console.debug fails when dealing with XML node lists in IE

[James Burke]

See attached use case. Probably affects other console.* methods. Basic issue:

dojo.xhrGet() for an XML file. Do a nodeList = response.getElementsByTagName("tagname") on the returned XML document. Try to use console.debug(nodeList), and an error happens.

It happens both in the djConfig.isDebug = true or false. An initial debug in a isDebug = false case led to bootstrap.js, around line 99 where this call happens:

console.log(a.join(" "));

Something about the array join call, when it tries to do a toString maybe on the XML node list, that has problems in IE?

Anyway, not sure how to get around this. I am not sure if we can detect a "type" of object in this case for IE and then either skip the object or use a string placeholder for it.

Note that doing an alert() on the node list gives [object]. Not sure the difference between that and what happens with the array join.

[James Burke]

Test HTML page. Place in dojo/tests/_base folder

[James Burke]

XML file for the HTML test page to fetch. Place in dojo/tests/_base

[dylan]

Bryan, is this an issue with dojo/request? If not, we can resolve as fixed. If so, we should probably mark as wontfix since we won't support older IE for Dojo 2.0 (unless it's also an issue with IE 9 or 10)

[bill]

Bumping this ticket since we are past the deadline for the 1.9RC. The fix can be put into 1.9.1 too, if desired.

[dylan]

Closing as patchwelcome. If this is still relevant in modern IE or Edge, and someone wants to review and verify this for either Dojo 1.x's dojo/request or Dojo 2's dojo-core/request, we would be interested.