GlideRecord in UI script

[Rosy14]

Hi,

I have below ui script where I want to replace the glideRecord by GlideAjax/g_scratchpad. ALso, want to know how to test if the code is working properly or not

redirectToUrl();

function redirectToUrl() {
grUserPreference = new GlideRecord('sys_user_preference');
grUserPreference.addQuery('user', top.window.NOW.user_id); // picking up current user as g_user doesnt work here.
grUserPreference.addQuery('name', 'sfRedirectPortal');
grUserPreference.query(response);

function response(result) {
        var url = '';
        var sflastRedirect = '';
        if (result.next()) {
            url = result.value;
            sflastRedirect = localStorage.getItem("sflastRedirect");

            if (url != "" && top.window.location.toString().indexOf(url) == -1 && (grUserPreference.sys_updated_on > sflastRedirect || sflastRedirect == null)) {
                localStorage.setItem("sflastRedirect", grUserPreference.sys_updated_on);
                top.window.location = url;
            }
        }
    }
}

[Ankur Bawiskar · Accepted solution]

@Rosy14 

your GlideRecord is with callback which should be fine but if you still want you can use GlideAjax

Something like this

Script Include:

var UserPreferenceRedirect = Class.create();
UserPreferenceRedirect.prototype = Object.extendsObject(AbstractAjaxProcessor, {

    getUserPreference: function() {
        var result = {};
        var grUserPreference = new GlideRecord('sys_user_preference');
        grUserPreference.addQuery('user', gs.getUserID());
        grUserPreference.addQuery('name', 'sfRedirectPortal');
        grUserPreference.query();
        if (grUserPreference.next()) {
            result.url = grUserPreference.value.toString();
            result.sys_updated_on = grUserPreference.sys_updated_on.toString();
        }
        return result;
    },

    type: 'UserPreferenceRedirect'
});

UI Script:

redirectToUrl();

function redirectToUrl() {
    var ga = new GlideAjax('UserPreferenceRedirect');
    ga.addParam('sysparm_name', 'getUserPreference');
    ga.getXMLAnswer(function(response) {
        var result = JSON.parse(response);
        var url = result.url;
        var sflastRedirect = localStorage.getItem("sflastRedirect");

        if (url && top.window.location.toString().indexOf(url) == -1 && (result.sys_updated_on > sflastRedirect || sflastRedirect == null)) {
            localStorage.setItem("sflastRedirect", result.sys_updated_on);
            top.window.location = url;
        }
    });
}

I believe how to test depends on what was the requirement and where is this UI script used.

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