Issue with getting a value from an object

[jellederijke]

Hi there fellow Wapplers,

I have this strange issue where I cannot seem to get a specific value from an object within an array. I created a test setup that is easy to replicate.

With this sc file it works fine:

You can see that on opening the sc file in browser I get a value for nameofobject:

But when I create an Array List with multiple of these objects and perform a .where query on the array, I CAN get the whole object, but I can’t seem to get the value for object.file.name.

Here is my sc:

And in the results the nameofobject is not present:

object.file.name returns nothing.

What am i missing?

Any help is greatly appreciated.

ps here is the code for the server connect file

while_test.zip (899 Bytes)

bg

Jelle

[mebeingken]

I think perhaps a flaw in your logic. You are trying to do a groupBy on file, but that is not an array. object is the array.

[jellederijke]

Thanks for the response, Ken. Question remains how does one get the value for object.file.name.

This is just one of my many attempts to access this value in the object.

[famousmag]

try
Set Value nameofobject = {{object.groupBy(‘file’).keys()}}

[mebeingken]

Your object is returning an array, so if that where clause will always return one item, then use object[0].file.name

[jellederijke]

Thanks, Ken! That is indeed it. So the lesson here is, because object opens up with the , it returns an array. And with this [0] you choose to only return the first item in the array, correct?

[mebeingken]

Correct. Arrays are signified by the square brackets [ ] and you can reference any item in an array by its index number which uses zero based counting. So items[0] gives you the first item, items[1] gets the second item, etc.