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VisualEditor: Fix "Uncaught Type: Cannot call method 'attr' of undefined"
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Description

When VisualEditor deactivates itself after Parsoid fails, this exceptions thrown because the property never got set.

ve.init.mw.ViewPageTarget.prototype.deactivate = function(override) {
  if (..) {
    if (..) {
      this.deactivating = true;
      if (ve.msg('accesskey-save') !== '-' && ve.msg('accesskey-save') !== '') {
        this.elementsThatHadOurAccessKey.attr('accesskey', ..);
                      ^

ve.init.mw.ViewPageTarget.prototype.setupToolbarButtons = function () {

..
  if (ve.msg('accesskey-save') !== '-' && ve.msg('accesskey-save') !== '') {
    this.elementsThatHadOurAccessKey = $( .. );

The code in deactivate() shouldn't be repeating conditions like that as they're no longer semantically relevant, and in this case even incorrect. Instead the top one (which usually runs after setupToolbarButtons) should limit its interest to elementsThatHadOurAccessKey itself which we either set to null or to a jQuery object.


Version: unspecified
Severity: major

Details

Reference
bz62329

Event Timeline

bzimport raised the priority of this task from to Medium.Nov 22 2014, 3:05 AM
bzimport set Reference to bz62329.

Change 117224 had a related patch set uploaded by Krinkle:
mw.ViewPageTarget: Check elementsThatHadOurAccessKey before accessing

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/117224

Change 117224 merged by jenkins-bot:
mw.ViewPageTarget: Check elementsThatHadOurAccessKey before accessing

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/117224

Change 117228 had a related patch set uploaded by Alex Monk:
mw.ViewPageTarget: Check elementsThatHadOurAccessKey before accessing

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/117228

Change 117230 had a related patch set uploaded by Jforrester:
mw.ViewPageTarget: Check elementsThatHadOurAccessKey before accessing

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/117230

Change 117230 merged by jenkins-bot:
mw.ViewPageTarget: Check elementsThatHadOurAccessKey before accessing

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/117230

Change 117228 merged by jenkins-bot:
mw.ViewPageTarget: Check elementsThatHadOurAccessKey before accessing

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/117228