How to check whether a treenode pointer reference is an object or a flowitem?

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Allyson asked May 1, '23 Jason Lightfoot edited May 2, '23

How to check whether a treenode pointer reference is an object or a flowitem?

I have a model where I have messages being sent to a FR object, where the message sender is either a flowitem or another FR object. The FlexScript code that is triggered by the message will need to have two different execution paths depending on whether the sender is a flowitem or an object. Is there a way to know this? I know of the isclasstype() command, but I'm not sure if it's possible to use this command to check for reference to a flowitem (since flowitems don't have a class attribute node). I'm assuming not. If not, I'm not sure what I can use.

I'm doing this in FlexScript so I'm looking for the specific command reference if possible.

Thanks in advance!

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FlexSim 23.1.0

flexscript item object type class

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Mischa Spelt commented · May 02, 2023 at 11:09 AM

If the message has two different execution paths depending on the sender, isn't it better to send two different messages altogether? Presumably where you send the message you do know if it's a flow item or a FR?

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Answer 1 · 2023-05-02T11:44:52Z

Jason Lightfoot answered May 2, '23 Jason Lightfoot edited May 2, '23

The correct way to test for a flowitem is to check the existence of the 'itemtype' node.

objectexists(itemtype(object))

Since taskexecuter flow items have a class node, testing for the class alone isn't strictly enough.

If you do want to test for an object being classless you can use:

object.getProperty("Class")==NULL;

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Allyson commented · May 02, 2023 at 04:59 PM

Thank you! I knew that the flowitems didn't have a class attribute node but I can't believe I didn't think to exploit that fact to achieve what I needed. Very clever solution, bravo. Appreciate the help!

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