Extends

• ArchBaseActionWithOutputsDefault

Members

static, readonly displayTypeName :string

Returns the display type name string 'ArchActionSwitch'.

readonly caseCount :number

Returns the current case count on the switch action not including the Default case.

readonly caseCountMax :number

Returns the maximum number of cases allowed in a switch action not including the Default case. The value is 64.

readonly caseCountMin :number

Returns the minimum number of cases allowed in a switch action not including the Default case. The value is 1.

readonly displayTypeNameArchitect :string

The Architect action type label

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseAction#displayTypeNameArchitect

readonly evaluationStyle :string

The evaluation style to use on the switch action. The string values in ArchEnums#SWITCH_EVALUATION_STYLES lists valid values.

readonly id :string

The identifier string for this object.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseCoreObjectWithId#id

readonly idMayBeBlank :string

Returns whether or not the id property may be blank or undefined for this object. For example, the returned settings from ArchMenu#settingsMenu will have a blank identifier along with the settings returned from ArchMenu#settingsSpeechRec. Note that this is an extremely rare case.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseCoreObjectWithId#idMayBeBlank

See:

• ArchBaseCoreObjectWithId#id

readonly isArchActionSwitch :boolean

Returns true indicating that this action is an ArchActionSwitch instance.

readonly isArchBaseCoreObject :boolean

Returns true indicating that this is an ArchBaseCoreObject instance.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseCoreObject#isArchBaseCoreObject

readonly isMenuChoiceAction :boolean

Returns whether or not this action is the action property for a menu choice. For example, the ArchMenuDisconnect#actionDisconnect property on an ArchMenuDisconnect instance.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseAction#isMenuChoiceAction

readonly isReachable :boolean

Returns whether or not this action is reachable at runtime.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseAction#isReachable

readonly isSecure :boolean

Returns whether or not this action is secure which means either the action by its very nature is secure or it consumes secure data.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseAction#isSecure

readonly isUnreachable :boolean

Returns whether or not this action is unreachable at runtime.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseAction#isUnreachable

readonly logStr :string

A string suitable for logging that contains information about this action. This will contain the action tracking id, name and scripting type name.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseAction#logStr

readonly logStrTypeOnly :string

This is a string suitable for logging information about this object where it's just the object's type. This is normally used when logging errors that occur in constructor parameter checking because the scripting object isn't set up and the normal logging str contents wouldn't be set up.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseObject#logStrTypeOnly

name :string

The name of the action

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseAction#name

readonly outputCount :number

Returns the number of outputs on this action. For actions that have a fake success output like what you see on the various transfer actions, that will be included in the count to be consistent with the Architect UI. Attempting to get the output count on a menu choice's action such as such as the ArchMenuTransferToAcd#actionTransferToAcd action on an ArchMenuTransferToAcd menu will return 0.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseActionWithOutputs#outputCount

readonly outputDefault :ArchActionOutput

The Default output for this action

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseActionWithOutputsDefault#outputDefault

readonly outputs :Array.<ArchActionOutput>

Returns an array of action outputs for this action. Remember that it is possible to have an undefined item in the returned ArchActionOutput array. This is true when the output is "fake". Accessing the outputs on a menu choice's action such as ArchMenuTransferToAcd#actionTransferToAcd will return an empty array.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseActionWithOutputs#outputs

readonly parentFlow :ArchBaseFlow

Returns the parent flow for this action.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseAction#parentFlow

readonly parentMenuChoice :ArchBaseMenuChoice

Returns the parent menu choice if this action is the action for a menu choice. Otherwise, nothing is returned.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseAction#parentMenuChoice

readonly parentState :ArchState

Returns the parent state that contains this action if this action is in a state. Otherwise, nothing is returned.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseAction#parentState

readonly parentTask :ArchTask|ArchTaskLoop

Returns the parent task that contains this action if this action is in a task or looping task. Otherwise, nothing is returned.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseAction#parentTask

readonly switchDataType :ArchDataType

The data type that will be used to switch on for the action. This is determined from the expression set on the ArchActionSwitch#setExpressionSwitch function. Can be null.

readonly trackingId :number

The integer tracking identifier for this action. This is the numeric identifier is displayed in the Architect user interface.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseAction#trackingId

Methods

addCase() → {ArchBaseValue}

Adds a case to the switch action and returns the value associated with the case.

Returns:

ArchBaseValue

deleteCaseByIndex(index)

Deletes a case from the switch action at the specified index.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
index	number	the zero based index of the case to delete. This value should be a non-negative integer. For example: for Case 1, pass in 0.

getCaseValue(index) → {ArchBaseValue}

Returns the Architect value associated with the switch case at the specified index. The value's type will match the ArchActionSwitch#switchDataType type.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
index	number	the zero based index of the case to retrieve. This value should be a non-negative integer. For example: for Case 1, pass in 0.

Returns:

ArchBaseValue

getOutputById(output) → {ArchActionOutput}

Gets an output by its identifier. If it cannot be found, this method will throw. Normally you won't need to use this method and will use the helper methods available on inheriting classes when accessing pre-defined outputs like success, failure, timeout, etc. etc. Attempting to get an output by id on a menu choice's action such as the ArchMenuTransferToAcd#actionTransferToAcd action on an ArchMenuTransferToAcd menu will return nothing.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
output	string | ArchBranch	identifies output you want to obtain. If output is an ArchBranch instance, the ArchBranch#outputId value will be used. Otherwise valid string identifier values can be found in ArchEnums#OUTPUT_IDS or can be a guid. Remember that requesting the 'success' output on an action with a fake success output will return nothing.

Returns:

ArchActionOutput

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseActionWithOutputs#getOutputById

getOutputByIndex(index) → {ArchActionOutput}

Returns the output at the given index. It's important to note that on actions that have a fake success output if you request the output at the index for the fake success, you will get nothing returned because the fake success output isn't something that you should do anything with. Attempting to access an output by index on a menu choice's action such as ArchMenuTransferToAcd#actionTransferToAcd will return nothing.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
index	number	the index of the output to retrieve. This value should be a non-negative integer.

Returns:

ArchActionOutput

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseActionWithOutputs#getOutputByIndex

getOutputByName(output, wantDynamicOutputopt) → {ArchActionOutput}

Gets an output by its identifier. If it cannot be found, this method will throw. Normally you won't need to use this method and will use the helper methods available on inheriting classes when accessing pre-defined outputs like success, failure, timeout, etc. etc. Attempting to get an output by id on a menu choice's action such as the ArchMenuTransferToAcd#actionTransferToAcd action on an ArchMenuTransferToAcd menu will return nothing.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Attributes	Default	Description
output	string | ArchBranch			identifies output you want to obtain by name. If output is an ArchBranch instance, the ArchBranch#name value will be used. Remember that requesting the 'Success' output on an action with a fake success output will return nothing. For non-dynamic outputs, the name should be specified in English.
wantDynamicOutput	boolean	<optional>	false	because it is possible for some actions to have both a non-dynamic output and a dynamic output with the same name, this boolean will let you specify which output you want. An example of this would be the built in Failure output on a call bot action but that bot also has an intent named Failure so the action has two outputs with the same name of 'Failure'. Only one of those would be a dynamic output and that's the output for the Failure intent, not the built-in Failure action output.

Returns:

ArchActionOutput

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseActionWithOutputs#getOutputByName

isFilterMatch(archFilterObject) → {boolean}

Returns whether or not this Architect Scripting object is a match for the supplied ArchFilterObject instance.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
archFilterObject	ArchFilterObject	the object filter to use to determine if it's a match.

Returns:

boolean

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseObject#isFilterMatch

logError(errorStr)

Logs an error to the logging service with a log header from this object's logStr property value when ArchLogging#logErrors is true.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
errorStr	string	the error string to log.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseObject#logError

logErrorAndThrow(errorStr)

Logs an error to the logging service with a log header from this object's logStr property value when ArchLogging#logErrors is true and then throws the string in the errorStr parameter.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
errorStr	string	the error string to log. This should be a non-blank string.

Throws:

• Throws the submitted error string.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseObject#logErrorAndThrow

logNote(noteStr)

Logs a note to the logging service with a log header from this object's logStr property value when ArchLogging#logNotes is true.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
noteStr	string	the note string to log. This should be a non-blank string.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseObject#logNote

logNoteVerbose(noteStr)

Logs a note to the logging service with a log header from this object's logStr property value when ArchLogging#logNotesVerbose is true.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
noteStr	string	the note string to log. This should be a non-blank string.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseObject#logNoteVerbose

logWarning(warningStr)

Logs a warning to the logging service with a log header from this object's logStr property value when ArchLogging#logWarnings is true.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Description
warningStr	string	the warning string to log. This should be a non-blank string.

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseObject#logWarning

setExpressionSwitch(expressionText, caseExpressionOrExpressionsopt) → {ArchDataType}

Sets the evaluation style to 'matchExpression' and determines the data type to switch on at runtime based on the resulting type of the passed in expression.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Attributes	Description
expressionText	string		the value to switch on at runtime. For example, if the expression is Flow.MyIntegerVar and Flow.MyIntegerVar is of type integer, then the value to switch on will be of type integer the case values will also be of type integer. The resulting data type of the expression text must be a script creatable data type.
caseExpressionOrExpressions	string | Array.<string>	<optional>	if a string, the expression to set on each case in the switch action. If a string array, the switch action will be configured to have one case for each string in the string array. If there are no strings in the array, one case statement will be present configured to no value. If an item in the string array is null or undefined, that specific case will be configured to be no value. The maximum number of items allowed is available from the ArchActionSwitch#caseCountMax.

Returns:

ArchDataType -

• the data type that will be used by the switch action at runtime.

See:

• ArchDataType.isScriptCreatableForFlowType

setFirstTrueSwitch() → {ArchDataType}

Sets the evaluation style to 'matchFirstTrue' and sets the data type to switch on to be Boolean with a switch value of true. The first case value that evaluates to true will be taken at runtime. If none of the cases evaluate to true, the default output will be taken. This action will set all of the cases to have a value of false by default.

Returns:

ArchDataType -

• returns the Boolean Architect data type.

traverse(callbackFunction, traverseFilteropt) → {number}

This method iterates over this object and ArchBaseCoreObject instances within it. For each object it will call the ArchBaseObject#isFilterMatch method with a filter and call the supplied callback function if isMatch returns true. The callback will be passed an ArchTraverseInfo with details about the match such as the match object itself along with current contextual information such as the object hierarchy for the match object relative to the object on which this traverse call is being made.

The traverse filter is one which you can create by calling ArchFactoryFilters#createFilterObject and then add desired clauses or clause containers to it. If not specified, this function will use a default filter.

Here is an example that does a simple flow traversal using the default filter and logs information about objects in the callback from the traverse object that's passed back:

archInboundCallFlow.traverse(function(traverseInfo) {
   archLogging.logNote('  Object     : ' + traverseInfo.matchObject.logStr);
   archLogging.logNote('    Hierarchy: ' + traverseInfo.context.hierarchyStr);
});

This might be enough for most uses and you can check various aspects about the object in the callback such as "is this an Architect action?" by seeing if traverseInfo.matchObject.isArchBaseAction is true. You can specify a filter for the traversal code to use as well and only have it call your callback when the object's ArchBaseCoreObject#isFilterMatch method returns true for the filter. Here's an example that creates a filter for callbacks on any type of transfer action, any decision action or objects whose name property case insensitively matches the word 'foo'. While this could all be done with one property callback clause the example will use multiple clauses for the sake of simplicity:

const myTraverseFilter = filterFactory.createFilterObject(archEnums.FILTER_CONTAINER_OPERATORS.or);
myTraverseFilter.addClausePropertyValueEquals('isArchBaseActionTransfer', true);
myTraverseFilter.addClausePropertyValueEquals('isArchActionDecision',     true);
myTraverseFilter.addClausePropertyCallback('name', function(propValue, archContainingObject, propName) {
      // We fully spelled out the function signature above but archContainingObject and propName are
      // not needed in this case.  The archContainingObject is the object that contains the
      // property and propName is the property name itself.  We pass in propName because the same
      // function could be used for multiple property callback clauses.
      // Remember to return a boolean true, false or undefined from ths callback.  :)
      return propValue && propValue.toLowerCase() === 'foo';
});
archTask.traverse(function(traverseContext) {
   // You will only be called back here for ArchBaseCoreObject instances that
   // have the isArchBaseActionTransfer or isArchActionDecision property values equal to true.
}, myTraverseFilter);

If you supply a filter with no clauses, this tells the traverse method to call the supplied callback function for every ArchBaseCoreObject it traverses.

If you want traversal itself to stop after a callback, simply return boolean false from the callback function you supply to the traverse call.

The traverse method does not process deprecated property names such as orgId, orgName or languageSettings. Additionally it does not traverse in to properties that would "jump out" of the current traversal. An example of this would be if the code was traversing an ArchActionJumpToMenu action that it would not start traversing in to the menu that it jumps to. Another example would be a ArchActionChangeState action where it would not traverse in to the target state of the action. This also means traversal does not traverse in to the ArchBaseValue#flowLevelDefault property.

And lastly, as Scripting evolves over time with new versions, you can expect to get callbacks for new object types such as new actions or new properties on objects. As such, it's important not to assume any particular order in callbacks to keep code most compatible with traversal callbacks. Or if you use inequality checks in filter clauses remember that new "stuff" may satisfy an inequality check which may or may not be anticipated in your logic.

Note: This traverse method is a helper method and is very handy for iterating over Architect Scripting objects and their properties in a generic fashion with filtering capabilities. Obviously you can write your own custom traversal code if this implementation doesn't cut it for some reason. :)

This function returns the number of times it called the callback function.

Parameters:

Name	Type	Attributes	Default	Description
callbackFunction	callbackTraverseInfo			the callback function to call for objects that match the traverse filter.
traverseFilter	ArchFilterObject	<optional>	ArchFactoryFilters#createFilterTraverseDefault	the filter to use when performing the traversal to determine which ArchBaseCoreObject instances you wish to be called back for. If no filter is specified, this function will call ArchFactoryFilters#createFilterTraverseDefault and use that traversal default filter. The wantArchBaseValues parameter on that call is set to true.

Returns:

number

Inherited From:

• ArchBaseCoreObject#traverse