Objects in function to return multiple data

[davidgustafsson]

I am trying to create a function that returns multiple data by using a object as return value. The issue is that this is first time I am defining an object and obviously did not understand how it works. Please help me in the right direction as I can´t find anything googling this. What could be wrong with?

This is a Business rule that run after.

(function executeRule(current, previous /*null when async*/)
{
var returnValue = taskFieldsWithUsers(current.sys_id);  /returning a 
var users = returnValue.users;
var nrOfUsersFound = returnValue.i;
var fieldsUsersFoundIn = returnValue.fieldsUsersFoundIn;

gs.log('This is the users found (totally ' + nrOfUsersFound + ' users) fields: ' + fieldsUsersFoundIn);
gs.log('This is the users found (totally ' + nrOfUsersFound + ' users): ' + users);

}

function taskFieldsWithUsers(taskID)
{
var returnValue = {};
returnValue.i = 0;
var task = new GlideRecord('task');
task.addQuery('sys_id',taskID);
task.query();
while (task.next())
{
//var users = [];var i = 0;var fieldsUsersFoundIn = "";
//add caller fältet

//Add any user in field sys_updated_by to list to be verified
if (!task.sys_updated_by.nil())
{
var updatedByUser = new GlideRecord('sys_user');
updatedByUser.addQuery('user_name',task.sys_updated_by);
updatedByUser.query();
while (updatedByUser.next())
{
returnValue.users[i] = updatedByUser.sys_id;
returnValue.fieldsUsersFoundIn = returnValue.fieldsUsersFoundIn + "updated_by, ";
gs.log('This is the : ' + task.sys_updated_by);
returnValue.i++;
}
}

//Add any user in field assigned_to to list to be verified
if (!task.assigned_to.nil())
{
returnValue.users[i] = task.assigned_to;
returnValue.fieldsUsersFoundIn = returnValue.fieldsUsersFoundIn + "assigned_to, ";
returnValue.i++;
}

}

return returnValue;

}

[Anurag Tripathi]

I use JSON object in case i have to return more than one value. Try that.

[davidgustafsson]

Thank you for your reply but I have never used JSON. Is there no way of solving this using one kind of script?

Else is there some kind of simple guide for me to follow for this?

[Anurag Tripathi]

var myObj = {};

myObj.x='haha';

myObj.y='boo';

var json = new JSON();

var result = json.encode(myObj);//JSON formatted string

return result;

and to use the returned object.

var obj = result.evalJSON();

obj.x //accessible here

obj.y //accessible here

[davidgustafsson]

Great and simple!

Just one additional question to solve all my issues. How do you add to this to be able to return a list of objects, is it like below?

var myObj = {};

var myObjList = [];

var i=0;

var length = 2;

while (i<length){

  myObj.x='haha';

  myObj.y='boo';

  myObjList[i] = myObj;

}

var json = new JSON();

var result = json.encode(myObjList);//JSON formatted string

return result;

And to use it...

var obj = result.evalJSON();

obj[0].x //accessible here

obj[0].y //accessible here