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Vec84
Contributor
8 years ago

Using Properties instead of Params

Our AUT currently runs through a flow of forms and i have a Unit for each form which i consider to be a class and each form has multiple outcomes and each form has multiple functions. I have added pa...
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    tristaanogre
    8 years ago

    Yes.  Basically, whatever function you'd determine to be your constructor would assign all your properties.  It would look like:

     

    function constructorA() {
    var localObject = {prop1: '', prop2: 0} //Sets up the object with properties and default values

    localObject.Method1 = function () {
        Log.Message('Valjean 1: ' + localObject.prop1);
    }
    localObject.Method2 = function () {
        Log.Message('Marius: ' + localObject.prop2);
    }
    return localObject;
}

function Main() {
    var myObject = new constructorA();
    myObject.prop1 = 'Who am I?"
    myObject.prop2 = 24601;
    myObject.Method1();
    myObject.Method2();
    
}
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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor

Yes.  Basically, whatever function you'd determine to be your constructor would assign all your properties.  It would look like:

 

function constructorA() {
    var localObject = {prop1: '', prop2: 0} //Sets up the object with properties and default values

    localObject.Method1 = function () {
        Log.Message('Valjean 1: ' + localObject.prop1);
    }
    localObject.Method2 = function () {
        Log.Message('Marius: ' + localObject.prop2);
    }
    return localObject;
}

function Main() {
    var myObject = new constructorA();
    myObject.prop1 = 'Who am I?"
    myObject.prop2 = 24601;
    myObject.Method1();
    myObject.Method2();
    
}
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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
8 years ago

BTW, if you like the idea of Script Extensions and like the framework, you COULD combine the two... build out a whole bunch of runtime objects that would be your different objects that you could then just assign values to properties and call methods without having to instantiate them in code.  It could work but it would take some back end elbow grease to get it up and running.  Theoretically feasible.