Can't change value of a variable in JS, using parseFromString - javascript

I have this line at the very beginning of a Chrome extension:
var macroXML = parser.parseFromString(localStorage["myMacro"], "text/xml").getElementsByTagName("section");
After doing some changes, I try to update macroXML, but nothing happens.
alert(macroXML[1]);
macroXML[1] = 'RAWR';
alert(macroXML[1]);
No errors, no anything. It outputs the exact same thing.
Anyone perhaps know why?

You are dealing with a dynamic nodes list. It will change if the document changes, e.g. to remove the second element from the list you can do:
macroXML[1].parentNode.removeChild(macroXML[1]);
Or you replace it by a different node:
var newNode = macroXML[1].ownerDocument.createElement("section");
macroXML[1].parentNode.replaceChild(newNode, macroXML[1]);
But you cannot work with that list as you would do with an array - for that you need an actual array. You can copy the list like this:
var macroArray = Array.prototype.slice.apply(macroXML);
macroArray[1] = 'RAWR';
This will work as expected then.

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Google Scripts - keep track of element [duplicate]

Update: This is a better way of asking the following question.
Is there an Id like attribute for an Element in a Document which I can use to reach that element at a later time. Let's say I inserted a paragraph to a document as follows:
var myParagraph = 'This should be highlighted when user clicks a button';
body.insertParagraph(0, myParagraph);
Then the user inserts another one at the beginning manually (i.e. by typing or pasting). Now the childIndex of my paragraph changes to 1 from 0. I want to reach that paragraph at a later time and highlight it. But because of the insertion, the childIndex is not valid anymore. There is no Id like attribute for Element interface or any type implementing that. CahceService and PropertiesService only accepts String data, so I can't store myParagraphas an Object.
Do you guys have any idea to achieve what I want?
Thanks,
Old version of the same question (Optional Read):
Imagine that user selects a word and presses the highlight button of my add-on. Then she does the same thing for several more words. Then she edits the document in a way that the start end end indexes of those highlighted words change.
At this point she presses the remove highlighting button. My add-on should disable highlighting on all previously selected words. The problem is that I don't want to scan the entire document and find any highlighted text. I just want direct access to those that previously selected.
Is there a way to do that? I tried caching selected elements. But when I get them back from the cache, I get TypeError: Cannot find function insertText in object Text. error. It seems like the type of the object or something changes in between cache.put() and cache.get().
var elements = selection.getSelectedElements();
for (var i = 0; i < elements.length; ++i) {
if (elements[i].isPartial()) {
Logger.log('partial');
var element = elements[i].getElement().asText();
var cache = CacheService.getDocumentCache();
cache.put('element', element);
var startIndex = elements[i].getStartOffset();
var endIndex = elements[i].getEndOffsetInclusive();
}
// ...
}
When I get back the element I get TypeError: Cannot find function insertText in object Text. error.
var cache = CacheService.getDocumentCache();
cache.get('text').insertText(0, ':)');
I hope I can clearly explained what I want to achieve.
One direct way is to add a bookmark, which is not dependent on subsequent document changes. It has a disadvantage: a bookmark is visible for everyone...
More interesting way is to add a named range with a unique name. Sample code is below:
function setNamedParagraph() {
var doc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
// Suppose you want to remember namely the third paragraph (currently)
var par = doc.getBody().getParagraphs()[2];
Logger.log(par.getText());
var rng = doc.newRange().addElement(par);
doc.addNamedRange("My Unique Paragraph", rng);
}
function getParagraphByName() {
var doc = DocumentApp.getActiveDocument();
var rng = doc.getNamedRanges("My Unique Paragraph")[0];
if (rng) {
var par = rng.getRange().getRangeElements()[0].getElement().asParagraph();
Logger.log(par.getText());
} else {
Logger.log("Deleted!");
}
}
The first function "marks" the third paragraph as named range. The second one takes this paragraph by the range name despite subsequent document changes. Really here we need to consider the exception, when our "unique paragraph" was deleted.
Not sure if cache is the best approach. Cache is volatile, so it might happen that the cached value doesn't exist anymore. Probably PropertiesService is a better choice.

Setting data info on dynamically created html

I have a JSON response from a server, which returns me a array with 32 objects (in this case). Something like this:
[{object1},{ object2},{ object3}, etc].
Each object have some info that I use to populate an html template. For that, I just use a simple loop:
for(var i = 0; i < api_empresaListar.length; i++)
{
var item = api_empresaListar[i];
var htmls;
htmls = $('...lots of html code');
...
Then it’s just a simple matter of finding/changing the values, and append items on the DOM. Everything works fine. BUT, for some next parts of the code, I would like to access all the info from the object I used to build the html elements (I just show part of the info). So, after searching a lot, I tried to use data, like this:
var tp = htmls.find(".rl_grupo"); // the main div of each html element created in the loop
$(tp).data('key', api_empresaListar[i]); // here, I expected to just insert the object data in each created item.
But when I try it in the console, I got the object info as expected, but always from the last element in the array. Why is that happening? I believe it might be something stupid, but I can’t figure it out.
So, any ideas on how to solve this, or another method to make this work is appreciated. I made it work by setting some "display:none" placeholder html tags and populate those with the info I need later, but looks like a poor solution...
You should not set your htmls variable in the loop. I think that you crush its content every turn, that's why you only have the last item. You should do something like this:
var htmls = $('<div></div>');
for(var i = 0; i < api_empresaListar.length; i++) {
htmls.append($('...lots of html code'));
}
How about setting an index number on each element inside of your html creating code, then iterating over the $('.rl_grupo') elements, like this?
$('.rl_grupo').each(function(){
var index = $(this).data('index');
var currentData = api_empresaListar[index];
$(this).data('key', currentData);
})

Protractor code to extract multiple paragraph text

how to fetch the values of all paragraph (p) at a time ..
for example below is how my inspect view looks like
"testing sample one."
"testing sample two."
and below is my code sample to extract the value of id 'run'
browser.findElement(by.css('[id=run]')).getText()
this just extract the first value or I can modify and get the second value of id.. my need is I need to get both values at one go.. in the same line of code.. could you please advise
Though missing an html-example and a bit more description of what you like to extract, I'll give it a try.
In general you could/should use element.all(by.css()), aka $$(), instead of browser.findElements, except you know exactly, why you use findElements.
Read some details about the difference here.
Then as mentioned in a comment already, there is a findElements() (see API-Doc for findElements() here), returning an array of all values, matching the criteria. Just you can't immediately use getText() on it, as you get an array of elements and getText() requires a single element (see API-Doc for getText() here). Therefore you'd need to pass it through some loop.
Without knowing enough context here a small set of ideas to pick from.
var allP = new Array();
var allPString = null; //if one long string is desired
//here I'm using now element.all() instead of browser.findElements
var allPEl = $$('p#run'); //equal to element.all(by.css('p[id=run]')); //returns array of all found elements
var allPElBrowser = browser.findElements(by.id('run')); //returns array of all found elements
var i = allPEl.length();
var j = 0;
allPEl.each().getText().then(function(text){ //getAttribute('value') instead of getText(), if getText doesn't work.
allP.push(text); //add it to Array
allPString += text+' '; //add to String with a space at the end
j++; //counter
if(i === j-1){continueTest()}; //call continuation at the end of last loop, due to asynchronous nature of 'then()'.
});
continueTest = function(){
allP.toString() //in case of comma separated list from Array is desired
// here comes the rest of your test case logic
};
Note, that I go with the assumption that you need resolved promises, so the content of your <p>'s to continue.
If you can continue just with the array of <p>-objects, which you later resolve within an expect() all you need is $$('p#id');.
If the solution doesn't work for you, let me know, what part is still missing or where problems occur.

Traverse XML with jQuery to get element value

I have some XML that looks like so:
<closure1>
<topClosure>
<ellipsoidalHead>
<standardComponentData>
<variousElements>
<idNumber>234567</idNumber>
<nominalThickness units="in">0.3750</nominalThickness>
</standardComponentData>
</ellipsoidalHead>
</topClosure>
</closure1>
<shell>
<standardComponentData>
<various_elements>
<nominalThickness units="in">0.6250</nominalThickness>
<idNumber>123456</idNumber>
</standardComponentData>
</shell>
<nozzle>
<standardComponentData>
<various_elements>
<attachedToidNumber>123456</attachedToidNumber>
</standardComponentData>
<nozzle>
In my JS code, I already have the <nozzle> element bomNode as a jQuery set, i.e.
var bomNode = $("nozzle");
So, for each nozzle element, I need to
Get the value of <attachedToidNumber> in the <nozzle> element.
Find the element that contains the <idNumber> that matches
<attachedToidNumber> (<shell> in this case).
Get the value in the <nominalThickess>
element.
As you can see, the depth of the desired <idNumber> element can vary. This is also a very small subset of the whole XML structure, so it can be very large.
I've tried something like this:
var attachedToElement = bomNode.parents().find('idNumber').text() === attachedToId;
but I get false returned. What's the easiest way to get the desired idNumber value? I'm sure it's something simple, but I'm just missing it.
Thanks.
UPDATE: I realized that bomNode is at the top level, I don't need to go up. a level. Doing something like this
var attachedToElement = bomNode.parents().siblings().find('idNumber')
gives me a list of children elements that have an <idNumber> element. So, I need to find the one that has the desired value. My thought is to use .each(). However, that value is defined outside of the .each() function, so I don't have anything to match against. Once I have the list of matches, what's the easiest way to get the set that has the <idNumber> value I want?
You were right - you missed a simple thing:
shell is not a parent of nozzle. They are siblings. Try this:
var attachedToElement = bomNode.siblings().find('idNumber').text() === attachedToId;
But this would return true (if true) - not the actual value.

Need to get an array of the names of all applicationScope variables

In an application I am working on I need to get a list of the names of all applicationScope variable then I need to cycle through them and filter out the ones starting with a know string say $xyx. I thought that the applicationScope.keySet().
I'm using this code for starter:
var col = applicationScope.keySet();
var itr:java.util.Iterator = col.iterator();
if (itr.hasNext()){
var str:String = itr.next();
dBar.info(str,"Value = ");
}
if I put the variable col in a viewScope it shows a list of all the keys. but when I run the script the values displayed in the dBar info are not the keys but some other information that I'm not sure where it comes from.
I should just be able to iterat through the list of keys, am I missing something?
This code is in the before page loads event
After some poking around and experimenting I got this to work:
var col = applicationScope.keySet();
var itr:java.util.Iterator = col.iterator();
while (itr.hasNext()){
var str:Map.Entry = itr.next();
if (str.substring(0,9) == "$wfsLock_"){
//do stuff
}
}
so I'm now a happy camper.
Although your code works in SSJS, it is not correct (and that's why I don't like SSJS...).
The applicationScope is an implementation of the java.util.Map interface and the keySet() method returns a Set containing the keys in that Map. Every entry is (probably) a String (other data types like integers are actually also valid). The line
var str:Map.Entry = itr.next();
doesn't cast it to a Map.Entry: it doesn't really do anything: str remains a string.
The Map interface also has an entrySet() method that returns the entries (Map.Entry). You can use that to retrieve the key as well as the value:
var it = applicationScope.entrySet().iterator();
while (it.hasNext()) {
var entry = it.next();
print( entry.getKey() + " = " + entry.getValue() );
}
(in this code the print() line will use the toString() method of the key as well as the value to send information to the console)
I see from your code that you've installed my XPages Debug Toolbar. You can also use that to quickly check what's in the scopes and what the actual datatype is.

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