editor.object.parent is undefined even when editor.object is a question inside a panel

JavaScript
var CustomTextEditorWidget = {
      render: function(editor, htmlElement) {
           var object = editor.object //This is where we have the problem 
      },
      validate: function(editor, newValue) {
        if (!newValue) return null;
        if (newValue.length < 2) return "Length is less than 2";
        if (newValue.length > 5) return "Length is more than 5";
        return null;
      }
    };

Scenario: We are editing a text question, inside a panel. We inspect the value of object.parent.

Before upgrade (v 1.0.88)

object.parent is of type Panel

After upgrade (v 1.1.15)

object.parent is undefined

Here is the example with the latest version. I can see that the editor.object could be undefined. Could you just check for !!editor.object and skip your code? It is likely that the object is not assign into the property editor yet.

Thank you,
Andrew
SurveyJS Team

The problem isn't that editor.object is undefined. In the scenarios I gave, editor.object is of type QuestionText, and my code is already skipping undefined editor.object (not in the example I gave, that is a much simplified one)

It is editor.object.parent that is undefined, even when the question is inside a panel. This is new and unwanted behaviour

I'm having difficulty getting your plunker version to let me put a question inside a panel, but this is the kind of log you'd need to see the issue

JavaScript
Survey
    .JsonObject
    .metaData
    .addProperty("question", {
        name: "shortname",
        type: "shorttext",
        isRequired: true
    });

var ShortTextEditor = {
    render: function (editor, htmlElement) {
        console.log(!!editor.object? "object is here": "object is empty")
        console.log(!!editor.object.parent? "parent is here": "parent is empty")
        var input = document.createElement("input");
        input.className = "form-control svd_editor_control";
        input.type = "text";
        input.maxLength = 5;
        input.style.width = "100%";
        htmlElement.appendChild(input);
        input.onchange = function () {
            editor.koValue(input.value);
        }
        editor.onValueUpdated = function (newValue) {
            input.value = editor.koValue() || "";
        }
        input.value = editor.koValue() || "";
    }
};

SurveyCreator
    .SurveyPropertyEditorFactory
    .registerCustomEditor("shorttext", ShortTextEditor);

SurveyCreator
    .SurveyQuestionEditorDefinition
    .definition
    .question
    .properties
    .push("shortname");

SurveyCreator
    .StylesManager
    .applyTheme("bootstrap");

var creatorOptions = {};
var creator = new SurveyCreator.SurveyCreator("creatorElement", creatorOptions);

Helen,
I have fixed the issue via this commit. It will be available in v1.1.6 on the next week.
As a workaround, so you may go further you may write the following code, that actually does the same:

JavaScript
render: function (editor, htmlElement) {
  if(!editor.object) return; //A work around that you may delete in v1.1.6
  //Here is your current code
}

Thank you,
Andrew
SurveyJS Team

I'm sorry, that does not fix the problem.

JavaScript
render: function (editor, htmlElement) {
  if(!editor.object) return; //A work around that you may delete in v1.1.6
  console.log(editor.object.parent)
}

That logs undefined, even when the question you are editing is inside a panel

Arch, yes, you are right. We create the copy of question in the Question Editor and then apply the changes in this copied question into a real one. As result, the question doesn't have the parent or page.
Could you please show your code? Why do you need to access question.parent property in this editor? We will think about the fix after that.

Thank you,
Andrew
SurveyJS Team