SetPropValue: value as string does not work for *Chars and *Booleans
<h3><details><summary>Original Reporter info from Mantis: <small>silvioprog</small></summary><small>
- **Reporter name:** silvioprog
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## Description:
Hello,
Trying to set the value '#0' (without quote, just for skip mantis) to a property Char and a 'True' to a Boolean property, I got some errors (logs in attached) in function 'TypInfo.SetPropValue'. But I did the same test in Delphi XE 7 and also in Delphi 7 (after some changes in my demo, shure), and it worked fine. So I decided to test other property types looking for more errors.
I attached a small project simulating a test-case, testing the function 'TypInfo.SetPropValue' with commum primitive types in FPC and Delphi.
Please see the LOG_*.TXT files, it has the comparition between FPC (trunk) and Delphi (XE7), both tests done in 32 and 64 CPUs.
Is this bug or a normal behaviour of FPC RTTI? If you confirm it as but, I can try to send a patch to fix that.
## Steps to reproduce:
Just test attached test.
## Additional information:
It seems that current FPC SetPropValue looks like Delphi 7, but IMHO this function could follow the new Delphi implementation, including new unicode support. BTW, if anyone confirm it as bug, I can try to make a patch and send it via bugtracker.
I haven't tested function GetPropValue yet. And I haven't tested in Linux, but I believe that this problem occurs there too.
Just for check the difference between currently TypInfo of FPC and TypInfo of XE 7, bellow the two logs generated by my previous attached demo:
\------- FPC -------<br/>
CPUX86
STRINGS:
MyString empty: OK<br/>
MyString: OK<br/>
MyAnsiString: OK<br/>
MyWideString: OK<br/>
MyUnicodeString: OK<br/>
MyShortString: OK
CHARS:
EVariantError: Invalid variant type cast<br/>
MyChar null: Fail<br/>
EVariantError: Invalid variant type cast<br/>
MyChar: Fail<br/>
EVariantError: Invalid variant type cast<br/>
MyAnsiChar: Fail<br/>
EVariantError: Invalid variant type cast<br/>
MyWideChar a: Fail<br/>
EVariantError: Invalid variant type cast<br/>
MyWideChar a: Fail<br/>
EVariantError: Invalid variant type cast<br/>
MyUnicodeChar a: Fail<br/>
EVariantError: Invalid variant type cast<br/>
MyUnicodeChar a: Fail
INTEGERS:
MyInteger zero: OK<br/>
MyByte <: OK<br/>
MyByte >: OK<br/>
MyShortInt <: OK<br/>
MyShortInt >: OK<br/>
MySmallInt <: OK<br/>
MySmallInt >: OK<br/>
MyWord <: OK<br/>
MyWord >: OK<br/>
MyInteger <: OK<br/>
MyInteger >: OK
INT64S:
MyInt64 zero: OK<br/>
MyCardinal <: OK<br/>
MyCardinal >: OK<br/>
MyLongInt <: OK<br/>
MyLongInt >: OK<br/>
MyLongWord <: OK<br/>
MyLongWord >: OK<br/>
MyInt64 <: OK<br/>
MyInt64 >: OK<br/>
MyQWord <: OK<br/>
MyQWord >: OK
BOOLEANS:
MyBoolean f: OK<br/>
MyBoolean t: OK<br/>
ERangeError: Range error<br/>
MyByteBool f: Fail<br/>
ERangeError: Range error<br/>
MyByteBool t: Fail<br/>
ERangeError: Range error<br/>
MyWordBool f: Fail<br/>
ERangeError: Range error<br/>
MyWordBool t: Fail<br/>
ERangeError: Range error<br/>
MyLongBool f: Fail<br/>
ERangeError: Range error<br/>
MyLongBool t: Fail
FLOATS:
MyFloat zero: OK<br/>
MySingle <: OK<br/>
MySingle >: OK<br/>
MyExtended <: OK<br/>
MyExtended >: OK<br/>
MyCurrency <: OK<br/>
MyCurrency >: OK<br/>
MyFloat <: OK<br/>
MyFloat >: OK<br/>
MyComp <: OK<br/>
MyComp >: OK
ENUMS:
MyEnum <: OK<br/>
MyEnum >: OK
SETS:
MySet <: OK<br/>
MySet >: OK<br/>
MySet <: OK<br/>
MySet >: OK<br/>
MySet <: OK<br/>
MySet >: OK<br/>
MySet <: OK<br/>
MySet >: OK<br/>
\------- FPC -------
\------- XE 7 -------<br/>
CPUX86
STRINGS:
MyString empty: OK<br/>
MyString: OK<br/>
MyAnsiString: OK<br/>
MyWideString: OK<br/>
MyUnicodeString: OK<br/>
MyShortString: OK
CHARS:
MyChar null: OK<br/>
MyChar: OK<br/>
MyAnsiChar: OK<br/>
MyWideChar a: OK<br/>
MyWideChar a: OK<br/>
MyUnicodeChar a: OK<br/>
MyUnicodeChar a: OK
INTEGERS:
MyInteger zero: OK<br/>
MyByte <: OK<br/>
MyByte >: OK<br/>
MyShortInt <: OK<br/>
MyShortInt >: OK<br/>
MySmallInt <: OK<br/>
MySmallInt >: OK<br/>
MyWord <: OK<br/>
MyWord >: OK<br/>
MyInteger <: OK<br/>
MyInteger >: OK
INT64S:
MyInt64 zero: OK<br/>
MyCardinal <: OK<br/>
MyCardinal >: OK<br/>
MyLongInt <: OK<br/>
MyLongInt >: OK<br/>
MyLongWord <: OK<br/>
MyLongWord >: OK<br/>
MyInt64 <: OK<br/>
MyInt64 >: OK
BOOLEANS:
MyBoolean f: OK<br/>
MyBoolean t: OK<br/>
MyByteBool f: OK<br/>
MyByteBool t: OK<br/>
MyWordBool f: OK<br/>
MyWordBool t: OK<br/>
MyLongBool f: OK<br/>
MyLongBool t: OK
FLOATS:
MyFloat zero: OK<br/>
MySingle <: OK<br/>
MySingle >: OK<br/>
MyExtended <: OK<br/>
MyExtended >: OK<br/>
MyCurrency <: OK<br/>
MyCurrency >: OK<br/>
MyFloat <: OK<br/>
MyFloat >: OK<br/>
MyComp <: OK<br/>
MyComp >: OK
ENUMS:
MyEnum <: OK<br/>
MyEnum >: OK
SETS:
MySet <: OK<br/>
MySet >: OK<br/>
MySet <: OK<br/>
MySet >: OK<br/>
MySet <: OK<br/>
MySet >: OK<br/>
MySet <: OK<br/>
MySet >: OK<br/>
\------- XE 7 -------
## Mantis conversion info:
- **Mantis ID:** 28290
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