getOrDefault() not working in javascript?

JavaScript
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We have some code shared between javascript and JVM, but unit tests are run on JVM.

It seems Map.<Char,Char> . getOrDefault(‘a’,‘a’) returns null when ‘a’ is not in the map on javascript, but will return ‘a’ on the JVM. getOrDefault(‘a’,‘a’) ?: ‘a’ works as a fix on javascript, but perhaps only ‘get’ is available on this platform?

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Kotlin is a statically typed language, so if a method does not exists, compiler should report an error. You get an unexpected result on run time. This means that there’s an issue in Kotlin stdlib implementation for JavaScript.

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And here’s the issue: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/KT-17450

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I have searched in jar for PlatformDependent and it looks like only these two methods are market
Are there other stubs in kotlin.js ?

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Thanks Alexey. The issue explains things well.

And sorry for my imprecise wording. I do realise that if a method does not exist you should get an error, I was just postulating that the reality for now better to use ‘get’ with ?: in place of getOrDefault. I will pay more attention to wording :slight_smile: