Building Low-Code Applications with Mendix by Bryan Kenneweg Imran Kasam and Micah McMullen

Author:Bryan Kenneweg, Imran Kasam and Micah McMullen
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Packt Publishing Ltd.
Published: 2021-02-24T00:00:00+00:00

Figure 9.8 – Examples of urlEncode and urlDecode

It is used in a URL when consuming an API. It is particularly helpful when you are unsure of the value that will be used because, perhaps, it's from a user input screen.

parseInteger

This function will attempt to convert a given string to an integer.

Its possible use case could be when there is a string attribute in your database that actually contains an integer value. Perhaps this was something a user mistakenly entered or provided by an external resource. The string attribute may read as 100 but to the application, that's not a number. You cannot add other numbers to it, it's just a string that contains the characters 1, 0, and 0. So, to do anything "number-like" with that value, you first must convert it to an integer:

Important note

This function will attempt to convert the given string to an integer. However, if the string contains non-numeric characters, an error will result.

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