openstreetmap-trac
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3 years ago Author: stevage [Added to the original trac issue at 4.42am, Saturday, 10th March 2012]
The actual typo that triggered the above was a missing close quote: <choice value="foo text="bar"/>
Reporter: stevage [Submitted to the original trac issue database at 11.15pm, Friday, 9th March 2012]
I recently made a change to one of the map_features subsidiaries which had a typo in it, and received a couple of unhelpful error messages.
On loading:
TypeError: Error #1090: XML parser failure: element is malformed.
When trying to display the simple editor:
RangeError: Error #2006: The supplied index is out of bounds. at flash.display::DisplayObjectContainer/getChildAt() at mx.core::Container/getChildAt() at net.systemeD.potlatch2::CategorySelector/setSelectedFeature()[I:\OSM\potgit6\potlatch2\net\systemeD\potlatch2\CategorySelector.mxml:103] at net.systemeD.potlatch2::CategorySelector/__categoryStack_creationComplete()[I:\OSM\potgit6\potlatch2\net\systemeD\potlatch2\CategorySelector.mxml:12] at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEventFunction() at flash.events::EventDispatcher/dispatchEvent() at mx.core::UIComponent/dispatchEvent() at mx.core::UIComponent/set initialized() at mx.managers::LayoutManager/doPhasedInstantiation() at mx.managers::LayoutManager/doPhasedInstantiationCallback() at flash.utils::Timer/_timerDispatch() at flash.utils::Timer/tick()
Now, since we can consider the map_features to be user-modifiable (as opposed to something we just QA before checking in), we should give more helpful error messages if they mess it up.