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Bug 362044

Summary:	BrowserRidget/WebKit fires an exception if the URL is empty
Product:	[RT] Riena	Reporter:	Thorsten Schenkel <thorsten.schenkel>
Component:	ridget	Assignee:	Nobody - feel free to take it <nobody>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:
Severity:	normal
Priority:	P3	CC:	nobody
Version:	4.0.0
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	PC
OS:	Linux
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Description Thorsten Schenkel

2011-10-26 05:45:31 EDT

If the URL of the BrowserRidget is empty (null or empty string ""), BrowserRidget.updateUIControl doesn't work, because the follwoing exception is thrown:

java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 0
	at java.lang.String.charAt(String.java:686)
	at org.eclipse.swt.browser.WebKit.setUrl(WebKit.java:1300)
	at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser.setUrl(Browser.java:1108)
	at org.eclipse.swt.browser.Browser.setUrl(Browser.java:1076)
	at org.eclipse.riena.internal.ui.ridgets.swt.BrowserRidget.updateUIControl(BrowserRidget.java:185)
	at org.eclipse.riena.internal.ui.ridgets.swt.BrowserRidget.bindUIControl(BrowserRidget.java:69)
	at org.eclipse.riena.ui.ridgets.swt.AbstractSWTWidgetRidget.setUIControl(AbstractSWTWidgetRidget.java:271)
	at org.eclipse.riena.ui.ridgets.uibinding.DefaultBindingManager.bindRidget(DefaultBindingManager.java:194)
	at org.eclipse.riena.ui.ridgets.uibinding.DefaultBindingManager.updateBindings(DefaultBindingManager.java:184)
	at org.eclipse.riena.ui.ridgets.uibinding.DefaultBindingManager.bind(DefaultBindingManager.java:156)
	at org.eclipse.riena.ui.ridgets.swt.uibinding.AbstractViewBindingDelegate.bind(AbstractViewBindingDelegate.java:100)
	at org.eclipse.riena.navigation.ui.swt.views.SubModuleView.bind(SubModuleView.java:166)
	at org.eclipse.riena.navigation.ui.swt.views.SubModuleView.doBinding(SubModuleView.java:651)
	at org.eclipse.riena.navigation.ui.swt.views.SubModuleView.createPartControl(SubModuleView.java:236)

This error is not reproducible with Windows (no WebKit).

Comment 1 Nobody - feel free to take it

2012-05-15 12:33:34 EDT

I could only reproduce this on Ubuntu + Webkit.
Passing null or an empty String to the Browser.setUrl(...) methods is not valid since it is not a valid URL (the constructor new URL(string) will fail. If a blank page should be shown in the browser widget, the String to pass is "about:blank". This works with IE, Mozilla and Webkit.