you do not need to pass the values as shown here. Make use of the
Context parameter (second implicit parameter) to get hold of the value
of ${item.category}
context.getVariableResolver().resolve('item.category'))
On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Joel Nylund <jnyl...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi, I have an entity that has a entity within it that executes a query for
> each row and calls a transformer. Is there a way to pass a value from the
> parent query into the transformer?
>
> For example, I have an entity called document, and it it has an ID and
> sometimes it has a category.
>
> I have a sub entity called category that does another complex query using
> the documents ID to get data to send to the transformer to determine the
> category. I would like to pass the parents category to this transformer, so
> I dont have to join in data I already have. Is this possible?
>
> Im using ${item.id} in the where clause, so I guess im wondering, can I do
> something like.....
>
> <entity name="item" query="..........
> <entity name="category"
> transformer="script:SplitAndPrettyCategory(${item.category})" query="......
>
> thanks
> Joel
>
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