Question

If the value in my control only have one value the following code will return a String, if there are more than one value the code will return a java.util.Vector.

getComponent(“mycontrol”).getValue();

I want this code to return a vector even if there is only one value.

I have seen several code snippets that converts my string to an Array, but I want to get back a vector.

Answer 1

There is no way to force a singular value to be returned as a java.util.vector (or Array for that matter). The only way would be to test to see if it is a vector, then build a vector if not. You could place it into a function and wrap the call into that… for example (this is untested code so you’ll need to verify syntax, etc):

asVector(getComponent("mycontrol").getValue());

function asVector(obj) {
  if (obj.constructor === java.util.Vector) {
    return obj;
  } else {
    var x:java.util.Vector = new java.util.Vector();
    x.add(obj);
    return x;
  }
}