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Workspace IBM Rational Business Developer
Categories EGL Language
Created by Guest
Created on Feb 22, 2011

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create a javascript clone method to copy records

Assigning an EGL record generates many assignment statements in javascript. These statements could be replaced with a single clone statement. For example, if you have a record with 15 fields, it generates 15 javascript assignment statements:
var otherRec = ...;
var rec1 = new MyRecord();
rec1.field1 = otherRec.field1;
....
rec1.field15 = otherRec.field15;
rec1.setNull(otherRec.eze$$isNull);
if we had a clone method, we could generate this instead:
var otherRec = ...;
var rec1 = egl.clone(otherRec);
This clone method would use reflection to copy all of the values. This addition would help compact the generated javascript and make it easier to debug since you wouldn't need to step through the first MyRecord creation.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Sep 14, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - Servers and Systems Software
    Product family - Programming Languages
    Product - Business Developer

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - Rational
    Product family - Design & development
    Product - Business Developer

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 28, 2011

    This feature is now available in fix pack 8.0.1.2

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     May 11, 2011

    This enhancement is now planned for delivery in the next V8 fix pack.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Mar 22, 2011

    Thank you for this suggestion. We agree that making a change like this would both improve performance and reduce the overall size of the generated code. We will consider this in our planning for future updates.

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