Convert Object or roArray to String

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1

Is there an automatic way to convert an object to a String?

2

Nevermind, in poking around the examples I found:

Function tostr(any)

Within generalUtils.brs

This seems to do what I want.

3

Check out librokudev: https://github.com/rokudev

rdSerialize will take most simple data structures (without built in components) and turn it into a string that you can eval to get the data structure back.
https://github.com/rokudev/librokudev/b … ialize.brs

rdJSON has both builder and parser functions to correctly turn (most?) JSON into a roku data structure or vice-versa.
https://github.com/rokudev/librokudev/b … rdJSON.brs

4

I came up with the following:

Function toStr(v As Dynamic, levels = 1 As Integer, debug = 5 As Integer) As String
    Log("toStr", 7, "vType:" + type(v) + " levels:" + Stri(levels), debug)
    out = ""
    if v = invalid return "invalid"
    if type(v)= "roString" return v
    if type(v) = "roFloat" OR type(v) = "Float" return Str(v)
    if type(v) = "roInt" OR type(v) = "Integer" return Stri(v)
    if type(v) = "roTimespan" return Stri(v.TotalMilliseconds()) + "ms"
    if type(v) = "roDateTime" return Stri(v.asSeconds())
    If type(v) = "roBoolean" Then
      if(v) Then return "True" Else return "False"
    End If
    If type(v) = "roArray" Then
      If levels > 0 Then
        i = 0
        out = chr(11) + "--- Start roArray ---" + chr(13) + chr(10)
        for each e in v
            out = out + chr(11) + "[" + Stri(i) + "]" + toStr(e, levels - 1) + chr(13) + chr(10)
            i = i + 1
        next
        out = out + chr(11) + "--- End roArray ---" + chr(13) + chr(10)
        return out
      Else
        return "{roArray}"
      EndIf
    End If
    If type(v) = "roAssociativeArray" Then
        out = chr(11) + "--- Start roAssociativeArray ---" + chr(13) + chr(10)
        for each e in v
            out = out + chr(11) + "[" + e + "]" + toStr(v[e], levels - 1) + chr(13) + chr(10)
        next
        out = out + chr(11) + "--- End roAssociativeArray ---" + chr(13) + chr(10)
        return out
    Else
        return "{roAssociativeArray}"
    End If
    return "{unknown}"
End Function
5

I found similar issue. Is there available any good solution. I checked my variable datatype using Type(Myval). It’s roArray and I’m trying to convert with string. I tried above solution add genaraliutilities and Add ToStr() in Code. and Before Adding Utilities Simply I write ToStr() But both way doesn’t work.

Is there any solution for this?