http://bugs.orocos.org/show_bug.cgi?id=845

Summary: UpdateProperties complains on 2.3.0
Product: RTT
Version: 2.0-mainline
Platform: All
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: enhancement
Priority: P3
Component: Real-Time Toolkit (RTT)
AssignedTo: orocos-dev [..] ...
ReportedBy: paul [dot] chavent [..] ...
CC: orocos-dev [..] ...
Estimated Hours: 0.0

Created attachment 664
--> http://bugs.orocos.org/attachment.cgi?id=664
The test case.

Hi.

I join a test case that instanciate two components in the deployer. The first
one load a property in the deployer conf file, the other use UpdateProperties.

The update works, but there is an error trace :

[ ERROR ][PropertyLoader:configure] Can not initialize Property from bar:
incompatible type (string).

The problem is in PropertyComposition.cpp (new in 2.3.0) at line ~20 at the
test of the property bag. If the test fails, it is correctly handled but the
error message is printed.

I think that instead of calling "Property::Property( base::PropertyBase*
source)", we could call "Property<T>& Property::operator=( base::PropertyBase*
source )". So i suggest a patch too.

I wonder if this affectation operator is ever called in any code of the
toolchain ...