zmObject.srcObj gone?

[g23]

Ok, I thought I was going crazy but it turns out not :-).

I downloaded what I think is the latest version of the Desktop zimbra app from the zimbra site, and created a nice little dev environment on my linux desktop. I wrote cool little zimlet which worked great and used (from examples and what I have found around) zmObject.srcObj and all worked well.

Then when I uploaded my new zimlet to my production environment :
Release 5.0.13_GA_2791.UBUNTU8_64 UBUNTU8_64 NETWORK edition

It totally didn't work. After going through the debugger I realised that oddly enoug
zmObject.srcObj was undefined. So I went through the source code and in

Zimbra_all.js on my desktop environment, in fact the zmObject is assigning srcObj
but in the production environment, that line has been taken out.

So my question is, is this a bug in my version? or is this taken out on purpose as it seems srcObj has been taken out of all zmObject wrappers.


If it has been taken out, what would be the proper way to get the object we are looking for? Is there a generic getObject() call we can use with the object id which we do get in the zmObject class?


G23

[g23]

well, after snooping around more souce code I think I solved my issue by using
appCtxt.getById(zmObject.id); Though I have not tested it in production yet.

It is odd though that the desktop has a different code base than production, especially when
the zimlet wiki is stating that the desktop environment is a better way to develop.

Also, zmObject.srcObj is still on the wiki zimlet RSS feed example.


G23

[fcash]

See also this thread, in the zDesktop forum. Guess you beat me to posting about this.

[tdesorbaix]

it seems srcObj has been taken out

No! the srcObj is not implemented yet on the server version.
It will be integrated with the version 6.0.0 :
Bug 34467 – Pass original object as a part of translated object

[rrao]

Originally Posted by g23

Ok, I thought I was going crazy but it turns out not :-).

I downloaded what I think is the latest version of the Desktop zimbra app from the zimbra site, and created a nice little dev environment on my linux desktop. I wrote cool little zimlet which worked great and used (from examples and what I have found around) zmObject.srcObj and all worked well.

Then when I uploaded my new zimlet to my production environment :
Release 5.0.13_GA_2791.UBUNTU8_64 UBUNTU8_64 NETWORK edition

It totally didn't work. After going through the debugger I realised that oddly enoug
zmObject.srcObj was undefined. So I went through the source code and in

Zimbra_all.js on my desktop environment, in fact the zmObject is assigning srcObj
but in the production environment, that line has been taken out.

So my question is, is this a bug in my version? or is this taken out on purpose as it seems srcObj has been taken out of all zmObject wrappers.


If it has been taken out, what would be the proper way to get the object we are looking for? Is there a generic getObject() call we can use with the object id which we do get in the zmObject class?


G23

srcObj was introduced in 5.0.14 in ZCS. The Zimbra Desktop GA is based on 5.0.16. So, If you upgrade to 5.0.14 or newer version you should be ok.

PS:The wiki doc is currently work-in-progress and I will make sure to add this information.

[xrickung]

I was suffered by this problems for weeks as I followed this guide
Zimlet cookbook based on JavaScript API - Zimbra :: Wiki

and thought it was a problem with my code. Now it's fixed.


Thank you thank you thank you