Details
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Bug
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Status: Resolved
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Major
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Resolution: Fixed
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Apache Flex 4.8 (parity release)
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None
Description
In some very specific cases ConstraintLayout will throw a null pointer error when a component inside it is playing a transition. I tried a few things and found out that:
- parseConstraints() creates a new rowBaselines Vector (or empties it if it exists)
- some other process calls clearConstraintCache() in the middle of the execution of parseConstraints(), setting rowBaselines back to null
- parseConstraints() calls parseElementConstraints() which tries to access elements in rowBaselines and throws the error
I know very little about how Effects and Transitions work, so the "some other process" part is a bit of a mistery to me.
Steps to reproduce:
- Compile and run Main.mxml
- Select the first item in the list
- Click on the list and, before the resize transition finishes, click on it again.
Workaround: subclass ConstraintLayout (or FormItemLayout), override `measure()`, put a try/cacth block around it and use this custom layout. Not exactly pretty but it works without apparent side effects.
Quick fix (but probably not the ideal solution): just test whether rowBaselines exists before trying to access it in ConstraintLayout.parseElementConstraints().