I've written the following function that iterates over each element of an array to see it that element is contained within (substring) my test variable called name. I'm sure groovy has a simple way for me to inline this instead of a separate method. Can anyone help?
boolean testArray (array, name)
{
for (elem in array)
{
if (name.contains (elem))
return true
}
return false
}
How about :
array.any { name.contains it }
Related
Problem statement
I've got problem with an object array I would like to get a sub object array from based on a object property. But via the Array.filter(lambda{}) all I get is an empty list.
The object is like:
export interface objectType1 {
someName: number;
someOtherName: string;
}
export interface ObjectType2 {
name: string;
other: string;
ObjectType1: [];
}
The method to get the subArray is:
private getSubArray(toDivied: ObjectType2[], propertyValue: string){
let list: ObjectType2[] = toDivied.filter((row:ObjectType2) => {
row.name === propertyValue
});
return list;
}
Analys
Namely two things been done ensure filter comparing works and that the data is "as expected".
Brekepoints in visual studio code
Via break points in the return and filter compareison I've inspected that the property value exists (by conditions on the break point) and that the "list" which is returned is empty.
I would like to point out that I use a Typescript linter which usally gives warning for the wrong types and undefined variable calls and such so I am quite sure it shouldn't be an syntax problem.
Tested via javascript if it works in chrome console
remove braces inside callback function
private getSubArray(toDivied: ObjectType2[], propertyValue: string){
let list: ObjectType2[] = toDivied.filter((row:ObjectType2) =>
row.name === propertyValue
);
return list;
}
I'm working on a groovy method to look for a custom attribute and return the value if the key is found.
The problem is that the method is returning the type of value instead of the value.
// There is more code before, but its not involved with this issue.
def UUIDca = 'UUID'
String customAttributeValue = grabCustomAttribute(UUIDca, event_work)
appendLogfile("\n\nTest grabCustomAttribute: ${customAttributeValue}\n")
}
// Grab the Custom Message Attribute values by name
String grabCustomAttribute (String findElement, OprEvent event){
appendLogfile("""\nIN grabCustomAttribute\nElement to look: ${findElement}\n""")
def firstItem = true
if (event.customAttributes?.customAttributes?.size()) {
event.customAttributes.customAttributes.each { ca ->
// Define each CMA to catch here
appendLogfile("""\nElement: ${ca.name} - """)
appendLogfile("""Valor: ${ca.value}\n""")
if ("${ca.name}" == findElement) {
String customValue = ca.value
appendLogfile("""Custom Attribute Found\n""")
appendLogfile(customValue)
return customValue
}
}
}
}
appendLogfile is basically a print to a log file :)
This is the output I'm getting.
IN grabCustomAttribute Element to look: UUID
Element: UUID - Valor: c3bb9169-0ca3-4bcf-beb1-f94eda8ebf1a
Custom Attribute Found
c3bb9169-0ca3-4bcf-beb1-f94eda8ebf1a
Test grabCustomAttribute: [com.hp.opr.api.ws.model.event.OprCustomAttribute#940e503a]
Instead of returning the value, it returns the type of object. It's correct, but I'm looking for the value.
I believe the solution is really simple, but I'm very new to Groovy.
Any help will be appreciated.
Thanks.
In this case the return statement is for the closure, not for the method, so your method is actually returning the list that "each" is iterating over
The easiest approach you can take here is to use Groovy find method to find the element you are searching for. Something like this:
String grabCustomAttribute (String findElement, OprEvent event) {
return event.customAttributes.customAttributes?.find { ca -> ca.name == findElement }.value
}
I created some mixin methods. Code and example below:
URL.metaClass.withCreds = { u, p ->
delegate.openConnection().tap {
setRequestProperty('Authorization', "Basic ${(u + ':' + p).bytes.encodeBase64()}")
}
}
URLConnection.metaClass.fetchJson = {
delegate.setRequestProperty('Accept', 'application/json')
delegate.connect()
def code = delegate.responseCode
def result = new JsonSlurper().parse(code >= 400 ? delegate.errorStream : delegate.inputStream as InputStream)
[
ok : code in (200..299),
body: result,
code: code
]
}
example usage:
new URL("$baseUrl/projects/$name").withCreds(u, p).fetchJson().find {
it.ok
}?.tap{
it.repos = getRepos(it.key).collectEntries { [(it.slug): it] }
}
}
When I dont use find(), my object is, as expected, a map with those 3 elements. When I use find it is a Map.Entry with key ok and value true
which produces this error:
groovy.lang.MissingPropertyException: No such property: ok for class: java.util.LinkedHashMap$Entry
Possible solutions: key
It occured to me when I wrote this post that it was treated the map as an iterable and thus looking at every entry which I have subsequently verified. How do I find on the whole map? I want it.ok because if it's true, I need to carry it forward
There is no such method in Groovy SDK. Map.find() runs over an entry set of the map you call method on. Based on expectation you have defined I'm guessing you are looking for a function that tests map with a given predicate and returns the map if it matches the predicate. You may add a function that does to through Map.metaClass (since you already add methods to URL and URLConnection classes). Consider following example:
Map.metaClass.continueIf = { Closure<Boolean> predicate ->
predicate(delegate) ? delegate : null
}
def map = [
ok : true,
body: '{"message": "ok"}',
code: 200
]
map.continueIf { it.ok }?.tap {
it.repos = "something"
}
println map
In this example we introduced a new method Map.continueIf(predicate) that tests if map matches given predicate and returns a null otherwise. Running above example produces following output:
[ok:true, body:{"message": "ok"}, code:200, repos:something]
If predicate is not met, map does not get modified.
Alternatively, for more strict design, you could make fetchJson() method returning an object with corresponding onSuccess() and onError() methods so you can express more clearly that you add repos when you get a successful response and optionally you create an error response otherwise.
I hope it helps.
If I have a function in SSJS and I want to pass one "firm" parameter and a list of others that can change, what's the best way to do that? With some kind of hashMap or JSON or something else?
for example given something like:
myfunction( code:string, paramList:??) {
// do stuff here
}
Basically the function will create a document. And sometimes I'll have certain fields I'll want to pass in right away and populate and other times I'll have different fields I will want to populate.
How would you pass them in and then parse out in the function?
Thanks!
Use the arguments parameter... In JavaScript you are not required to define any of your parameters in the function block itself. So, for example, the following call:
myFunction(arg1, arg2, arg3, arg4);
can legally be passed to the following function:
myFunction () {
// do stuff here...
}
when I do this, I usually place a comment in the parens to indicate I am expecting variable arguments:
myFunction (/* I am expecting variable arguments to be passed here */) {
// do stuff here...
}
Then, you can access those arguments like this:
myFunction (/* I am expecting variable arguments to be passed here */) {
if (arguments.length == 0) {
// naughty naughty, you were supposed to send me things...
return null;
}
myExpectedFirstArgument = arguments[0];
// maybe do something here with myExpectedFirstArgument
var whatEvah:String = myExpectedFirstArgument + ": "
for (i=1;i<arguments.length;i++) {
// now do something with the rest of the arguments, one
// at a time using arguments[i]
whatEvah = whatEvah + " and " + arguments[i];
}
// peace.
return whatEvah;
}
Wallah, variable arguments.
But, more to the point of your question, I don't think you need to actually send variable arguments, nor go through the hassle of creating actual JSON (which is really a string interpretation of a javascript object), just create and send the actual object then reference as an associative array to get your field names and field values:
var x = {};
x.fieldName1 = value1;
x.fieldName2 = value2;
// ... etc ...
then in your function, which now needs only two parameters:
myFunction(arg1, arg2) {
// do whatever with arg1
for (name in arg2) {
// name is now "fieldName1" or "fieldName2"
alert(name + ": " + x[name]);
}
}
Hope this helps.
I would do this with a JSON object as the second parameter...
function myfunction(code:String, data) {
// do stuff here...
var doc:NotesDocument = database.CreateDocument();
if(data) {
for (x in data) {
doc.replaceItemValue(x, data[x]);
}
}
// do more stuff
doc.save(true, false);
}
Then you call the function like this:
nyfunction("somecode", {form:"SomeForm", subject:"Whatever",uname:#UserName()});
Happy coding.
/Newbs
I don't think that is possible in SSJS. I think the best option you have is to pass a hashmap or your own (java) object. I think a custom java object would be the nicest option because you can define some 'structure' on how your function can process it. A hashmap can be easily extended but it is not easy if you have a lot of code that create a lot of different hashmap structures...
I would like to return from a closure, like one would if using a break statement in a loop.
For example:
largeListOfElements.each{ element->
if(element == specificElement){
// do some work
return // but this will only leave this iteration and start the next
}
}
In the above if statement I would like to stop iterating through the list and leave the closure to avoid unnecessary iterations.
I've seen a solution where an exception is thrown within the closure and caught outside, but I'm not too fond of that solution.
Are there any solutions to this, other than changing the code to avoid this kind of algorithm?
I think you want to use find instead of each (at least for the specified example). Closures don't directly support break.
Under the covers, groovy doesn't actually use a closure either for find, it uses a for loop.
Alternatively, you could write your own enhanced version of find/each iterator that takes a conditional test closure, and another closure to call if a match is found, having it break if a match is met.
Here's an example:
Object.metaClass.eachBreak = { ifClosure, workClosure ->
for (Iterator iter = delegate.iterator(); iter.hasNext();) {
def value = iter.next()
if (ifClosure.call(value)) {
workClosure.call(value)
break
}
}
}
def a = ["foo", "bar", "baz", "qux"]
a.eachBreak( { it.startsWith("b") } ) {
println "working on $it"
}
// prints "working on bar"
I think you're working on the wrong level of abstraction. The .each block does exactly what it says: it executes the closure once for each element. What you probably want instead is to use List.indexOf to find the right specificElement, and then do the work you need to do on it.
If you want to process all elements until a specific one was found you could also do something like this:
largeListOfElements.find { element ->
// do some work
element == specificElement
}
Although you can use this with any kind of "break condition".
I just used this to process the first n elements of a collection by returning
counter++ >= n
at the end of the closure.
As I understand groovy, the way to shortcut these kinds of loops would be to throw a user-defined exception. I don't know what the syntax would be (not a grrovy programmer), but groovy runs on the JVM so it would be something something like:
class ThisOne extends Exception {Object foo; ThisOne(Object foo) {this.foo=foo;}}
try { x.each{ if(it.isOk()) throw new ThisOne(it); false} }
catch(ThisOne x) { print x.foo + " is ok"; }
After paulmurray's answer I wasn't sure myself what would happen with an Exception thrown from within a closure, so I whipped up a JUnit Test Case that is easy to think about:
class TestCaseForThrowingExceptionFromInsideClosure {
#Test
void testEearlyReturnViaException() {
try {
[ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd' ].each {
System.out.println(it)
if (it == 'c') {
throw new Exception("Found c")
}
}
}
catch (Exception exe) {
System.out.println(exe.message)
}
}
}
The output of the above is:
a
b
c
Found c
But remember that "one should NOT use Exceptions for flow control", see in particular this Stack Overflow question: Why not use exceptions as regular flow of control?
So the above solution is less than ideal in any case. Just use:
class TestCaseForThrowingExceptionFromInsideClosure {
#Test
void testEarlyReturnViaFind() {
def curSolution
[ 'a', 'b', 'c', 'd' ].find {
System.out.println(it)
curSolution = it
return (it == 'c') // if true is returned, find() stops
}
System.out.println("Found ${curSolution}")
}
}
The output of the above is also:
a
b
c
Found c
Today I faced a similar problem while working with each closure. I wanted to break the flow of execution based on my condition but couldn't do it.
The easiest way to do in groovy is to use any() on a list instead of each if you wish to return a boolean based on some condition.
Good ole for loop still works in Groovy for your use case
for (element in largeListOfElements) {
if(element == specificElement){
// do some work
return
}
}