Question

My Javascript program is creating “Object already exists” errors on both Google Chrome and on Firefox. What kind of mistake could trigger this error message? I am having a hard time debugging this without knowing what the error means.

Answer 1

As per your comment:

All JavaScript is ‘open source’ (although it can be minified etc), so you can simply search for that exact string. The only result I got that is used as an error thrown is this: http://uxebu.com/blog/2011/04/27/creating-a-persistent-dojo-object-store/.

store.add = function(object, options){
    // Get the id
    var id = options && options.id || object.id;

    // Check if something exists under the given
    // id -- StorageJS always returns null when
    // there's no data for a certain key.
    if(storage.get(id) !== null){
        throw new Error("Object already exists"); // <-- did it somehow get here?
    }

    // We're save to go now! So hand over the
    // request to the put() method.
    store.put(object, options);
};