Storage system queryItems behavior

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Shinya O asked May 30 2024 at 2:28 AM Jacob W2 commented Mar 03 2025 at 6:36 PM

Storage system queryItems behavior

Hi,

The code below should return the number of all items in storage, but the behavior seems to change when "Find Item" query in the processing flow is executed with "Any Item".

return Storage.system.queryItems("").length;

In this model, initially 10 items enter Bay=1, at 10 seconds it searches for one item with Bay=1, and at 20 seconds it searches for one arbitrary item.

After that, When I run that code I expect it to return 8, but it returns 1.

Is my understanding correct?

Thanks in advance.queryItems.fsm

Software Version:

FlexSim 24.1.0

storage system finditem queryitems

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Answer 1 · 2024-05-30T06:30:37Z

Felix Möhlmann answered May 30 2024 at 6:30 AM

Looks like the same issue described in the post linked below.

Question about Storage.system.queryItems - FlexSim Community

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Shinya O commented · May 30 2024 at 7:48 AM

Thank you for your information.

The following code replicates the issue without using the Find Item activity as you have mentioned.

Storage.system.queryItems("", Storage.QueryFlags.Limit1);
return Storage.system.queryItems("").length;

If an empty query string is bad, I would like to avoid them as follows until this bug is fixed.

Storage.system.queryItems(" ", Storage.QueryFlags.Limit1);
return Storage.system.queryItems("").length;

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Felix Möhlmann Shinya O commented · May 30 2024 at 8:20 AM

One of our clients actually encountered this issue recently and we concluded that this might be an issue with caching queries. It's not necessarily the empty query string that is the problem. Any query string that was previously used in findItem() (either in code directly or the Find Item activity) will return only a single slotItem.

queryitems_1.fsm

Your workaround of using a single space in the query will work, as long as this same string is never used in findItem(). (But there isn't really any reason to do so, so I don't expect any problems.)

Since you provided a solution to the problem, it would be good if you could convert your comment to an answer an accept it.

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queryitems-1.fsm (41.7 KiB)

Shinya O Felix Möhlmann commented · May 30 2024 at 9:18 AM

This workaround is not practical for large scale models because there is no way to know which query strings have been cached. I would be grateful if there is a better way...

Hello @Jason Lightfoot , is this issue on the dev list?

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Answer 2 · 2025-02-28T09:59:25Z

Lucas Hermant answered Feb 28 2025 at 9:59 AM Jacob W2 commented Mar 03 2025 at 6:36 PM

Hi,

I encountered the very same issue described here on a large scale model. I have a lot of very complex queries in this model. This issues makes it really hard to make sure everything works as expected. I discovered the fix by testing a manuel query to check that my activities FindItem were performing as expected.

Is is a very disturbing issue that makes me doubt that flexsim queries are performing as expected.

Could it be possible to fix this issue please ?

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