PASOE/REST/DOH Custom .map file

EDIT:  I found a typo that was causing the 404.  The output type was wrong.

"Progress.Json.ObjectModel.JsonObject" should have been "CLASS Progress.Json.ObjectModel.JsonObject"

Now my method is getting called but the input extent field that is mapped to the "values" query parameter does not contain any extents.  If I put a "MESSAGE EXTENTS(search_values)" it displays a null (?).

I guess now the question is how to map the query parameter (which is an array) to an ABL extent field?

Louis

Louis,

It looks like the current implementation for input char arrays only accepts values from JSON arrays. Ideally you'd be able to specify the mapping like the below snippet, but this isn't working.

// snippet
{
    "ablName": "search_values",
    "ablType": "CHARACTER EXTENT",
    "ioMode": "INPUT",
    "msgElem": [
        {"type": "QUERY","name": "first"},
        {"type": "QUERY","name": "second"},
        {"type": "QUERY","name": "third"}
    ]
},

Peter,

Today I figured out how to get around this.  Since my combo box is a single select, I will only ever have 1 value passed to the mapper service. This means I don't need the extent.  I changed my map, method, and javascript convert method as follows and this looks to be working (although having just got it going today I haven't tested much).  Note, as I continued testing I also found I had to change the contentType and add another query parameter.

.map file:

        "/CustValueMapper": {
          "GET": {
            "contentType": "application/x-javascript",
            "entity": {
              "name": "CustList",
              "function": "CustValueMapper",
              "arg":
                [
                  {
                    "ablName": "",
                    "ablType": "INTEGER",
                    "ioMode": "RETURN",
                    "msgElem": {"type": "StatusCode", "name": null}
                  },
                  {
                      "ablName": "callback",
                      "ablType": "CHARACTER",
                      "ioMode": "INPUT",
                      "msgElem": {"type": "QUERY", "name": "callback"}
                  },
                  {
                      "ablName": "search_value",
                      "ablType": "CHARACTER",
                      "ioMode": "INPUT",
                      "msgElem": {"type": "QUERY", "name": "value"}
                  },
                  {
                      "ablName": "response",
                      "ablType": "CHARACTER",
                      "ioMode": "OUTPUT",
                      "msgElem": {"type": "BODY", "name": null}
                  }
                ]
            }
          }
        }

ABL method:

    METHOD PUBLIC INT CustValueMapper(INPUT callback AS CHARACTER,
                                      INPUT search_value AS CHARACTER,
                                      OUTPUT response AS CHARACTER):

            oJTSConfig:Logit(5, "CustValueMapper() search_value: " + search_value).
            response = callback + "([0])".
        
        RETURN 200.
    END METHOD.

JS method:

    convertValues(value) {
        let data = {};

        // value = $.isArray(value) ? value : [value];
        // for (let idx = 0; idx < value.length; idx++) {
        //     data["values[" + idx + "]"] = value[idx];
        // }

        data["value"] = value;  // Not a multiselect so return single value

        return data;
    }

I'm still working out the details for the actual ABL mapper method but basically it needs to find the record and return the index of it within the full temp table data used for the combo box.

It would still be nice to figure out how to pass an array of data to an ABL extent field.  Somebody will eventually need to use this for pre-fetching data for a combo box, dropdown, grid, etc.

Louis