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bryanpollack
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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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samudhraa
Expert
11 years ago

Hi Braynpollock,

 

I think its mentioned in the  tkb post that parameters can only be of the type string. One of the workaround could be , for you to pass the message size as string , and then convert it to number using something like ,

<#assign numReplies = (thread.messages.linear.message?size - 1) />

<#assign numReplies = numReplies?string />

<@component id="Message" message=starter numReplies=numReplies  showSubject="true" />

 

and later in the component Message , 

<#assign numReplies = env.context.component.getParameter('numReplies') />

after the attempt part , when you are about to use the variable , you can convert it to number .

<#assign numReplies = numReplies?number />

 

Hope that helps .

 

Thanks,

Sam