How to fetch the constant Values using the constant Name?

Question

I have the constant name in DB and on the UI, I want to display the constant values for it. How can we retrieve the values for a constant by passing its name?

sureshg57 · Answer

This is one plugin you can use. forum.appian.com/.../summary

But I do highly recommend not to use a solution like this if you have any other way of handling you requirement as this can become hard to maintain

Mike Schmitt · Answer

you could possibly use the eval() function for this too, though as sureshg57 already pointed out, either method presented here will present you maintenance challenges and risk of breaking (for instance, you will have no way of checking whether one of the constant names in the DB doesn't match a real constant, and risk throwing an error).