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Bug 354025

Summary:	Generation has exception on this egl statement s1[2:3] = s2;
Product:	z_Archived	Reporter:	Kathy Carroll <carrollk>
Component:	EDT	Assignee:	Project Inbox <edt.javagen-inbox>
Status:	CLOSED INVALID	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	jeffdouglas
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Windows XP
Whiteboard:

Description Kathy Carroll

2011-08-05 13:01:19 EDT

Build Identifier: 0.7

EGL code
   		longStr = "123456789";	
  	  	shortStr = "abc";
  		longStr[2:4] = shortStr;   		
  		desiredResult = "1abc56789";
		SysLib.writstdout("results" + (longStr == desiredResult) );

JavaGen & JavaScript produce this error

IWN.JavaGen.9998.e 0/0 Exception occurred: No such method genAssignment(org.eclipse.edt.mof.egl.impl.SubstringAccessImpl, org.eclipse.edt.gen.java.Context, org.eclipse.edt.mof.codegen.api.TabbedWriter, 
 org.eclipse.edt.mof.egl.impl.MemberNameImpl, java.lang.String, ) for any template for Class org.eclipse.edt.mof.egl.impl.SubstringAccessImpl

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. write the function above
2. save the file
3.

Comment 1 Kathy Carroll

2011-08-05 13:16:53 EDT

After talking to Tim, I understand the decision hasn't been made about including this assignment behavior.  I'll let you decide what needs to happen to the defect.

Comment 2 Jeff Douglas

2011-08-05 14:29:37 EDT

A decision was made to not allow substring on the lhs of an assignment, so this is not valid syntax to support.

Comment 3 Kathy Carroll

2011-09-16 13:59:25 EDT

not supported