Calling server method from another server method

RE: Calling server method from another server method

Suhas — Wed, 11 Mar 2020 07:17:33 GMT

Hello Cogres,

Thanks for the update. It is working fine.

Regards,

Suhas

RE: Calling server method from another server method

cogres — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 07:56:37 GMT

Hi Suhas,

see my reply below. You can pass any information from Method A to Method B by setting properties on the item you apply the method on:

// we have an Innovator object called inn var methodItem = inn.newItem("Method"); methodItem.setProperty("some_info_for_method_b", "value for that info"); var resultItem = methodItem.apply("Method B");

You can then access some_info_for_method_b in Method B with

string info = this.getProperty("some_info_for_method_b", "")

Of course, you can set as many of those auxiliary properties as you like, or pass all method arguments in one property, separated by commas.

Hope this helps,

RE: Calling server method from another server method

Suhas — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 07:52:43 GMT

Hello Kate,

How to pass parameter(argument) to Method_B? with the help of setProperty()?

Regards,

Suhas

RE: Calling server method from another server method

cogres — Tue, 10 Mar 2020 07:46:40 GMT

Hi there,

you can also just use any method as the apply()-action on any item. Consequently, that item would be "this" in the called method.

I.e.

var methodResult = someItem.apply("Method B");

Hope this helps,

EDIT: Just to clear up the confusion with applyMethod(): The second input parameter to applyMethod() is supposed to be a string representation of the dom of the Item you want to be "this" in the method. Hence your approach results in an error, you passed an empty method item.
From the API description:

Parameters

  methodName
   Name of the method.
  body
   Context for the method (method item).

Remarks

The context for the method will be the method item, in the form: <Item type="Method" action="{methodName}">{body}</Item> Note, that only methods that use IOM namespace from .NET (C#, VBScript) can be applied, and methods written in JavaScript cannot be applied.

RE: Calling server method from another server method

Kate Marsh — Mon, 09 Mar 2020 17:26:00 GMT

Hi Suhas,

The applyMethod function will cause a client-side error dialog to show up. You'll want to use the inn.apply() function instead.

Try replacing the line "Item X = etc." from Method A with

Item X = inn.newItem("Method", "Method_B");
X = X.apply();

This should make everything else work as is.

-Kate