Variable scopes

[mnowlin]

I know this is a little on the old side, but I have a 1.3.2 installation that I'm upgrading to 1.7. Several channels use localmap.put() in JavaScript transformers, which isn't available in 1.7. (Replaced with ConnectorMap.put(), if I'm reading correctly?)

Did some digging - the closest I found to a good description of the new variable scoping was MIRTH-274 in JIRA. Does a better description exist somewhere?

Thanks, Mike

[mnowlin]

Re:Variable scopes

Follow-up and additional question:

In some brief testing, connectorMap.put() seems to do the same thing as the old localmap.put(), but I'm scratching my head on a related issue:

I have a JS transformer step that identifies critical lab results and sets a variable if any are found:

var hiloflag;
var rval;

rval = "";

for each (obx in msg..OBX) {

hiloflag = obx['OBX.8'];

if (hiloflag != null) {
if (hiloflag.toString().equals('CH')) {
rval = "C";
}

if (hiloflag.toString().equals('CL')) {
rval = "C";
}
}

}

connectorMap.put('criticalflag',rval);

...works in 1.3.2

In testing with an Email Sender destination, I have the body as:

New critical results available
PID: ${PID}
Accession: ${Accession}
Critical flag: ${criticalflag}

PID and Accession use similar connectorMap.put() calls, and they work, but the criticalflag variable is always null.

What am I missing?

Tnx, Mike

Post edited by: mnowlin, at: 01/30/2008 00:22