Cannot pass array values to JSONServiceAction

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: None
• Fix Version/s: 6.0.12 EE, 6.1.0 CE RC1
• Component/s: ~[Archived] WCM
• Labels: None

This is meant to fix the portal JSONServiceAction.getArgValue method. Right now there is no way of passing array values from javascript to this service. For instance:

serviceQueryObj = {
groupIds: "11052,11523",
ages: "15,20,30"
/* whatever array values */
};

Since this is the object that serves the request with the service parameter values and it's a javascript map, we cannot put more than one value with the same key in the request. The following example wouldn't work:

serviceQueryObj = {
groupId: 11052,
groupId, 11523,
age: 15,
age: 20,
age: 30
};

If we use ParamUtil.getLongValues(request, "groupId"), we would only get:

groupId - 11523

This happens because using maps we can only pass one value per key, so there's no way of taking advantage of the request.getParameterValues method which is used by each ParamUtil.get[Type]Values methods. Thus we need a way of passing array values from javascript to the server.