[AC-2245] Custom properties not passed by reference

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	Bug
Priority	n/a
Status	Closed
Resolution	Invalid
Resolution Date	2013-04-02T23:51:19.000+0000
Affected Version/s	n/a
Fix Version/s	n/a
Components	Titanium SDK & CLI
Labels	n/a
Reporter	Tristan Marly
Assignee	Mauro Parra-Miranda
Created	2012-12-13T07:53:36.000+0000
Updated	2016-03-08T07:41:14.000+0000

Description

I don't know if this is a bug or a weird behavior, but it seems that when creating some Ti.UI objects, custom properties are cloned and not passed by reference. Here is a simple test case illustrating the pb:

var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
        layout: 'vertical',
});

var customPropertyValue = {text: "hello"};

// Build a table
var data = [
	Ti.UI.createTableViewRow({
		title: 'Row 1',
		customProperty: customPropertyValue,
	}),
];
var table = Ti.UI.createTableView({
		data: data,
});

// Click events
table.addEventListener('click', function(e) {
	Ti.API.info('Event ! text=' + e.rowData.customProperty.text);
});
win.add(table);
win.open();

// Modify the property
customPropertyValue.text = "bye";

As you can see, the customPropertyValue is modified at the end of the code. But when we later click on the row, the displayed message is "hello", and not "bye". So at the step "build a table", it seems that the customPropertyValue is cloned.

Comments

Pedro Enrique 2013-04-02

For native components the properties are passed by value
Mauro Parra-Miranda 2013-11-24

Invalid issue.

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