[FLEX-35140] uncaught exception on missing parens

• Type: Bug
• Status: Resolved
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: Apache FalconJX 0.7.0
• Fix Version/s: Apache FalconJX 0.8.0
• Component/s: Falcon
• Assignee: Alex Harui
• Reporter: Harbs
• Created: 09/Oct/16 10:24
• Updated: 10/Oct/16 04:42
• Resolved: 10/Oct/16 04:42

Description

The following code generates (correctly) generates an error (because it's missing the parenthesis in the function definition):
public function parseCard8:int
{
return this.parseByte();
}

When running compc from the command line (using ant) I get the following error:
Syntax error: Expected PAREN_OPEN but got ':'

When building in Flash Builder, I get the following (unhelpful) error:
java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.flex.compiler.parsing.IASToken$ASTokenKind cannot be cast to java.lang.String

I'm assuming PAREN_OPEN needs to be converted to a string: "(".