Ah, I overlooked that as well ;-)
This could happen by STON input as follows
{ ... } : null
with everything after the closing } being junk from a previous file that you
overwrote with shorter contents.
Try deleting or truncating your (existing) file first, for example using
#ensureDelete.
> On 11 Feb 2021, at 18:07, <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk> <pe...@pbkresearch.co.uk>
> wrote:
>
> David
> I think you are misreading the debugger display. The bit you are missing is
> the last few characters in the evaluation display, after the closing
> parenthesis. They should not be there if it is displaying a dictionary.
> Evidently the variable 'aDict' is in fact an association whose key is the
> dictionary and whose value is nil.
>
> I can't see where it goes from there, but I think you need to look more
> closely at the preceding line, FAOEntry>>getEntryObjectFrom:, and see what
> exactly it does with the junk in your .dat file.
>
> HTH
>
> Peter Kenny
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Pennington <da...@totallyobjects.com>
> Sent: 11 February 2021 16:46
> To: Any question about pharo is welcome <pharo-users@lists.pharo.org>
> Subject: [Pharo-users] Re: Problem with Dictionary and Associations
>
> Thank you for that but it doesn’t resolve my problem. Why does the stack move
> to an Association when doing the access to the dictionary? It is the
> Association indexing that fails as it won’t allow #entryAmount as a key.
>
> If I inspect the following code (STON fromString: result ) in the line ^ self
> makeObject: (STON fromString: result ) I get an Association. Why don’t I get
> a Dictionary. I did two days ago when all of this was working perfectly and
> we were happily matching the Pharo Seaside display to our bank account :=)
>
> David
>
>> On 11 Feb 2021, at 16:39, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:
>>
>> I can parse the file data you provided:
>>
>> STON fromString:
>> '{#entryName:''Housekeeping'',#entryDate:Date[''2021-02-25Z''],#transactionID:''2021022501'',#entryAmount:-400/1s8,#entryCategory:''Housekeeping'',#entryDescription:''Housekeeping'',#match:nil}ousekeeping'',#match:nil}'
>>
>>
>> "a Dictionary(#entryAmount->-400.00000000s8 #entryCategory->'Housekeeping'
>> #entryDate->25 February 2021 #entryDescription->'Housekeeping'
>> #entryName->'Housekeeping' #match->nil #transactionID->'2021022501' )"
>>
>> (BTW, this is STON not JSON).
>>
>> What I do see in the input is junk after the last }
>>
>> That can happen when you overwrite an existing file with shorter content.
>> You should truncate such a file.
>>
>> From your screenshot I can see nothing wrong, #entryAmount seems an existing
>> key in aDict, that should just work.
>>
>>> On 11 Feb 2021, at 16:33, David Pennington <da...@totallyobjects.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I attach a couple of screen shots and a file containing the item that I am
>>> trying to open. What else can I supply? This has been working for a couple
>>> of weeks and suddenly doesn’t work. I save the JSON and then load it back
>>> again. I enclose a file with the JSON as contents. As you can see from the
>>> screenshot, the debugger shows it as a dictionary but the execution path
>>> takes it to an Association which is what I don’t understand.
>>>
>>> <stack.rtf><20210225 01><screenshot.png>
>>>
>>>> On 10 Feb 2021, at 19:17, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Hi David,
>>>>
>>>>> On 10 Feb 2021, at 19:18, da...@totallyobjects.com wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> I am using STON to objects out to disk. Up to two days ago, I was reading
>>>>> them in as Dictionaries and converting to objects from there. All of a
>>>>> sudden yesterday morning, I got an error saying that the association is
>>>>> only indexable with integers. Even so, I don't seem to be able to access
>>>>> the contents.
>>>>>
>>>>> Fistly, any ideas why this has changed and secondly, any ideas how to fix
>>>>> it?
>>>>>
>>>>> David
>>>>> Totally Objects
>>>>>
>>>>> Sent from my Huawei tablet
>>>>
>>>> I am afraid I need more information.
>>>>
>>>> Could you create a reproducible case ?
>>>> Do you have a stack trace ?
>>>>
>>>> In any case, STON is a text format, that can be edited (in most cases,
>>>> shared or circular references being hard to edit by hand).
>>>>
>>>> Sven
>>>
