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larand54

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Registered: 2018-12-25

Posts: 104

IList<T> in services

I'm very fond of IList but I'm trapped by the fact that I have to declare it as a constant in the parameter list on a service method.
So there is no way to initialize it.

I'm sure that there is a solution to this but at the moment I'm lost.

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Delphi-11, WIN10

ab

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Registered: 2010-06-21

Posts: 14,653

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Re: IList<T> in services

We did not validate that IList<T> would work as expected for the services... even as a "const" parameter...
AFAIR the only kind of interface supported is for websockets/async callbacks, not lists...

What does currently work, from your tests?

larand54

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Registered: 2018-12-25

Posts: 104

Re: IList<T> in services

I solved it by replacing IList with an ordinary dynamic array for the service. It requires some more coding but it works. I kept using IList in the repository though as I can initiate the collection in the service before calling the repository methods.

It seems to require too much effort to be worth solving ?

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Delphi-11, WIN10

tbo

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Registered: 2015-04-20

Posts: 353

Re: IList<T> in services

It seems to require too much effort to be worth solving ?

In the client program I work with Spring4D. Here there is also an IList. For this I have connections for various components. The bridge between the two looks like this:

type
  TOrmArticleList = class(Spring.Collections.Lists.TObjectList<TOrmArticle>);
  TOrmArticleObjArray = array of TOrmArticle;

function ...CreateArticleList(const pmcSectionID: TID): TOrmArticleList;
var
  service: IArticle;
  dataArr: TOrmArticleObjArray;
begin
  if not dmDB.RestServer.Resolve(IArticle, service) then Exit(Nil); //=>

  service.GetAllItems(pmcSectionID, [asActive], dataArr);
  Result := TOrmArticleList.Create(dataArr, True);
end;

mORMot provides an ObjArray that fills the list. With the Spring4D classes I have many functions that I don't have to implement myself. If you only need the IList interface, you can write like this:

Result := TCollections.CreateObjectList<TOrmArticle>(dataArr, True);

With best regards
Thomas