Here is a method to transform the web variables obtained from a web form into a useful object. The method takes in a collection of web variable names and outputs an object that can be used to get the value of a particular variable. This method should be called after a POST action from a web form using 4DACTION.

// Method: WEB_VARIABLES_TO_OBJECT // Input: Collection of web variable names // Output: Object of web variable name & value pairs var $1 : Collection var $0 : Object var $vars : Collection var $varName : Text var $idx : Integer var $val : Text var $obj : Object ARRAY TEXT($arrNames; 0) ARRAY TEXT($arrVals; 0) $vars:=$1 $obj:=New object WEB GET VARIABLES($arrNames; $arrVals) For each ($varName; $vars)   $idx:=Find in array($arrNames; $varName)   $val:=$arrVals{$idx}   $obj[$varName]:=$val End for each $0:=$obj

For example, in a sign-up form, a user sends vUsername, vEmail, and vAddress values to 4D via a POST method with /4DACTION/myMethod. In myMethod, WEB_VARIABLES_TO_OBJECT can be used like this:

$varNames:=New collection(“vUsername”,”vEmail"; "vAddress”) $webVars:=WEB_VARIABLES_TO_OBJECT($varNames) // check if email already exists in database $entSel:=ds.Users.query("email = :1"; $webVars.vEmail)

The utility method is especially useful for systematically handling many web variables at once, so that a desired value can be easily retrieved by just calling the variable name as the property of the output object.