Convert String into CDT

Look into the cast() function.
Something like this should work:

cast(
    typeof(type!Typeofyourcdt),
        local!value)

Where local!value contains your key:value parameters.

Colton Beck I tried to use it like

cast(typeof(type!Book),local!value)

Here Book is my CDT & local!value is
[success:true,error:,parameters:[BOOKS_CURSOR:[quantity:23,author:Collectif,price:3.74,title:Peppa Pig: Fun at the Fair]; [quantity:7,author:Judith Simanovsky,price:4.99,title:Panda Goes to the Olympics]],result:]

But this is giving error:

Expression evaluation error at function 'cast' [line 15]: Could not cast from Text to Type. Details: CastInvalidCould not cast from Text to Type. Details: CastInvalid

Colton Beck I tried to use it like

cast(typeof(type!Book),local!value)

Here Book is my CDT & local!value is
[success:true,error:,parameters:[BOOKS_CURSOR:[quantity:23,author:Collectif,price:3.74,title:Peppa Pig: Fun at the Fair]; [quantity:7,author:Judith Simanovsky,price:4.99,title:Panda Goes to the Olympics]],result:]

But this is giving error:

Expression evaluation error at function 'cast' [line 15]: Could not cast from Text to Type. Details: CastInvalidCould not cast from Text to Type. Details: CastInvalid

It should be formatted as below, and your label names should match your CDT field names:

cast(
    typeof({type!Book()}),
        {{quantity:23,author:"Collectif",price:3.74,title:"Peppa Pig: Fun at the Fair"},
        {quantity:7,author:"Judith Simanovsky",price:4.99,title:"Panda Goes to the Olympics"}})

Let me know if that works for you.

I believe you need to use the extract() function.  I suggest making a modular expression rule specifically to handle this conversion, for ease of access and updating in the future.  I've written one previously to translate the results of the "getprocessmodeldetailsbyuuid()" plug-in function into dictionary, and it works fairly well.

The following code assumes you will create it as an expression rule and the ri! will be the string (and that if at any point you want to do multiple book strings, you'll apply() this rule over the list).

with(
  local!quantity: extract(ri!rawText, "quantity:", ",author"),
  local!author: extract(ri!rawText, "author:", ",price"),
  local!price: extract(ri!rawText, "price:", ",title"),
  local!title: extract(ri!rawText, "title:", "]"),

  {
    author: local!author,
    title: local!title, 
    quantity: local!quantity,
    price: local!price
  }
)
   

 

In this example I establish each value as its own with() variable before wrapping up everything in a dictionary to be returned at the end.  This might seem slightly overcomplicated but separating the processing in such a way helps if you ever decide the dictionary names should be different, or if one particular field value needs pre-processing before being returned, etc.

Colton Beck When I am trying the data that I get from rule in the expression by copying the data like you have done, it works but when I use local!value in that expression it gives me blank result.