Subj : Errors tryign to reply to a poll message
To   : Nightfox
From : Digital Man
Date : Wed Nov 01 2017 03:40 pm

  Re: Errors tryign to reply to a poll message
  By: Digital Man to Nightfox on Wed Nov 01 2017 03:24 pm

 >   Re: Errors tryign to reply to a poll message
 >   By: Nightfox to Digital Man on Wed Nov 01 2017 01:01 pm
 >
 >  > Hi DM,
 >
 >  > With my JavaScript message reader, I've noticed I'm getting a weird error
 >  > when I try to reply to a poll message.  My reader allows voting, but I
 >  > wanted to also reply to the poster of a poll message with some comments.
 >  > My script calls bbs.post_msg() to post the reply, and I pass it the
 >  > sub-board code, reply mode, and message header.  On that line, I get the
 >  > following error:
 >
 >  > Error: can't convert 2147483648 to an integer
 >
 >  > Just before that line, I tried having my script output the sub-board
 >  > code, reply mode, and message header properties.  The number that it was
 >  > outputting appears to be the auxattr property of the message header.  But
 >  > when my script outputs that information, it generates a different error
 >  > when it calls bbs.post_msg():
 >  > Error: line 865 js_ParseMsgHeaderObject js_msgbase.c JS_GetPrivate failed
 >
 >  > So it seems something odd is going on if it gets a different error just
 >  > by outputting some information before calling that function.  The
 >  > sub-board code looks right, and the reply mode value it's using is 64.
 >  > I'm not sure what might be wrong.  My reader doesn't have a problem
 >  > replying to normal messages; this is only happening when replying to a
 >  > poll message.
 >
 > Have you tried it with a different poll?
 >
 > I suspect the problem is with a poll whose results are "closed" (not visible
 > until the poll has been closed), as that sets bit 31 of the auxattr header
 > field and there's an issue converting that in JS.

I just committed what I hope is a fix. Please try it and let me know. I suspect
this problem only occurs with polls whose results-visibility are set to
"closed".

                                            digital man

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