[Babeldoc-devel] New User: Re: Babeldoc bug

[Bruce M. <br...@mc...>]

On Tuesday 29 April 2003 03:52 am, Ken Geis wrote:
> Hi.  I'm working with Babeldoc a little, and my company is planning on
> using it in a commercial product.  Yes, we understand the GPL, and we
> plan to donate as much code as possible.  My first day working with it,
> I found a nasty bug.
>
> In com.babeldoc.core.Named, the toString function reads
>
>    public String toString() {
>      return new ToStringBuilder(this).
>          append("name", this).toString();
>    }
>
> This results in an infinite loop and stack overflow error.  It should
> clearly be
>
>    public String toString() {
>      return new ToStringBuilder(this).
>          append("name", name).toString();
>    }
>
>
> Ken Geis