Re: Why is this assertion being triggered?
Patricia Shanahan wrote:
thebad1 wrote:
Hi,
I have a strange error, that I can reproduce using jre1.5.0_09 or
jdk1.5.0_10 on winXP using eclipse debugger, in Netbeans 5.0 and using
javac/java command line.
I have this line in my code;
assert !Double.isNaN(tRating) : "!Double.isNaN(tRating), tRating="+
tRating;
and it is triggering the following AssertionError.
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.AssertionError:
!Double.isNaN(tRating), tRating=3.6119877801230094
at packages.Netflix.predictRating(Netflix.java:250)
at packages.Netflix.train(Netflix.java:170)
at packages.Netflix.main(Netflix.java:122)
At the point the Error is triggered in eclipse, I can inspect the
values, and it is clear that the value is a valid double. However if I
drop to frame and rerun the code, the pointer passes the assertion with
no problem a second time. Also if I rerun the code again, the assertion
is triggered but with a different value of tRating.
Given those symptoms, I would look VERY closely at whatever is supposed
to synchronize accesses and updates to tRating.
It is behaving exactly like a variable that is being updated from at
least one other thread while the assertion executes, so that it is a NaN
when the test is done, but something else when it is converted to String
for concatenation.
Patricia
I would also put the value of "!Double.isNaN(tRating)" in the output of
the assertion, make sure that THAT is evaluating the way you expect:
assert !Double.isNaN(tRating) : "!Double.isNaN(tRating)=" +
!Double.isNaN(tRating), tRating="+ tRating;
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