I am getting an error in Webscript

[shanmugaraja]

I have a web script: and having a variable catSearchPath

var catSearchPath = "PATH:\"/cm:categoryRoot/cm:generalclassifiable/cm:" + categories[j].replace(/\+/g,"_x0020_").replace(/&/g,"_x0026_").replace(/\//g, "/cm:");
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However in another place I am using the JS function in the same web script.

function getSpaceXPath(disPath,rootsapce){
   var spacePath="PATH:\"";
   var disPPath=disPath.split("/")
   for (k=1;k<disPPath.length;k++ ){
      if (disPPath[k]=="Company Home"){
         spacePath+="/app:company_home";
      }
      else{
         var value=disPPath[k];
         spacePath+="/cm:"+value.(/ /g,"_x0020_").replace(/&/g,"_x0026_");      }
   }
spacePath+="/cm:"+rootsapce+"//*\""
return spacePath;
}
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In the first case the script replace the "+" with "_0020_"; in the second case the script is throwing error, It is not replaing the space to "_0020_"

ERROR is

Failed to execute script 'workspace://SpacesStore//Company Home/Data Dictionary/Web Scripts/org/alfresco/bg/portlet/links/links.get.js': Failed to execute script 'workspace://SpacesStore//Company Home/Data Dictionary/Web Scripts/org/alfresco/bg/portlet/links/links.get.js': The choice of Java constructor replace matching JavaScript argument types (function,string) is ambiguous; candidate constructors are: class java.lang.String replace(java.lang.CharSequence,java.lang.CharSequence) class java.lang.String replace(char,char) (AlfrescoScript#76)  
   
Exception: org.mozilla.javascript.EvaluatorException - The choice of Java constructor replace matching JavaScript argument types (function,string) is ambiguous; candidate constructors are: class java.lang.String replace(java.lang.CharSequence,java.lang.CharSequence) class java.lang.String replace(char,char) (AlfrescoScript#76)  

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Any help is appriciated. Thanks

[mark_smithson]

are you missing a replace on this line?

spacePath+="/cm:"+value.(/ /g,"_x0020_").replace(/&/g,"_x0026_");‍‍

should it be

spacePath+="/cm:"+value.replace(/ /g,"_x0020_").replace(/&/g,"_x0026_");‍

[shanmugaraja]

Hi Mark

Thanks for your response. I am sorry i missed the replace while cut and copy in the posting,

In the actual code i have the code snippet what you have pointed out.  Thanks you so much for poiting out.

spacePath+="/cm:"+value.replace(/ /g,"_x0020_").replace(/&/g,"_x0026_"); 
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The above one gives error which i have mentioned.

I do not know why one place it works fine with javascript regex another place it is not working. I need to replace all the spaces and all the "&"


How ever the below one is not giving the error.

spacePath+="/cm:"+value.replace(" ","_x0020_").replace("&","_x0026_");
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however it is not replacing all the spaces and "&"

Any help is appricited. Thanks in advance.

[mark_smithson]

I think it is actually using a java implementation under the covers.

This means that you need something like

spacePath+="/cm:"+value.replaceAll(" ","_x0020_").replaceAll("&","_x0026_");

rather than the standard javascript replace function. It seems you have a java string and not a javascript string

[alrice]

Does this mean one cannot use typical javascript string code like this?

var trimmed = str.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '') ;

thanks,
Alex

[alrice]

oops, if you call trim() on a string in Alfresco java script, it's really processed by Java.lang.string.trim() ? apparently that's what seems to be happening! well that's helpful to know there is a trim function.

[robain]

This issue is a bit crazy.
using the trim() function works sometimes versus others, this is the error that i get with the same code at different time.
: TypeError: Cannot find function trim. (AlfrescoScript#84

then if i use
args[arg].replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '') ;
it works sometimes but it also gives error on some other instances
candidate constructors are: class java.lang.String replace(java.lang.CharSequence,java.lang.CharSequence) class java.lang.String replace(char,char) (AlfrescoScript#40)

Can someone clear this up. what are the dependencies here. Thanks.

[depourtales]

Hi,

I had the same problem applying a regular expression to a string to trim it. I found an easy solution to this, instantiating a new String, so that the replace operates on a standard JavaScript String :

function trimString(str) {
  var s = new String(str);
  return s.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g, '');
}
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[jzulu2000]

if you have the following code:
var x = 'some string to replace in';

You can use the following code for the replaceAll to work…

x = new java.lang.String(x).replaceAll(" ", "_x0020_");

[savic_prvoslav]

This is one of the ways to replace all

var x = "jbpm$132     ;";

while(x.indexOf(" ") >-1){
   x=x.replace(' ','');
}