• Global community
    • Language:
      • Deutsch
      • English
      • Español
      • Français
      • Português
  • 日本語コミュニティ
    Dedicated community for Japanese speakers
  • 한국 커뮤니티
    Dedicated community for Korean speakers
Exit
0

StructKeyExists Question

Contributor ,
Feb 21, 2022 Feb 21, 2022

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

Hi,

I have a stuct that looks like this:Screen Shot 2022-02-21 at 6.04.50 PM.png

If I need to display the attributes array. This works:

<cfoutput>#shipment_response.data.rates["9"].attributes[1]#</cfoutput>

 However sometimes the Array is [empty]. How can I determine if it exists? I tried: 

<cfif StructKeyExists(shipment_response.data.rates["9"], "attributes[1]")>
<cfoutput>#shipment_response.data.rates["9"].attributes[1]#</cfoutput> 
</cfif>

It doesn't execute the cfoutput either way (exists or empty). What am I doing wrong with StructKeyExists?

 

Thanks in advance for any suggestions!


Gary

Views

139

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines

correct answers 2 Correct answers

Community Expert , Feb 21, 2022 Feb 21, 2022

Gary, use the little-known arrayisdefined, introduced in cf8. 

 

Or there can be times when this sort of problem might be solved as well using either the elvis operator or the safe navigation operator.

 

Let us know if any works for you. 

Votes

Translate

Translate
Community Expert , Feb 22, 2022 Feb 22, 2022

Hi @ghanna1 ,

What a delightful coincidence. I worked in shipping logistics for 6 years, and processing XML data similar to yours was the daily grind. 🙂

 

Your current approach is on the right track. A response may or may not have attributes. When it does, then the attributes array is either empty or non-empty.

 

With that in mind, you could extend your approach as follows:

<!--- Does 'rates["9"]' have an 'attributes' key? True or False --->
<cfset attributesArrayExists = structKeyExists(shipme
...

Votes

Translate

Translate
Community Expert ,
Feb 21, 2022 Feb 21, 2022

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

Gary, use the little-known arrayisdefined, introduced in cf8. 

 

Or there can be times when this sort of problem might be solved as well using either the elvis operator or the safe navigation operator.

 

Let us know if any works for you. 


/Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart.org)

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Contributor ,
Feb 21, 2022 Feb 21, 2022

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

Thanks Charlie. ArrayIsDefined works perfect!

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Community Expert ,
Feb 21, 2022 Feb 21, 2022

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

Great to hear, and glad to help.


/Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart.org)

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Community Expert ,
Feb 22, 2022 Feb 22, 2022

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

Hi @ghanna1 ,

What a delightful coincidence. I worked in shipping logistics for 6 years, and processing XML data similar to yours was the daily grind. 🙂

 

Your current approach is on the right track. A response may or may not have attributes. When it does, then the attributes array is either empty or non-empty.

 

With that in mind, you could extend your approach as follows:

<!--- Does 'rates["9"]' have an 'attributes' key? True or False --->
<cfset attributesArrayExists = structKeyExists(shipment_response.data.rates["9"], "attributes")>

<cfif attributesArrayExists>
    <!--- Is 'attributes' array non-empty? True or False --->
    <cfset attributesArrayIsNonEmpty = arrayLen(shipment_response.data.rates["9"].attributes) gt 0>

    <cfif attributesArrayIsNonEmpty>
        <!--- Do your stuff here --->
    </cfif>
</cfif>

 

Or, in short:

 

<cfif structKeyExists(shipment_response.data.rates["9"], "attributes") and 
      arrayLen(shipment_response.data.rates["9"].attributes) gt 0>
      <!--- Do your stuff here --->
<cfelse>
    <!--- Handle exception here: "attributes" doesn't exist or is an empty array --->
</cfif>

 

 

 

 

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Contributor ,
Feb 22, 2022 Feb 22, 2022

Copy link to clipboard

Copied

LATEST

Thank you! This is something I've had on the back burner for years to save our fulfilment team the task of double data entry between our portal and UPS. We've used the UPS API before but after writing all the code they dumped the particular platform we were using for a more secure method. A few days ago I stumbled upon the Shippo API which allows you to compare multiple carriers, print the label then uses webhooks to update the status and delivery. Way more functionality than UPS and easier to work with.

 

G

Votes

Translate

Translate

Report

Report
Community guidelines
Be kind and respectful, give credit to the original source of content, and search for duplicates before posting. Learn more
community guidelines
Resources
Documentation