[QBS] Probe properties not working?

[Jake Thomas Petroules]

It appears that reading Probe properties works fine when inside a Properties section, but not a Group. My mistake!

Jake Petroules
Petroules Corporation (www.petroules.com)
Email: jake.petroules at petroules.com
Telephone: +1 (970) 587-3821

On Mar 5, 2013, at 4:12 PM, Jake Thomas Petroules <jake.petroules at petroules.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
> 
> It seems to me that the properties of Probe items don't get set. For example, if I run this file through QBS:
> 
> import qbs.base 1.0
> import qbs.probes as Probes
> import qbs.fileinfo as FileInfo
> import "<path to qbs>/share/qbs/imports/qbs/probes/utils.js" as Utils
> 
> CppApplication {
>    Depends { name: "cpp" }
> 	name: "foo"
> 	files: "main.c"
> 
> 	Probes.PathProbe {
> 		id: foo
> 		platformPaths: [
> 		    "~/Downloads",
> 		    "/Users/jakepetroules/Downloads"
> 		]
> 
> 		names: [ "test.txt" ]
> 	}
> 
> 	Group {
> 		name: {
> 			print("found: " + foo.found)
> 			print("path: " + foo.path)
> 			print("filePath: " + foo.filePath)
> 			return "bar"
> 		}
> 
> 		files: "dummy.txt"
> 	}
> }
> 
> I receive the following output:
> 
> Loading project
> found: false
> path: undefined
> filePath: undefined
> Resolving project
> Building
> generating PkgInfo
> generating Info.plist
> compiling main.c
> linking foo
> generating app bundle
> Build done.
> 
> /Users/jakepetroules/Downloads/test.txt DOES exist and FileInfo.exists() does return true, which I tested by inserting debug print() statements into PathProbe.qbs. So, why are the properties undefined as shown in the output?
> 
> I'd open a bug report but I'm not sure yet whether this is a bug or if I've simply done something wrong.
> 
> Jake Petroules
> Petroules Corporation (www.petroules.com)
> Email: jake.petroules at petroules.com
> 
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