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Bud
Bud

Reputation: 781

NetSuite SuiteScript - Constants And Inclusion

I have a NetSuite SuiteScript file (2.0) in which I want to include a small library of utilities I've built. I can do that fine, and access the functions in the included library. But I can't access the constants I've defined in that library - I have to re-declare them in the main file.

Here's the main file:

define(['N/record', 'N/search', './utils.js'],
function (record, search, utils) {
    function pageInit(scriptContext) {
        isUserAdmin = isCurrentUserAdmin(contextRecord);
        
        if (isUserAdmin) {
            alert('Administrator Role ID is ' + ADMINISTRATOR_ROLE);
            // Do something for Admin users
        }
        return;
    }
    return {
        pageInit: pageInit
    };
});

You can see I include the file ./utils.js in it. Here's utils.js:

    const ADMINISTRATOR_ROLE = 11;   
    
    function isCurrentUserAdmin(currentRecord) {
        return ADMINISTRATOR_ROLE == nlapiGetRole();
    }

That's the entire file - nothing else.

In the main file, the call to the function isCurrentUserAdmin works fine. It correctly tells me whether the current user is an admin. Note that I don't have to preface the call to isCurrentUserAdmin with utils. (utils.isCurrentUserAdmin doesn't work - it gives me the error JS_EXCEPTION TypeError utils is undefined). But when the code gets to the line that uses ADMINSTRATOR_ROLE, I get the error JS_EXCEPTION ReferenceError ADMINISTRATOR_ROLE is not defined. BTW, if I put the constant definition of ADMINISTRATOR_ROLE in the main file instead of utils.js, I get the same error when utils.js tries to use it. The only way I can get it to work is if I have the line defining the constant in both files.

Why does the inclusion work for the function, but not the constant? Am I including the library wrongly? I thought I'd have to use it as utils.isCurrentUserAdmin rather than just isCurrentUserAdmin, but to my surprise that's not the case, as I say above.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 490

Answers (3)

Coldstar
Coldstar

Reputation: 1341

You need to make sure any member you need to access in another module needs to be exported in the source module using the return statement

Upvotes: 0

Jala
Jala

Reputation: 919

If you have utils.js like below, you can use utils.ADMINISTRATOR_ROLE and utils.isCurrentUserAdmin() in your main file.

/** 
 *@NApiVersion 2.0
 */
 
define ([],

function() {
    const ADMINISTRATOR_ROLE = 11;   
    
    function isCurrentUserAdmin() {
        // check here
    }
    
    return {
        ADMINISTRATOR_ROLE: ADMINISTRATOR_ROLE,
        isCurrentUserAdmin: isCurrentUserAdmin
    }; 
});

Upvotes: 3

Brian Duffy
Brian Duffy

Reputation: 162

Try

define(['N/record', 'N/search', 'SuiteScripts/utils']

Upvotes: 0

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