How to make a GlideRecord read only?

[Daniel Oderbolz]

Hi

I have a situation where I pass a GlideRecord to a cutomer-defined function to perform some check.
In order to avoid the customer to mess with the GlideRecord (intentionally or uninitentionally), I would like to make the GlideRecord read-only before passing it to the function.

Is this possible?

Many thanks for your insights!

Cheers
Daniel

[Daniel Oderbolz]

Dear Ali

Thanks for your suggestion.
You are right that it is more prudent to implicitly create a JS Object (does not even need to be JSON) and pass this.
So, I will write a function like this:

/**
 * Given any GlideRecord creates a JS Array of Objects with the fields (read only)
 * Note that dot-walking is not possible, references are given as sys_ids
 *
 * @function GlideRecordToReadOnlyObj
 * @param {gr:any} grAny - Glide Record of any table
 * @returns {object} - an object where each field of the Glide Record is a property 
 * @author Daniel C. Oderbolz
 */
function GlideRecordToReadOnlyObj(grAny)
{
	var result = [];

	while (grAny.next()) 
	{
		var record = {};

		//get all the fields for this record
		var fields = grAny.getFields();
		for (var i = 0; i < fields.size(); i++) 
	    {
			var glideElement = fields.get(i);
			strFieldName = glideElement.getName();

			//Store field
			record[strFieldName] = grAny.getValue(strFieldName);
			
		} // each field
		
		result.push(record);

	} // each row;

	return result;
}

Having said that, I also like the idea of the abort action!

Thanks a lot & Best
Daniel