Disallowing field name same as table name.
Change-Id: I4b5d822cc4eda975949d1b7cf33674c5bbf9d4b1
Tested: on Linux.
diff --git a/src/idl_parser.cpp b/src/idl_parser.cpp
index a3a72f6..5c7a69f 100644
--- a/src/idl_parser.cpp
+++ b/src/idl_parser.cpp
@@ -601,6 +601,10 @@
CheckedError Parser::ParseField(StructDef &struct_def) {
std::string name = attribute_;
+
+ if (name == struct_def.name)
+ return Error("field name can not be the same as table/struct name");
+
std::vector<std::string> dc = doc_comment_;
EXPECT(kTokenIdentifier);
EXPECT(':');
diff --git a/tests/test.cpp b/tests/test.cpp
index 732806d..26181d2 100644
--- a/tests/test.cpp
+++ b/tests/test.cpp
@@ -1038,6 +1038,7 @@
TestError("table X { Y:[[int]]; }", "nested vector");
TestError("table X { Y:1; }", "illegal type");
TestError("table X { Y:int; Y:int; }", "field already");
+ TestError("table X { X:int; }", "same as table");
TestError("struct X { Y:string; }", "only scalar");
TestError("struct X { Y:int (deprecated); }", "deprecate");
TestError("union Z { X } table X { Y:Z; } root_type X; { Y: {}, A:1 }",