JDK-7063739 : FF: applet.status has ambiguous type
  • Type: Bug
  • Component: deploy
  • Sub-Component: deployment_toolkit
  • Affected Version: 7-client
  • Priority: P4
  • Status: Resolved
  • Resolution: Fixed
  • OS: generic
  • CPU: generic
  • Submitted: 2011-07-07
  • Updated: 2011-09-22
  • Resolved: 2011-09-06
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Description
window.alert(applet.status) reports "class NPObject Ambiguous member class" in the Firefox.
Works ok (reports number) in IE

applet.status() reports number in FF.

Would be good to improve field access.
Comments
EVALUATION I guess that's because it treated it as method. I have being advocate we should implement status as read-only property, not method. That is, don't support applet.status().
23-08-2011
EVALUATION Ambiguos class is reported because we define both property and method functions on "status" object. This is probably ok. But may be we can improve default conversion logic to return value instead of type? I.e. why would window.alert(applet.status) show type and not number?
22-08-2011