Transfer dictionary between interfaces

RE: Transfer dictionary between interfaces

alex.ladue — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:43:06 GMT

Correct you cannot append a dictionary to a dictionary. You need ri!data to be a List of Dictionary. You should be able to replace your if statement with just:

a!save(ri!data,append(ri!data,local!data)

This will create a list of dictionary on the first save and then append new values to that list on subsequent saves.

RE: Transfer dictionary between interfaces

best — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 16:06:50 GMT

We cannot append to a "Dictionary".

But we can append to a type "List Of Dictionary"

RE: Transfer dictionary between interfaces

arunramanathtm — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 15:33:42 GMT

Okay thanks !
but any type looks insufficient to my case.

Here is my scenario:

I've a button labelled 'Add New Data' in parent interface. Whenever i hit this button, it displays my child interface. On clicking 'Done' button in the child interface, brings the data to parent interface.

Now when I click 'Add new data' button again and it calls the child interface for the second time (looped) , now when i hit 'Done', i need to append both dictionaries.

For this i've written below code in 'Done' button (child interface).

a!buttonwidget(

label:"Done",

saveInto:

{

if(rule!apn_isempty(ri!data),

a!save( ri!data, local!data ),

a!save(ri!data,append(ri!data,local!data)

)

}

)

Appending two ANY TYPE value fails . Could you please suggest some other way to do this?

RE: Transfer dictionary between interfaces

alex.ladue — Thu, 11 Jun 2020 15:17:54 GMT

The only way to pass a dictionary in a rule input is to use the type "Any Type". You could also make a CDT for this case if that made sense for your use case. Is there a reason why using Any Type is not sufficient for your use case?