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  1. Magnolia UI
  2. MGNLUI-2742

Exceptions on using generic fields with extends on field level

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    • Icon: Bug Bug
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Icon: Major Major
    • 5.2.4
    • 5.2.2
    • dialogs

      If you use the extends mechanism for generic fields (see example-config.png), the ConfiguredDialogDefinitionManager throws a ClassCastException.

      14-03-13 10:46:40 ERROR AUTHOR[Thread-22]info.magnolia.ui.dialog.registry.ConfiguredDialogDefinitionManager: Unable to create provider for dialog [test-module:generic/extendedField]
      java.lang.ClassCastException: info.magnolia.ui.form.field.definition.SelectFieldDefinition cannot be cast to info.magnolia.ui.dialog.definition.ConfiguredFormDialogDefinition 
        at info.magnolia.ui.dialog.registry.ConfiguredDialogDefinitionProvider.<init>(ConfiguredDialogDefinitionProvider.java:58)
        at info.magnolia.ui.dialog.registry.ConfiguredDialogDefinitionManager.createProvider(ConfiguredDialogDefinitionManager.java:117)
        at info.magnolia.ui.dialog.registry.ConfiguredDialogDefinitionManager$1.visit(ConfiguredDialogDefinitionManager.java:90)
        at info.magnolia.jcr.util.NodeUtil.visit(NodeUtil.java:654)
        at info.magnolia.jcr.util.NodeUtil.visit(NodeUtil.java:656)
        at info.magnolia.ui.dialog.registry.ConfiguredDialogDefinitionManager.reload(ConfiguredDialogDefinitionManager.java:82)
        at info.magnolia.cms.util.ModuleConfigurationObservingManager.reload(ModuleConfigurationObservingManager.java:112)
      

      Reason is that it tries to registrate the generic field as dialog definition. The prior check on the node is to weak. So it is useless. An instanceof check in info.magnolia.ui.dialog.registry.ConfiguredDialogDefinitionManager#createProvider would make more sense.

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              jsimak Jaroslav Simak
              frank.sommer Frank Sommer
              Oliver Emke, Rainer Blumenthal
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