forms[form].foundset notation

Classic Servoy
1

Hello, the notation of forms[form].foundset does not seem to work? Is this a bug or “expected behaviour”?

I am trying to do this:

var totalRecords = databaseManager.getFoundSetCount(forms[form].foundset)

This throws an error…

2

Hi Patrick,

The correct syntax is:

databaseManager.getFoundSetCount(foundset);

Hope this helps,

Bob Cusick

3

yes, I know that. But that requires that you are on the controller where the foundset “resides”. What do you do if you are on controller A and want to retrieve the total foundset of Controller X?

The usual notation for accessing Controller X is forms. What does work is

databaseManager.getFoundSetCount(forms.A.foundset)

but what doesn’t is

databaseManager.getFoundSetCount(forms[x].foundset)

That was my question :wink:

4

What is X?

do you have something like this:

var x = ‘X’;
forms.foundset;

or

forms[‘X’].foundset;

5

basically what I have is this:

var currForm = arguments[0];
var foundRecords = databaseManager.getFoundSetCount(forms[currForm].foundset)
6

hmm i just tested this like this:

one method:

test(currentcontroller.getName());

and then the test method:

var currForm = arguments[0];
application.output(forms[currForm].foundset.getSize());

and this works as expected.

7

this notation works all over the place! It just doesn’t work with databaseManager.getFoundSetCount().

It takes a while until we all get to the point here, does it? :wink:

8

And that is not possible.. because if my code works then setting the databasemanger call between it doesn’t matter. And i tested it:

var currForm = arguments[0];
var foundRecords = databaseManager.getFoundSetCount(forms[currForm].foundset) 
application.output(foundRecords);

This works fine. As i thought because if this works:

application.output(forms[currForm].foundset.getSize());

then it will absolutly work for the above databaseManager call also.
Becaue the call databaseManager.getFoundSetCount() doesn’t have anything to do with resolving the foundset (forms[currForm].foundset)

9

sorry for wasting your time. It does work. I don’t know why it gave me an error yesterday, I have tried several times with the exact same notation. The error must have come from something else…