Creating Dictionary in JavaScript

[theultimate]

Hello everyone,

I need your help with creating a dictionary in JavaScript with multiple keys, like this:

array = {
	"Load Case" :
	{
		"(Support)1" : {
			"Location(ft)" : 0,
			"Fy(kips)" : 0,
			"Mz(kft)" : 0,
			"Deflection(in)": 0,
			"Rotation(Deg)" : 0
		},
		
		"2" : {
			"Location(ft)" : 0,
			"Fy(kips)" : 0,
			"Mz(kft)" : 0,
			"Deflection(in)": 0,
			"Rotation(Deg)" : 0
		},
	},
	
	"Envelope" :
	{
	}
};

What i m trying to do is to get the values from a grid, and for each line set the name from row[0] as the main key, and as subkeys the name which are on column[0] and after that add values to the subkeys from table[i][j].

[tristaanogre]

Is there a particular reason why you can't use the dictionary object provided natively in Windows?

See

https://support.smartbear.com/testcomplete/docs/scripting/dictionary-object.html

[theultimate]

I am not used with dictionaries in javascript.

I ve tried something like this:

function testt()
{
  var arrList = getActiveXObject("Scripting.Dictionary");
  
  for (let i = 1; i <= wndConspanAnalysisGrid.wRowCount; i++)
  {
    var arrListColumns = getActiveXObject("Scripting.Dictionary");

    //Principal keys
    for (let j = 1; j <= wndConspanAnalysisGrid.wColumnCount; j++)
    {
      arrListColumns.Add(GetCellText(0, j), GetCellText(i, j));
    }

    var arrayTest = (new VBArray(arrListColumns.Items())).toArray();
    Log.Message("Count " + arrayTest.length);

    for (let k = 0 ; k < arrayTest.length; k++)
      Log.Message(arrayTest[i]);

    arrList.Add(GetCellText(i, 0), arrListColumns);
  }

  return arrList;
}

My new question is how can i print to log.message the whole dictionary to see if its working properly or a function to get the specific element from this dictionary?

[tristaanogre]

I'm not sure you can....  There would have to be some way to convert the dictionary object into a string to write out to the log... and I'm not sure that you can natively do that.

[theultimate]

It must be, then what's the point of this dictionary?

[tristaanogre]

The point of any dictionary is to be able to have a means, by using a key, to return a value.  So... that's what we have.  Debugging and reporting on how the dictionary is constructed is simply a matter of development process.

[theultimate]

Thanks a lot for your answers.

I solved my problem, i will post my code below, maybe will help someone.

var wndConspanAnalysisGrid = Aliases.LEAPBridgeConcrete.wndConspan.MDIClient.wndMain.pageMain.pageAnalysis.Custom1;

function TestCreateDictionary()
{
  var arrList = getActiveXObject("Scripting.Dictionary");
  
  for (let i = 1; i <= wndConspanAnalysisGrid.wRowCount; i++)
  {
    var arrListColumns = getActiveXObject("Scripting.Dictionary");

    //Sub keys
    for (let j = 1; j <= wndConspanAnalysisGrid.wColumnCount; j++)
    {
      arrListColumns.Add(GetCellText(0, j), GetCellText(i, j));
    }

    //Principal keys
    arrList.Add(GetCellText(i, 0), arrListColumns);
  }

  /*var safeArray = (arrList.Keys().toArray())
  for (let i in safeArray) {
    Log.Message("Key is: " + safeArray[i]);
    var lineD = arrList.Item(safeArray[i]);
    var line = lineD.Keys().toArray();
    for (let k in line)
      Log.Message("Key is: " + line[k] + ", value is: " + lineD.Item(line[k]))
  }*/
  
  var value = SearchValue(arrList, "2", "Location(m)");

  Log.Message(value);
  //return arrList;
}

function SearchValue(arrList, lineKey, columnKey)
{
  var line = arrList.Item(lineKey);
  
  return line.Item(columnKey);
}

function GetCellText(i, j)
{
  return wndConspanAnalysisGrid.GetItemText(i, j).m_pszData;
}