Expression evaluation error at function 'contains' [line 39]: Invalid types, can only act on data of the same type (Any Type, Text)

RE: Expression evaluation error at function 'contains' [line 39]: Invalid types, can only act on data of the same type (Any Type, Text)

sergeiz — Fri, 09 Feb 2018 12:56:40 GMT

Thanks, it's not easy to find this function.

I can use any() but it is ten times slower than contains().

RE: Expression evaluation error at function 'contains' [line 39]: Invalid types, can only act on data of the same type (Any Type, Text)

eliav — Mon, 06 Mar 2017 23:58:41 GMT

yes, thank you !

RE: Expression evaluation error at function 'contains' [line 39]: Invalid types, can only act on data of the same type (Any Type, Text)

Mike Schmitt — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:25:16 GMT

Here's a quick snippet that anyone can test out in the expression editor to see the difference between 'touniformstring()' and 'tostring()' ;-)

contains(
  touniformstring(
    {
      "qwer", "asdf", "zxcv"
    }
  ),
  "asdf"
)

RE: Expression evaluation error at function 'contains' [line 39]: Invalid types, can only act on data of the same type (Any Type, Text)

eliav — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:25:12 GMT

touniformstrig() works !! :O

RE: Expression evaluation error at function 'contains' [line 39]: Invalid types, can only act on data of the same type (Any Type, Text)

PhilB — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:24:46 GMT

Also if you're going to use index there (an option is to remove it altogether), then you should probably set the default for index() to be touniformstring({}) or similar, as null will be of the wrong type!

RE: Expression evaluation error at function 'contains' [line 39]: Invalid types, can only act on data of the same type (Any Type, Text)

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:23:37 GMT

contains(
touniformstring( <--------
index(
local!datasubset.data,
"status",
null
)
),
"TO DO"
),

RE: Expression evaluation error at function 'contains' [line 39]: Invalid types, can only act on data of the same type (Any Type, Text)

Mike Schmitt — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:23:31 GMT

A valid code snippet should be something like:

contains(
touniformstring(
property(
local!datasubset.data,
"status",
{} /*null*/
)
),
"TO DO"
)

RE: Expression evaluation error at function 'contains' [line 39]: Invalid types, can only act on data of the same type (Any Type, Text)

PhilB — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:23:10 GMT

Apologies - the guys are right, I should have said touniformstring() :)

RE: Expression evaluation error at function 'contains' [line 39]: Invalid types, can only act on data of the same type (Any Type, Text)

eliav — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:22:01 GMT

Ok, but I have a strange behaviour

contains(
tostring(
index(
local!datasubset.data,
"status",
null
)
),
"TO DO"
),

Doesn't work , TO DO value is not found (returned value is false)

If I try

contains(
{"TO DO"; "DONE"; "DONE"; "DONE"} , "TO DO")

it works and the returned value is true

RE: Expression evaluation error at function 'contains' [line 39]: Invalid types, can only act on data of the same type (Any Type, Text)

Stefan Helzle — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:21:40 GMT

You can use the function touniformstring() to convert a list of any data to a list of strings. tostring() concatenates all items to a single string.

RE: Expression evaluation error at function 'contains' [line 39]: Invalid types, can only act on data of the same type (Any Type, Text)

Mike Schmitt — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:20:48 GMT

Be careful - contains() expects its first parameter to be an array, and in this case it's an array of the property "status" from your datasubset. Wrapping this in "tostring()" will cause the whole array to be converted into one concatenated string, in which case your contains() call will return FALSE in cases where it should return TRUE.

I think the proper rule to use in this case would be 'touniformstring()', which converts an array into an array of strings.

RE: Expression evaluation error at function 'contains' [line 39]: Invalid types, can only act on data of the same type (Any Type, Text)

Ram — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:18:36 GMT

Hi Elia,

Try the below code snippet replacing the data in index function and contains search value.
I hope this will help you.
contains(
split(index({
{
name: "aaa",
age: 21
},
{
name: "bbb",
age: 22
}
}, "name", null), ";"),
"aaa"
)

RE: Expression evaluation error at function 'contains' [line 39]: Invalid types, can only act on data of the same type (Any Type, Text)

Rama Thummala — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:13:28 GMT

@eliav
Here index() returns AnyType value. For contains() you are passing AnyType value and Text value, so it is giving error. convert the output of index() to Text either by using tostring() or cast('type!{namespace}Text' ,index() output )

RE: Expression evaluation error at function 'contains' [line 39]: Invalid types, can only act on data of the same type (Any Type, Text)

rodgraham — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:06:54 GMT

You can use the cast function on the status to convert it to text to allow the use of contains

RE: Expression evaluation error at function 'contains' [line 39]: Invalid types, can only act on data of the same type (Any Type, Text)

PhilB — Mon, 19 Dec 2016 21:06:06 GMT

Try wrapping the index() function in tostring().