appHasProperty() and levureAppGet() don't handle multidim array?

[macMikey]

app.yml:

helpers:
  - folder: ./helpers
  - filename: "[[FRAMEWORK]]/helpers/preferences"
  - filename: "[[FRAMEWORK]]/helpers/logger"

levureAppHasProperty("helpers>folder") returns false

levureAppGet("helpers>folder") returns nothing

[macMikey]

The numeric indexes seem to make this harder to handle. Why did you numerically index the array, btw? Was that just a historical artifact?

[trevordevore]

It returns an array. Levure uses numerically indexed arrays throughout as that is how you can have a list of arrays in LiveCode.

LiveCode makes it easy to iterate over a numerically indexed array of arrays using ‘repeat for each element’. The engine will loop through the elements using the correct order.

repeat for each element tElementA in tArrayA

end repeat

[trevordevore]

Sorry, I misread this the first time. - in YAML represents a list. A numerically indexed array is how you represent a list and : represents an associative array. So the syntax created a list of associative arrays. In LiveCode that is represented with a numerically indexed array of arrays.

So the request you are making doesn’t make sense as helpers is not serving as an associative array, it is a list.

[macMikey]

If I do it for filename it also fails.

[trevordevore]

As it should. helpers is a numerically indexed array of arrays. There is no filename key at the root level. Just numerically indexed arrays.

[macMikey]

Sorry, I meant helpers>filename

[trevordevore]

That is how I read what you wrote. There is no filename key at the root of the helpers key.

[macMikey]

then when you're in a list, is the only way to make a subkey to make another list? If I try to make a subkey to an element that begins with a hyphen it doesn't seem to become a subkey.

[macMikey]

belay that. i think i read enough levure code to find what i was looking for.

[trevordevore]

Okay. If you still run into trouble post an example of what you are doing, what you expected to happen, and what is actually happening.