Random behaviour of deleteInstance

lazybee26

This is for 6.5 on solaris

I'm populating replicant container using a callout. By rule, I want to delete all instances of the replicant, before writing any new data from the callout.
My clean_replicant (below) works very randomly.

Once the DCT is open
1. I click on the callout, select my desired values and press ok.
2. clean_replicant goes into action first, cleaning all existing replicants
3. new values get written into the replicant

These steps work fine only the 1st time. From then on every time I repeat the steps, delete instance status returns "false" increasingly.
Bottom line - my function doesn't delete all instances consistently.


Here's the snippet

// rep parameter is the replicant container
var scriptFrame = opener.top.getScriptFrame();
var rep = scriptFrame.IWDatacapture.getItem(xpath to replicant container);

function clean_replicant(rep)
{
var rep_length=rep.getChildren().length;
//alert(rep_length);
for (i=1;i<=rep_length;i++){
var s =rep.deleteInstance(i);
//alert (s);
}
}


Any tips would be helpful.

Thanks

Adam Stoller

You don't show us where you call clean_replicant().
You don't show up what alerts you get when you have the alerts enabled.
I'd recommend showing in the alerts the value of 'i' as well as 's'

I'm somewhat curirous as to the use-case of this callout - why you'd want to delete all instances of a replicant before inserting a new set [?] of instances.

--fish
Senior Consultant, Quotient Inc.
http://www.quotient-inc.com