Simple Method Question

[Adrian Crum]

Using minilang, I need to put all of the fields from an entity in the result map. I tried using
<map-to-map> but that doesn't work. Is there a simple way to put all of a map's elements into the
result map?

-Adrian

[Vikas Mayur-2]

<entity-one entity-name="Product" value-name="mapName.product"/>
<field-to-result field-name="mapName" result-name="mapName"/>

or

<entity-one entity-name="Product" value-name="mapName.product"/>
<field-to-result field-name="mapName" />

I have not tried it but hope this works.


On 8/30/07, Adrian Crum <[hidden email]> wrote:

>
> Using minilang, I need to put all of the fields from an entity in the
> result map. I tried using
> <map-to-map> but that doesn't work. Is there a simple way to put all of a
> map's elements into the
> result map?
>
> -Adrian
>
>

--
Vikas Mayur

[jonwimp]

Why doesn't map-to-map work? Did you mean you wanted to copy every field in a GenericValue object
to a new map? Then map-to-map will work. The resultant map is NOT a GenericValue object, but a
plain map.

Oh, the result map.

Don't know any method to do that easily. You could write something like map-to-result. If you want
that and you want it checked into OFBiz SVN, I think I can do that very quickly. You check it in.

I usually just put all the fields I want to return into a map, like <set field="someMap.fieldA"
value="Blah"/>. I then do a <field-to-result field-name="someMap"/>. That way, I am able to return
a large set of values. I think this is the better/best practice. Like in Java functions, you don't
see functions returning a whole chunk of values, but instead return a collection.

Jonathon

Adrian Crum wrote:
> Using minilang, I need to put all of the fields from an entity in the
> result map. I tried using <map-to-map> but that doesn't work. Is there a
> simple way to put all of a map's elements into the result map?
>
> -Adrian
>
>

[cjhowe]

If each field in the map needs to go to the result, then perhaps this would work for you:
<iterate-map map="myMap" key="key" value="value">
  <set field="${key}" from-field="value"/>
  <field-to-result field-name="${key}"/>
  <clear-field field="key"/>
  <clear-field field="value"/>
</iterate-map>

----- Original Message ----
From: Jonathon -- Improov <[hidden email]>
To: [hidden email]
Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:34:01 AM
Subject: Re: Simple Method Question

Why doesn't map-to-map work? Did you mean you wanted to copy every field in a GenericValue object
to a new map? Then map-to-map will work. The resultant map is NOT a GenericValue object, but a
plain map.

Oh, the result map.

Don't know any method to do that easily. You could write something like map-to-result. If you want
that and you want it checked into OFBiz SVN, I think I can do that very quickly. You check it in.

I usually just put all the fields I want to return into a map, like <set field="someMap.fieldA"
value="Blah"/>. I then do a <field-to-result field-name="someMap"/>. That way, I am able to return
a large set of values. I think this is the better/best practice. Like in Java functions, you don't
see functions returning a whole chunk of values, but instead return a collection.

Jonathon

Adrian Crum wrote:
> Using minilang, I need to put all of the fields from an entity in the
> result map. I tried using <map-to-map> but that doesn't work. Is there a
> simple way to put all of a map's elements into the result map?
>
> -Adrian
>
>