From: Rico Tzschichholz <ricotz@ubuntu.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 15:02:29 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: girparser: Handle empty "<type/>" element and report an error
X-Git-Tag: 0.50.5~7
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=806373a21d46f8d5520bcc251b0104dde92abb24;p=thirdparty%2Fvala.git

girparser: Handle empty "<type/>" element and report an error
---

diff --git a/vala/valagirparser.vala b/vala/valagirparser.vala
index 02bc640ea..34a74e252 100644
--- a/vala/valagirparser.vala
+++ b/vala/valagirparser.vala
@@ -2748,7 +2748,16 @@ public class Vala.GirParser : CodeVisitor {
 			type_name = ctype;
 		}
 
-		DataType type = parse_type_from_gir_name (type_name, out no_array_length, out array_null_terminated, ctype);
+		DataType type;
+		if (type_name != null) {
+			type = parse_type_from_gir_name (type_name, out no_array_length, out array_null_terminated, ctype);
+		} else {
+			// empty <type/>
+			no_array_length = false;
+			array_null_terminated = false;
+			type = new InvalidType ();
+			Report.error (get_current_src (), "empty type element");
+		}
 
 		// type arguments / element types
 		while (current_token == MarkupTokenType.START_ELEMENT) {