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bug #64419: isequal fails for old-style @audioplayer, @audiorecorder objects

Submitter:  Rik <rik5>
Submitted:  Wed 12 Jul 2023 06:38:52 PM UTC
   
 
Category:  Octave Function Severity:  3 - Normal
Priority:  3 - Low Item Group:  Unexpected Error or Warning
Status:  Confirmed Assigned to:  None
Originator Name:  Open/Closed:  * Open
Release:  * dev Operating System:  * Any
Fixed Release:  None Planned Release:  None
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Fri 14 Jul 2023 12:26:28 AM UTC, comment #2: 

Well, the cause of this is peculiar to the coding of @audioplayer and @audiorecorder.  Instead of storing property names and values in a struct which is then made into an object with class(), the constructor for these objects creates a struct with a single field which is effectively a pointer to a C++ object.  Hence, calling struct() on the object does return the correct thing.  However, unlike the @ftp class which does something similar in storing a pointer, the audioplayer classes store something that always looks like 0 when displayed and is probably something like a C++ octave_class value.

I don't care to debug this further.

Rik <rik5>
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Thu 13 Jul 2023 12:56:20 AM UTC, comment #1: 

The issue is traceable to the way isequal handles objects.  The function uses


s = builtin ("struct", obj);


to convert an object to a struct.  For classdef objects this returns a struct where all properties (including read-only, etc.) are fieldnames along with their value.

However, for old-style class objects this seems to return a confused struct object which, when indexed, reverts back to a class object.


octave:2> a = audiorecorder ();
octave:3> typeinfo (a)
ans = class
octave:4> class (a)
ans = audiorecorder
octave:5> s = builtin ("struct", a)
s =

  scalar structure containing the fields:

    recorder = 0

octave:7> typeinfo (s)
ans = scalar struct
octave:8> class (s)
ans = struct
octave:9> y = s.recorder
error: struct: additional arguments must occur as "field", VALUE pairs
error: called from
    __get_properties__ at line 36 column 13
    disp at line 35 column 3
y = audiorecorder object with properties:

octave:10> typeinfo (y)
ans = audiorecorder
octave:11> class (y)
ans = audiorecorder


I think the issue needs to be resolved in struct().  Given that the call


obj = class (STRUCT, "classname")


creates an old-style class object, it should be relatively easy to revert back to a struct.

Adding jwe to the CC list because this is plain-old weird.

Rik <rik5>
Group administrator
Wed 12 Jul 2023 06:38:52 PM UTC, original submission:  

Code to reproduce:


octave:2> r = audiorecorder ();
octave:3> r2 = r;
octave:4> isequal (r, r2)
error: isequal: Impossible to reach code.  File a bug report.
error: called from
    isequal at line 182 column 9
    isequal at line 137 column 18


Per Octave's instructions, I'm filing a bug report.

Note that new-style classdef objects do work.


octave:7> m = containers.Map ();
octave:8> m2 = m;
octave:9> isequal (m, m2)
ans = 1


Apparently this has been present for a very long time because I went and tried Octave-4.4.1 and it has the same error.

Rik <rik5>
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    2023-07-14 rik5 Priority5 - Normal 3 - Low
        Summaryisequal fails for old-style @class objects isequal fails for old-style @audioplayer, @audiorecorder objects
    2023-07-13 rik5 Carbon-Copy- Added jwe

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