#20 More than one field returned with getGroupField

[Anonymous]

When trying to fetch a field with record.getGroupField("A", "B-LINE-CNT") it returns both

A.B-LINE-CNT and A.D.B-LINE-CNT.

      01  A.                                             
           05 B-LINE-CNT          PIC S999   COMP-3.               
           05 C.                            
           05 D REDEFINES C.                          
               10 B-LINE-CNT      PIC S999   COMP-3. 

How can I just fetch the 1 field?

Thanks for your time

[Bruce Martin]

Try the followin (see attached program for test program):

    static IFieldDetail getFld(RecordDetail r, String... fieldNames) {
        List<IFieldDetail> groupFields = r.getGroupFields(fieldNames);

        switch (groupFields.size()) {
        case 0: throw new RuntimeException("No field found");
        case 1: return groupFields.get(0);
        }

        if (fieldNames.length > 1) {
            String lastGroup = "." + fieldNames[fieldNames.length - 2].toLowerCase() + ".";
            IFieldDetail fld = null;
            int cmpSize = 1;
            boolean multi = false;
            for (int i = fieldNames.length - 2; i>= 0; i-- ) {
                cmpSize += fieldNames[i].length() + 1;
            }
            for (IFieldDetail f : groupFields) {
                String gn = ((FieldDetail) f).getGroupName().toLowerCase();
                if (gn.endsWith(lastGroup)) {
                    if (cmpSize == gn.length()) {
                        return f;
                    }
                    multi = fld != null;
                    fld = f;
                }
            }

            if (! multi) {
                return fld;
            }
        }

        throw new RuntimeException("multiple fields found");
    }

I will add this to JRecord, but I wont release it until I have more changes.

[Anonymous]

Thanks Bruce, you're awesome! Any plans to eventually push such functionality into the JRecord codebase?

And thanks again.

[Bruce Martin]

I will include it in JRecord (probably in record.getGroupField(..) method. It should be in the next release when ever that comes out.

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[Bruce Martin]

The functionality should be in Version 0.90