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mattc_1
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15 years ago

Casting From Generic Object

This is probably more of a VBScript question. I know that it is a limited in functionality but I haven't been able to figure out how to cast out of a Generic Object.



I am using VS2008 to handle all the testing and am running the RunRoutineEx function for my parms. I am passing in an ArrayList that has two String Arrays in them. They pass in fine and I can see the values of each String inside the String Array in the Immediate Window but I thought I would be able to just call parm(0) to get the index 0 value but that does not work because it classified as an object when it gets into the TC Scripts. What's a little different is if I call IsArray it returns true and if I call TypeName it says that it is a String() which makes sense but why can't I use it as such?



Hopefully this all makes sense. 



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  • Dmitry_Nikolaev's avatar
    Dmitry_Nikolaev
    Staff
    15 years ago

    Hi Matthew,





    You should be able to do this in the following way:

        ...

        Dim props(1) As Object

        props(0) = "Property1"

        props(1) = "Property2"





        Dim vals(1) As Object

        vals(0) = "Value1"

        vals(1) = "Value2"





        Dim params(1) As Object

        params(0) = props

        params(1) = vals





        Call IntegrationObject.RunRoutineEx("MyProject", "MyUnit", "TestArrParam", params)

        ...


    Sub TestArrParam(properties, values)

      For i = 0 To UBound(properties)

        Log.Message properties(i) & " = " & values(i)  

      Next 

    End Sub

  • mattc_1's avatar
    mattc_1
    Occasional Contributor
    15 years ago
    That worked. So the problem was that I could pass in a generic object but not a string array.



    Thanks.
  • Dmitry_Nikolaev's avatar
    Dmitry_Nikolaev
    Staff
    15 years ago

    Hi Matthew,





    A generic object is converted to a value of the Variant type when passed to a test script via TestComplete's COM object.