Casting data Subset to CDT type

RE: Casting data Subset to CDT type

Victor Bouchery — Tue, 09 Jul 2019 12:13:15 GMT

cast('type!CDTName?list',local!anytypevalues) works too

RE: Casting data Subset to CDT type

Jerry Sylveus — Fri, 16 Nov 2018 04:02:38 GMT

Thanks Shame for your input. :-)

RE: Casting data Subset to CDT type

shamec0002 — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:55:08 GMT

Good point, thanks for the correction - I completely overlooked the fact that integer and integer array are different types!

RE: Casting data Subset to CDT type

Jerry Sylveus — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:48:25 GMT

The good ol days....

RE: Casting data Subset to CDT type

Ashvin Kapur — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:47:04 GMT

The cast that you're doing above (cast to type 1), is a cast to a singular number integer. Try cast(101, {"10", "20"}).

Cast absolutely supports arrays - looping through the data is not the way to go.

RE: Casting data Subset to CDT type

shamec0002 — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:34:00 GMT

I quickly tried this cast(1, {"10", "20"}) and it only returns 10 so I don't think the cast function supports array values, you might have to loop through your data cast one at a time.

RE: Casting data Subset to CDT type

Abhishek Gaddam — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 16:07:56 GMT

Cheers to the persistent days !! :)

RE: Casting data Subset to CDT type

Jerry Sylveus — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:58:42 GMT

Thanks Abhishek

RE: Casting data Subset to CDT type

Ashvin Kapur — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:51:36 GMT

Hey Jerry,

Try cast(typeOf({'type!CDTName'})) instead. You need to cast it to an ARRAY of that type.

RE: Casting data Subset to CDT type

Abhishek Gaddam — Thu, 15 Nov 2018 15:51:24 GMT

Hi Jerry,

Update the casting to
cast(typeof({'type!CDTNAME'()}), index(expressionRuleWithQueryEntity(),"data",{})) this way you will be casting the output of the query entity to list of data instead of single datasubset.Using {} near the CDTame makes the whole difference and if you are using a query rule then your casting should be something like this : cast(typeof({'type!CDTNAME'()}), expressionRuleWithQueryEntity()).

Thanks,
Abhishek gaddam