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Use Properties with Map Type Lists

There are several properties for working with Map Type lists. Using these properties in rule criteria, you can retrieve information about a Map Type list, modify a list, create a new list, and also convert a list into a string.

To retrieve information about a Map Type list (map), you can:

  • Retrieve a map that you specify a name for
  • See whether a particular key exists within a map
  • Retrieve the number of key-value pairs in a map
  • Retrieve a list of the keys in a map
  • Retrieve the value for a given key in a map

The following properties are used to perform these activities.

Property Description

Map.ByName

Provides a map with the name that you specified.

Map.HasKey

Is true if the specified map includes the specified key.

Map.Size

Provides the number of key-value pairs in a map.

Map.GetKeys

Provides a list of the keys in a map.

Map.GetStringValue

Provides the string that is the value of the specified key in the specified map.

 

You can, for example, use the Map.GetStringValue property in the criteria of a rule to see whether a key in a list has a particular value. The key could be a user name and the value a string that serves as a token for authentication.

The criteria would then be configured as follows:

Map.GetStringValue (testmap, "sampleuser") equals "sampletoken"

If the sampleuser key has sampletoken as its value, the criteria matches, and the rule executes a particular action, for example, Continue.

When a map is modified, the modification is applied to a copy of the original map, while the original map itself remains unmodified. To modify a map in this way, you can:

  • Set a key to a particular value
  • Delete a key

The following properties are used to perform these activities.

Property Description

Map.SetStringValue

Provides a map in which the specified value is set for the specified key.

Map.DeleteKey

Provides a map in which the specified key is deleted.

To create a new map or convert a map into a string, the following properties are used.

Property Description

Map.CreateStringMap

Provides a new map, which is still empty.

Map.ToString

Provides a map converted into a string.

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