Question

I apologize if this is a stupid/newb question, but when a Rally query result is returned with a _ref (using the Javascript SDK 1.32), is there a way to directly get the object associated with the _ref?

I see that I can use getRefFromTypeAndObjectId to get the type and the object ID, and then query on that type and object ID to get the object, however I wondered if there was something like getObjectFromRef or some other such way to more directly get back the object associated with the reference.

Answer 1

Excellent question. The getRallyObject method on RallyDataSource should do what you need.

var ref = '/defect/12345.js';
rallyDataSource.getRallyObject(ref, function(result) {
    //got it
    var name = result.Name;
}, function(response) {
    //oh noes... errors
    var errors = response.Errors;
});