Description Will Smythe 2011-12-20 09:54:09 EST

Created attachment 208619 [details]
Sample project (created in EWDT 0.7)

See the attached project. It contains a simple service and RUI handler. The service has 2 functions (getCustomer and getCustomers) that returns a Results record (Results contains some status fields - like 'succeeded' - and also a 'data' field which is of type 'any?'). I am able to construct a Results record, return it from my service functions, and the data (when viewed in the debugger) is getting passed, but I am not able to 'cast' it into a concrete type (in my example: Customer).

Regardless of the complexities, I believe a developer - who is building an end-to-end app - with EGL, should be able to set and return an 'any' variable (either as the return type of a service function or as a field in a record) and be able to cast it into its original type on the client. If the developer attempts to cast the Any into a type that cannot be cast into, it should fail (just like any bad cast).