I am working on a controller that takes an sObject record and finds the values of a list of field names on an Asset:
for (var fid in fsNamesList) {
var fieldname = fid;
var fieldvalue = sobjectrecord[fid];
}
This works well with fid = 'Name', but it falls apart when the field refers to a parent object, such as (Asset).Contact.LastName.
I tested with explicit references, and Asset[Name] works, while Asset[Contact.LastName] does not.
Does anyone have a workaround?
Objects are "nested" within each other when you speak of parent-child relationships. For example, given Contact.LastName, your object looks like this:
{ Name: "My Asset", Contact: { LastName: "Fear" } }
Which means you have to navigate through the path. Hard-coded, it would look like this:
sobjectrecord['Contact']['LastName']
Dynamically speaking, you can simply follow the path:
function fieldValue(record, fieldPath) {
var path = fieldPath.split(/\./), temp = record;
while(path.length) temp = temp[path.shift()];
return temp;
}
(You could also use forEach or another method; this was meant primarily to be demonstrative).
