(NULL)
+ d(0)
{}
// Detect any non-default values for convenient testing
@@ -130,7 +135,7 @@ struct Vars
result["f"] = f;
if (d)
result["d"] = d;
- if (cp)
+ if (! cp.empty())
result["cp"] = cp;
if (! s.empty())
result["s"] = s;
@@ -179,6 +184,11 @@ struct Vars
/*-------- Arbitrary-params (non-const, const, static) methods ---------*/
void methodna(NPARAMSa)
{
+ // Because our const char* param cp might be NULL, and because we
+ // intend to capture the value in a std::string, have to distinguish
+ // between the NULL value and any non-NULL value. Use a convention
+ // easy for a human reader: enclose any non-NULL value in single
+ // quotes, reserving the unquoted string "NULL" to represent a NULL ptr.
std::string vcp;
if (cp == NULL)
vcp = "NULL";
@@ -196,7 +206,7 @@ struct Vars
this->i = i;
this->f = f;
this->d = d;
- this->cp = cp;
+ this->cp = vcp;
}
void methodnb(NPARAMSb)
@@ -1177,6 +1187,8 @@ namespace tut
{
expectb[paramsb[i].asString()] = argsb[i];
}
+ // Adjust expecta["cp"] for special Vars::cp treatment.
+ expecta["cp"] = std::string("'") + expecta["cp"].asString() + "'";
cout << "expecta: " << expecta << "\nexpectb: " << expectb << '\n';
foreach(const FunctionsTriple& tr, array_funcs(v))
{
@@ -1198,8 +1210,4 @@ namespace tut
// - refactor params-related data as {'a':arraya, 'b':arrayb}
// - function to build a map from keys array, values array (or
// vice-versa?)
- // - Vars formatting for char* and for binary should be done in setter
- // method, storing each as std::string. We should NOT NOT NOT store
- // char*! The string data we receive through the param list will be gone
- // by the time we try to inspect()!
} // namespace tut