invalid 'in' operand F

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If you try do add a xml source dynamically and the source is not valid you 
will get this error instead of the real error message. Tested in Firefox 3.

File: simile-ajax-bundle.js:1545 
alert("Caught exception: "+E+"\n\nDetails: "+("description" in F?
F.description:F));

A Fix could be:
alert("Caught exception: "+E+"\n\nDetails: "+ F.description);

But I am not sure about the right syntax or the sense behind the code. 

Original issue reported on code.google.com by Philipp....@gmail.com on 19 Feb 2010 at 9:14

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I received the same error loading a JSON source.

Original comment by quasaur on 30 Jun 2010 at 3:53

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Testing Platform info: 

Fedora 13 - 2.6.33.5-124.fc13.x86_64 #1 SMP
Apache 2.2.15 (64-bit)
MySQL 5.1.47
Joomla 1.5.18
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.4) Gecko/20100622 
Fedora/3.6.4-1.fc13 Firefox/3.6.4

Original comment by quasaur on 30 Jun 2010 at 5:56

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Sample JSON File:

{
'wiki-url':"http://simile.mit.edu/shelf/",
'wiki-section':"Simile JFK Timeline",
'dateTimeFormat':'Gregorian',
'events':[
{
'start':new Date(-10741,0,0)
'end':new Date(-9839,0,0)
'durationEvent':true
'title':"Birth"
'description':"Birth of Enos."},{
'start':new Date(-9838,0,0)
'end':new Date(-8930,0,0)
'durationEvent':true
'title':"Birth"
'description':"Cainan is born."},{
'start':new Date(-11080,0,0)
'end':new Date(-8880,0,0)
'durationEvent':true
'title':"Calendar"
'description':"Earth: START: The Precessional Era of Leo"},{
'start':new Date(-8929,0,0)
'end':new Date(-8036,0,0)
'durationEvent':true
'title':"Birth"
'description':"Mahalaleel is born."}]
}

Original comment by quasaur on 30 Jun 2010 at 5:59

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Timeline Script:

// Script to build History of the World SIMILE Timeline

var d = Timeline.DateTime.parseGregorianDateTime("-11080");

var theme = Timeline.ClassicTheme.create(); // create the theme
theme.timeline_start = new Date('April 1, -11080');
theme.timeline_stop = new Date('January 1, 4126');

function onLoad() {
    var eventSource = new Timeline.DefaultEventSource();
    var bandInfos = [
            Timeline.createBandInfo({
                eventSource:    eventSource,
                date:           d,
            theme:      theme,
                width:          "70%", 
                intervalUnit:   Timeline.DateTime.DECADE, 
                intervalPixels: 100
            }),
            Timeline.createBandInfo({
                overview:       true,
                eventSource:    eventSource,
                date:           d,
            theme:      theme,
                width:          "30%", 
                intervalUnit:   Timeline.DateTime.CENTURY, 
                intervalPixels: 200
            })
    ];
    bandInfos[1].syncWith = 0;
    bandInfos[1].highlight = true;

    tl = Timeline.create(document.getElementById("my-timeline"), bandInfos, Timeline.HORIZONTAL);
    Timeline.loadJSON("test.json", function(json, url) { eventSource.loadJSON(json, url); })
}

function centerTimeline(year) {
        tl.getBand(0).setCenterVisibleDate(new Date(year, 0, 1));
}

var resizeTimerID = null;

function onResize() {
    if (resizeTimerID == null) {
        resizeTimerID = window.setTimeout(function() {resizeTimerID = null;tl.layout();}, 500);
        }
}

Original comment by quasaur on 30 Jun 2010 at 6:04

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Part of the problem seems to be the date: Timeline can't process this JSON data:

{
'dateTimeFormat':'iso8601',
'events':[
{
'start':'-10741',
'end':'-9839',
'isDuration':true,
'title':'Birth',
'link':'http://timehasanend.org/public/thae_ch03.html#05',
'description':'Birth of Enos.'}]
}

...so the question is: what is Timeline's date limitations?

Original comment by quasaur on 1 Jul 2010 at 6:44

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[SOLVED]...
'dateTimeFormat' should be'gregorian' NOT 'Gregorian'
special characters (like the apostrophe) need to be escaped.

Original comment by quasaur on 3 Jul 2010 at 1:34

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Original comment by ryan...@csail.mit.edu on 23 Jun 2011 at 10:08

• Added labels: Project-Timeline