Native Development

[simon_hain]

I spent some fruitless hours yesterday hunting down a segfault.

As far as i have understood this it is similar to a nullpointerexception in java.

I have narrowed it down to a few lines of code - when i comment them out the segfault is gone - but i have no clue why it occurs there, as i check every pointer i use for being null.

When i use the debugger, it points to a setter with QString, with the message

"QString:perator=() at 0x..."

Not sure if the code is helpful, but i just take the chance:

objectValue is a QString, setFormula is a simple setter

qDebug() << "enabledformula value: " << objectValue;								
DataServiceFormula* dsFormula = buttonInput->getEnabledFormula();
qDebug() << "after retrieving formula";
if (!dsFormula) {
	qDebug() << "formula is null";
	dsFormula = new DataServiceFormula();
}
qDebug() << "setting formula";
QString formulaString = objectValue.toLower().trimmed();
qDebug() << "to " << formulaString;
dsFormula->setFormula(formulaString);
qDebug() << "set formula successful";

 And the debugger creates this output:

Debug: enabledformula value:  "C1" 
Debug: after retrieving formula 
Debug: setting formula 
Debug: to  "c1" 

 After that comes the SIGSEGV

Any general ideas how i could find out why it occurs?

[BGmot]

To try to answer this we need to know declaration and definition of

dsFormula->setFormula()

and dsFormula class itself. I does not look like it is some standard class.

[simon_hain]

it is a very simple bean class.

header:

/*
 * DataServiceFormula.hpp
 *
 *  Created on: 06.09.2012
 *      Author: sha
 */

#ifndef DATASERVICEFORMULA_HPP_
#define DATASERVICEFORMULA_HPP_

#include "DataServiceCondition.hpp"
#include <QHash>
#include <QString>
#include <qobject.h>

class DataServiceFormula: public QObject {
	Q_OBJECT

private:
	QString formula;
	QHash<QString, DataServiceCondition*> conditions;
	QString errorText;

public:
	enum DataServiceFormulaType {
		DataServiceFormulaTypeMandatory = 1,
		DataServiceFormulaTypeReadonly = 2,
		DataServiceFormulaTypeVisible = 3,
		DataServiceFormulaTypeEnabled = 4,
		DataServiceFormulaTypeValidation = 5
	};
	QHash<QString, DataServiceCondition*> getConditions() const;
	void setConditions(QHash<QString, DataServiceCondition*> conditions);
	QString getFormula() const;
	void setFormula(QString formula);
	QString getErrorText() const;
	void setErrorText(QString errorText);
};

#endif /* DATASERVICEFORMULA_HPP_ */

 cpp:

/*
 * DataServiceFormula.cpp
 *
 *  Created on: 06.09.2012
 *      Author: sha
 */
#include "DataServiceFormula.hpp"
#include <QHash>
#include <QString>

QHash<QString, DataServiceCondition*> DataServiceFormula::getConditions() const {
	return conditions;
}

void DataServiceFormula::setConditions(QHash<QString, DataServiceCondition*> conditions) {
	this->conditions = conditions;
}

QString DataServiceFormula::getFormula() const {
	return formula;
}

QString DataServiceFormula::getErrorText() const {
	return errorText;
}

void DataServiceFormula::setErrorText(QString errorText) {
	this->errorText = errorText;
}

void DataServiceFormula::setFormula(QString formula) {
	this->formula = formula;
}

[borceg]

First thing that comes to my mind is variable shadowin issue, but maybe I'm wrong

void DataServiceFormula::setFormula(QString fParam) {
	this->formula = fParam;
}

[simon_hain]

the this-> accessor takes care of that, i use it in a lot of other classes.
i guess the whole getter/setter thing is a java obsession anyhow, but as long as it works...

[BGmot]

so far everything looks correct. (by the way you can completely remove this-> in your clas member functions).

Now we need to see how DataServiceFormula object is constructed/created.

DataServiceFormula* dsFormula = buttonInput->getEnabledFormula();

can you post buttonInput->getEnabledFormula() implementation and related stuff please?

[simon_hain]

on the first iteration the value of "getEnabledFormula()" is NULL, in this case i create a new object and set it.
Seems i had removed the call from the code snippet above, below the new call i set it on the buttonInput.

There is no other call in the code, except for serialization/deserialization in the cache, but this is never executed as the code crashes before.

[BGmot]

where is this 'below'? -)

[simon_hain]

Here is the part again. It is called in a loop where i iterate attributes from the webservice.

objectValue is a QString, populated from the soap response.

qDebug() << "enabledformula value: " << objectValue;
if (!buttonInput){									
   qDebug() << "buttonInput is null";
}								
DataServiceFormula* dsFormula = buttonInput->getEnabledFormula();
qDebug() << "after retrieving formula";
if (!dsFormula) {									
   qDebug() << "creating new formula";								
   dsFormula = new DataServiceFormula();
   buttonInput->setEnabledFormula(dsFormula);
}
qDebug() << "setting formula";
QString formulaString = objectValue.toLower().trimmed();
qDebug() << "to " << formulaString;							dsFormula->setFormula(formulaString);
qDebug() << "set formula successful";

 And the console output when i run it:

Debug: enabledformula value:  "C1" 
Debug: after retrieving formula 
Debug: setting formula 
Debug: to  "c1" 

Process 80048308 (bb10) terminated SIGSEGV code=1 fltno=11 ip=78e8f182(/base/usr/lib/qt4/lib/libQtCore.so.4.8.4@_ZN7QStringaSERKS_+0x19) mapaddr=0008f182. ref=6f63636d

[BGmot]

hope somebody else will be able to help you. Good luck with hunting.