Text interpreted as Integer in GET

rocatis

I just found this out by chance, and I cannot decide whether it is clever or idiotic:

Int is a record of type Integer:

Int.GET('3') will actually get Int.Number = 3...

This is in NAV 2018. I have not investigated other versions, but I am pretty sure this has not always worked that way.

Wisa123

Hi,

Im tending towards idiotic.
I tried what you showed, it also works in 2013 - without any problems.

Then i got curious why and how it worked and looked into the c# resulting from the snippet.

int.GET('55')

maps to

@int.Target.ALGetSafe(DataError.ThrowError, 449479, ALCompiler.ToNavValue(@"55"));

while the normal int-based way results in

int.GET(12)

maps to

@int.Target.ALGetSafe(DataError.ThrowError, 449479, ALCompiler.ToNavValue(12));

So the ALCompiler actually does the cast to int for us internally.
Weird, but ok. Im still going for idiotic, dont use this in any way.