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[pixshatterer]

Hi, I have been having a rough time trying to assign a valid value to a stringArray field from XML, so far trying something like:

<MyComp
  id="comp"
  messages="[hi, hello, world, none]"
/>

... but so far I always have this in the debugger:

Warnings occurred while creating XML component CarouselItem

-- Type mismatch occurred when setting the "messages" field of a "MyComp" node

... is there a way to set those values right?

It would be awesome if documentation had samples about valid values per field type!

[EnTerr]

You know what would be awesome-er? If the error message was showing what the expected type was!
I.e. is `messages` declared in <interface/>as "string" or what? (Apparently not string or it wouldn't object)

Welcome to XML world, where we always feed strings to the properties but make-believe they are something else! </sarcasm>

[TheEndless]

This this instead...

<MyComp
  id="comp"
  messages="['hi', 'hello', 'world', 'none']"
/>

[EnTerr]

Pray tell - what field type would that be?  😎 ah yes, made a fool of myself

[TheEndless]

"EnTerr" wrote:
Pray tell - what field type would that be?  😎

The OP said he was trying to set the value of a "stringarray" field.

[pixshatterer]

"TheEndless" wrote:
This this instead...

<MyComp
  id="comp"
  messages="['hi', 'hello', 'world', 'none']"
/>

I already tried, but it didn't work 😕 so I went looking around if escaping quotes would work and it did, so this was the solution:

 

<MyComp
id="comp"
messages="[&quot;hi&quot;,&quot;hello&quot;,&quot;world&quot;,&quot;none&quot;]"
/>

... which looks awful, but so far looks like the only way :v 

[pixshatterer]

"TheEndless" wrote:

"EnTerr" wrote:
Pray tell - what field type would that be?  😎

The OP said he was trying to set the value of a "stringarray" field.

... and btw, I ran into another issue now: I wanted to pass uri in this format as it can be used in XML components  "pkg:/locale/whatever/$$RES$$/image.png" but now it doesn't resolve those.. is there an - maybe - obvious way to accomplish that?

[pixshatterer]

"EnTerr" wrote:
You know what would be awesome-er? If the error message was showing what the expected type was!
I.e. is `messages` declared in <interface/>as "string" or what? (Apparently not string or it wouldn't object)

Welcome to XML world, where we always feed strings to the properties but make-believe they are something else! </sarcasm>

...well, I think it was self explanatory when I wrote it:

Hi, I have been having a rough time trying to assign a valid value to a stringArray field...

... but I can be wrong 🙂

[TheEndless]

"pixshatterer" wrote:

I already tried, but it didn't work 😕 so I went looking around if escaping quotes would work and it did, so this was the solution:

<MyComp
id="comp"
messages="[&quot;hi&quot;,&quot;hello&quot;,&quot;world&quot;,&quot;none&quot;]"
/>

... which looks awful, but so far looks like the only way :v 

Eep!  Try flipping the quotes...

<MyComp
  id="comp"
  messages='["hi", "hello", "world", "none"]'
/>

XML supports single and double quotes interchangeably when wrapping attribute values.  Apparently the Roku SceneGraph parser doesn't...

[pixshatterer]

"TheEndless" wrote:

"pixshatterer" wrote:

I already tried, but it didn't work 😕 so I went looking around if escaping quotes would work and it did, so this was the solution:

<MyComp
id="comp"
messages="[&quot;hi&quot;,&quot;hello&quot;,&quot;world&quot;,&quot;none&quot;]"
/>

... which looks awful, but so far looks like the only way :v 

Eep!  Try flipping the quotes...

<MyComp
  id="comp"
  messages='["hi", "hello", "world", "none"]'
/>

XML supports single and double quotes interchangeably when wrapping attribute values.  Apparently the Roku SceneGraph parser doesn't...

Awesome! that worked! I'm familiar with the XML interchangeability of single/double quotes there, but after it failed when I tried the other way around  - as you suggested too - I gave up on that.

Thanks!