Hi.
I am looking for a better solution than what i currently have..this has
probably been encountered by others.
I am creating some code on 4D V17 but I can not really use collections or
.notation as this is going to get deployed on V16 and will not be upgraded for
at least a few months(and i am not sure that would solve this problem anyway).
I am retrieving an object from a connected source(Magento FYI)... from the
object we get a sub entity object and that sub entity may itself contain a
subentity etc etc(we are mapping data to go into our system). I am trying to
write something agnostic and generic so i am not expecting to ‘hard wire’ any
behaviour for a specific entity into the code that extracts the data.
So at each ‘entity’ level I get the attribute names and types. where the
attribute type is 38 or 42 this is a ‘sub entity’ so we are going to get that
object and call back into the same code to go down a level.
Now on V16 of course i wont get a type 42 but actually a type 42 SHOULD(as i
understand it) mean the object (element) contains an object and that object
SHOULD be a ‘complex’ object and my understanding is that should be an array of
objects(else it would not be a collection)? Have i misunderstood that?
So i should be able to write(for a type 42 attribute)..
OB Get Array($ObjData;$attributeName;$aObjSubObject) //Where $aObjSubObject is
an Array Object
(and mostly that works)….
However
I am finding a case where
Attribute Type =42
Attribute Name=“additional_information"
...and the object looks like this:-
{account_status:null,additional_information:[Check / Money
order],amount_ordered...
in that object ‘additional_information’ looks like
additional_information:[Check / Money order]
which as any JSON/4D object fool can see(LOL) is an array type object(of text
in this case) not a collection of objects. When i retreive it as an array of
objects I get the correct number of elements(1) but the value of the element(1)
is NULL because its not [{…
indeed if I write:-
OB Get Array($ObjData;$attributeName;$aTextarray) //Where $aTextarray is an
Array of type text
This indeed gets the values from the object..which would be absolutely fine(and
a work around might be to get both, as neither error, and then look at whether
the values in the object array are null and if they are then its an array of
values).
So my question is this. What is a better way to find out what the type of data
in the attribute is? What am I missing in my understanding of the structure of
an/this object.
OB Get type returns 42(matching the attribute type of course!). It feels like
the attribute is Shrodingers Cat- existing as a collection of cats and not a
collection of cats at the same time.
Nigel Greenlee
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