Weird behavior from JsInterop for uninitialized fields/attributes.

Hello, 

This is a minor remark, and it does affect the functioning of JsInterop, as far as I experienced, but may be worth looking into by GWT folks. I have the following Js object that I am wrapping in Java:

var Hotel = function() {
 this.guests = [];
};


Hotel.prototype = {
 addGuest : function(guest) {
 this.guests.push(guest);
 },
 getGuestCount: function(){
 return this.guests.length;
 }
}

@JsType(isNative=true, namespace=GLOBAL)
public class Hotel {
 @JsMethod
 public native final int getGuestCount();
 
 @JsMethod
 public native final void addGuest(Guest guest);
}

I pass a Guest object to the addGuest Method

@JsType(isNative=true, namespace=GLOBAL, name="Object")
public class Guest {
 
 public int guestId;


 public String firstName;


 public String lastName;
 
 public String roomNumber;
}

public class Test implements EntryPoint {


  String uninitializedString;
 
  public void onModuleLoad() {


    Hotel hotel = new Hotel();


    Guest guest = new Guest();
     guest.firstName= "test";
    //passed object is guest = {firstName: "test"}
     hotel.addGuest(guest);


    Guest guest2 = new Guest();
    guest2.firstName = "test";
    guest2.lastName = uninitializedString;
    //passed object is guest = {firstName: "test", lastName: undefined}, should also be guest = {firstName: "test"}
    hotel.addGuest(guest2);
}

}

In short, if you are assigning an uninitialized variable to an uninitialized Object field, the field will not be ignored anymore by JsInterop, and will be transpiled as undefined, although it is still uninitialized. This happens often with the builder pattern.

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