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Default value for a lookupTablePath?

dave_cowdendave_cowden Member, Developers Posts: 470 ✭✭✭
How do you set the default value for a lookup table path? 

When i set up a lookupTable path variable, i expect the default value to be the one selected via the 'default'
clause in the lookup table itself.

But what i find is that the value is empty until the user chooses a value from it, at which point, it is populated.

What is the right way to ensure that the initial value of a lookupPath definition field is set to the default values initially displayed?

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  • ilya_baranilya_baran Onshape Employees, Developers, HDM Posts: 1,173
    I'm not seeing that -- when I type the following, I get a correct default.
    
    const lookupTable = {
            "name" : "choice1",
            "displayName" : "First Choice",
            "default" : "y",
            "entries" : { "x" : "1", "y" : "2", "z" : "3" }
        };
    
    annotation { "Feature Type Name" : "My Feature" }
    export const myFeature = defineFeature(function(context is Context, id is Id, definition is map)
        precondition
        {
            annotation { "Lookup table" : lookupTable }
            definition.p is LookupTablePath;
        }
        {
            // Define the function's action
        }, { /* default parameters */ });
    

    If you can post a small code snippet where this is breaking here, I'll log a bug.
    Ilya Baran \ VP, Architecture and FeatureScript \ Onshape Inc
  • dave_cowdendave_cowden Member, Developers Posts: 470 ✭✭✭
    weird. so with that sample, inside of an editing logic function, and inside of the body,

    print( definition.p ) would give { "choice1" : 'y' } ?

    for me in both cases, and before any user click, definition.p would be an empty set. I'll make see if i can make a simple document to repro-- may example is way too complex to post, so it coudl have a bug too.
  • ilya_baranilya_baran Onshape Employees, Developers, HDM Posts: 1,173
    Ah, no -- I was just looking at the UI.  Logging a bug.
    Ilya Baran \ VP, Architecture and FeatureScript \ Onshape Inc
  • dave_cowdendave_cowden Member, Developers Posts: 470 ✭✭✭
    Ok. as a side note, the hole feature in std. works around this-- somehow. The code was a bit too complex, i gave up trying to figure it out.

    In my case, for now the workaround was to do something like this in the editingLogicFuntion:

    var lookupPath = definition.path
    if ( oldDefinition == {} ){
        lookupPath = lookupPath ( { 'choice': 'p' } )
    }

    this allowed me to continue as if it was populated as I expected. but of course this code is brittle because it is a duplicate of what's already in the lookup table.
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