Traversing DCR tree problem

intel

Hi all,
I'm using javascript to traverse the DCR tree and modify an item if its called "order". I need to do this to create unique identifiers for insertion with DataDeploy. I'm simply using getRootItems, then calling getChildren on each of these elements, and if that returns a value, recursing through and finding their children etc. Thats the plan, but it doesn't work. There are quite a few levels of replicant nesting here (maybe 4 or 5). Running the function with debugging messages in reveals that it gets down to 2 or 3 recursions then jumps back out and stays doing this infinitely.
The function is below, its called with the onSaveValid handler: genIdentity("root");


function genIdentity(name)
{
var rootItems=[];
var children=[];
(name == "root")?rootItems = IWDatacapture.getRootItems():rootItems[0] = IWDatacapture.getItem(name);

for (var i=0; i<rootItems.length; i++) {
children = rootItems.getChildren();
if (children) {
for (var j=0; j<children.length; j++) {
genIdentity(children.getName());
}
}
var orderName = rootItems.getName() + "\/order";
var orderValue = IWDatacapture.getItem(orderName);
if (orderValue) orderValue.setValue(i+1);
}

return true;
}

Any help would be gratefully received.

Cheers
Jason

Michael

Hi Jason

One potential problem you have is with this line:
var orderName = rootItems.getName() + "\/order";

You have defined rootItems above to be an array of items. Therefore you probably shouldn't be calling getName() on the array. Perhaps you meant:
var orderName = rootItems.getName() + "\/order"; ?

hth

Cheers
Michael