[ALOY-731] Alloy: Ti.UI.textField: clearOnEdit being passed back as String instead of bool, causes crash

GitHub Issue	n/a
Type	Bug
Priority	Medium
Status	Closed
Resolution	Fixed
Resolution Date	2013-07-09T17:07:31.000+0000
Affected Version/s	n/a
Fix Version/s	Alloy 1.2.0, 2013 Sprint 14
Components	XML
Labels	android, qe-testadded
Reporter	Carter Lathrop
Assignee	Tony Lukasavage
Created	2013-07-06T01:59:41.000+0000
Updated	2013-07-15T23:45:14.000+0000

Description

NOTE: This is an android-only issue When setting clearOnEdit to true for a textField, it crashes the app. The error reads:

[ERROR][TiApplication( 1596)] (main) [1996,1996] Sending event: exception on thread: main msg:java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{it.italiaonline.mysos/org.appcelerator.titanium.TiActivity}: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.lang.Boolean; Titanium 3.1.1,2013/06/15 16:10,f7592c1
[ERROR][TiApplication( 1596)] java.lang.RuntimeException: Unable to start activity ComponentInfo{it.italiaonline.mysos/org.appcelerator.titanium.TiActivity}: java.lang.ClassCastException: java.lang.String cannot be cast to java.lang.Boolean
...

*Alloy Test Case*

<Alloy>
    <TabGroup>
        <Tab icon="KS_nav_ui.png" title="SOS">
            <Window title="SOS">
 
            ...
            <TextField borderColor="#000000" borderRadius="5" borderStyle="Titanium.UI.INPUT_BORDERSTYLE_ROUNDED" borderWidth="1" clearOnEdit="true" height="7.49%" left="3%" top="20%" value="State" width="94.38%"/>
            </Window>
        </Tab>
        ...
    </TabGroup>
</Alloy>

*Working as Expected in Ti Standard*

var win = Ti.UI.createWindow({
	backgroundColor: 'gray',
    layout: 'vertical'
    }),
    textArea1 = Ti.UI.createTextField({
    	clearOnEdit: true,
    	value:"this should clear",
    	width: '50%'
    });
   textArea2 = Ti.UI.createTextField({
   	top: 20,
    	clearOnEdit: true,
    	value:"this should clear",
    	width: '50%'
    });

    win.add(textArea1);
    win.add(textArea2);
    win.open();

Comments

Carter Lathrop 2013-07-06

From Q&A: http://developer.appcelerator.com/question/154507/android-emulator-error-textfield-clearonedit-property-app-crash
Tony Lukasavage 2013-07-09

PR: https://github.com/appcelerator/alloy/pull/169 test app: https://github.com/appcelerator/alloy/tree/master/test/apps/testing/ALOY-731 Functional test passes by running the app on android and ensuring that it runs without exception and that the appropriate TextFields and TextAreas either do or do not clear on edit. hintText is provided to easily identify the appropriate behaviors for each control.
Federico Casali 2013-07-15

Verified as fixed. Environment: Titanium SDK 3.1.2.v20130710144553 Appcelerator Studio 3.1.2.201307101037 Alloy 1.2.0 Closing.

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