ConnectionRequest fails with iOS newVM

Original issue 1258 created by codenameone on 2015-01-06T02:24:53.000Z:

What steps will reproduce the problem?

1. Add a new button to the UI
2. Add action event to the button as
   ConnectionRequest request = new ConnectionRequest();
   request.setUrl("http://www.google.com");
   request.setPost(false);
   NetworkManager.getInstance().addToQueueAndWait(request);
   Dialog.show("test", new String(request.getResponseData()), "OK", null);
3. Run on device and press the button

What is the expected output? What do you see instead?

• Expected to have dialog showed up with HTML contents.
• However, the dialog shows up with empty string. After a few tries it hangs and crashes.

What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

• iPhone 6+, iOS 8.1
• iPhone 4S, iOS 8.1.1

Please provide any additional information below.

• By adding "ios.newVM=false", it works perfectly.

Comment #1 originally posted by codenameone on 2015-01-08T13:40:52.000Z:

There was a bug with the initial code, this should work:

            try {
                Dialog.show("test", new String(request.getResponseData(), "US-ASCII"), "OK", null);
            } catch(Exception err) {
                Dialog.show("test", "Encoding Error: " + err, "OK", null);
                err.printStackTrace();
            }

Initially there was a bug with picking the encoding type, this is fixed now.

Comment #2 originally posted by codenameone on 2015-01-09T09:59:45.000Z:

Strange, I still cannot make it work after removing "ios.newVM=false".
I copied and applied your code directly. Now when I click on the button, it doesn't show up any dialog, but soon it hangs afterwards.

Again, adding the ios.newVM=false option works.

Same behavior for both on iPhone 6+ and iPhone 4S.

Comment #3 originally posted by codenameone on 2015-01-09T11:49:31.000Z:

That's a regression caused by a separate fix to synchronized methods, that's fixed too so the previous fix should now work as expected.

Comment #4 originally posted by codenameone on 2015-01-13T04:23:15.000Z:

Problem fixed. Thanks.

Comment #5 originally posted by codenameone on 2015-01-27T09:39:58.000Z:

Unfortunately this problem has come back...

Comment #6 originally posted by codenameone on 2015-01-27T18:10:09.000Z:

Tried it and it still works.

Comment #7 originally posted by codenameone on 2015-01-28T02:36:29.000Z:

Dialog.show("test", new String(request.getResponseData()), "OK", null);

doesn't work

Dialog.show("test", new String(request.getResponseData(), "US-ASCII"), "OK", null);

does work

No big deal. Thanks.