Bug in DocumentManagement.GetCategoryTemplate?

MV Adam

I'm working with Content Web Services on CS10, Service Pack, Update 11.

I have a category like so:

Category Name: "Varied Category", all attributes locked at 1, not required

Attribute 1:

  Name: "A Date"

  Type: Date Field

Attribute 2:

  Name: "An Integer"

  Type: Integer field

Attribute 3:

  Name: "A Text Field"

  Type: Text Field

 

Perform a call similar to:

DocumentManagement.AttributeGroup _attribGroups = DocumentManagement.GetCategoryTemplate( ref _otauth, category.DataID);

 

Inspect _attribGroups and you will find that for the Values field, The DateTimeValue and the IntegerValue DataValues both have default Values fields created, but string types are null. Easiest to see in a picture:

 

HFCDev

I suspect that the int and DateTime values that you saw are themselves nulls (note that the definition for the values array for the Integer attribute was int?[] not int[]).  However, I agree that for consistency, the stringValue attribute should have a single element array consisting of a null string.

Just out of curiosity, does this **** anything? YOu should still be able to set the values for your StringValue to a single element string array consisting of whatever value you want to set when you're setting metadata on the object. In the case of strings, it's easier to apply multi-values as you won't have to resize any arrays.

-Hugh