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bryanpollack
Ace
11 years ago

Passing integers/booleans to a custom component

For some reason, I can pass an object variable or a hard-coded string to a custom component and retrieve it using env.context.component.getParameter, but when I try to pass an integer variable or a h...
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nathan
Executive
11 years ago

Haven't come across this issue before, but my guess would be that component parameters only accept certain data types. You could probably get around the issue by wrapping the values in a basic hashmap object.

Have you tried something like this?

<@component id="Message" message=starter customParams={"numReplies": numReplies, "showSubject": true} />


<#attempt>
<#assign showSubject = (env.context.component.getParameter('customParams').showSubject) />
<#recover>
<#assign showSubject = true />
</#attempt>
<#attempt>
<#assign numReplies = env.context.component.getParameter('customParams').numReplies />
<#recover>
<#assign numReplies = 0 />
</#attempt>