Item2360: the TOM syntax for getting a field of a particular topic has some inconsistency?

I'm unsure if this is intentional

the Fn_IF.pm unit test contains

    push(
        @tests,
        {
            test   => "'$this->{test_web}.$topicName'/info.version = '1.1'",
            expect => "1"
        }
    );
    push(
        @tests,
        {
            test   => "'$this->{test_web}.$topicName'/info.rev = '1'",
            expect => "1"
        }
    );

whereas the docco in system.QuerySearch says

X/Y

accesses Y from the topic specified by the value of X. X must evaluate to a topic name

parent.name/(form.name='ExampleForm') will evaluate to true if (1) the topic has a parent, (2) the parent topic has the main form type ExampleForm.

the difference being that the unit test is testing / and the docco says \

if the syntax can be Web.Topic\fieldintopic and Web.Topic/fieldintopic then we should say so in the docco

-- SvenDowideit - 15 Nov 2009

Am I just blind? I can't see \ used anywhere in the docco?

-- CrawfordCurrie - 15 Nov 2009

me neither, I wonder what i was looking at

-- SvenDowideit - 18 Nov 2009