Factories

For each package defined in the business object model in the project, or in any projects upon which the project depends, there is an instance of a factory available in the form script editors. These are accessed via the available factory variable in each script.

New instances of complex types are created via the use of these factories. Each factory has a set of superflous methods that can be used to create instances of the classes defined within that package.

The factory for each package is referenced via an instance variable of the form: factory.<business-object-model-name>, where <business-object-model-name> is the fully qualified BOM package name, with "." replaced by an underscore "_" .

A create method for each class is provided with the signature:

<class-name> create<class-name>([json | object])

For example, suppose the package com.example.customer contains classes for Customer and Address. We would create instances of each of these objects using the following:

var address = factory.com_example_customer.createAddress();
var customer = factory.com_example_customer.createCustomer();

A factory is only available for packages that directly contain class definitions. For example, there would not be a factory for the com.example package if there were no classes defined directly in that package.

The content assist in any script editor displays the available factories after typing factory. Only factories for packages in the current project or referenced projects are displayed.

create<bom-class-name>([json | object])