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MergeBranches

This is Filter Equivalent. This function may be present in generated code, but should not be used in hand-written code.

Header:	STD.h
Namespace:	fil

Chooses the first non-Nil object, or reports an error if there is no such object.

Syntax

void fil::MergeBranches
(
	const typename ftl::ToConditionalType<const Type&>::Type& inConditionalObject1,
	const typename ftl::ToConditionalType<const Type&>::Type& inConditionalObject2,
	const typename ftl::ToConditionalType<const Type&>::Type& inConditionalObject3,
	const typename ftl::ToConditionalType<const Type&>::Type& inConditionalObject4,
	const typename ftl::ToConditionalType<const Type&>::Type& inConditionalObject5,
	const typename ftl::ToConditionalType<const Type&>::Type& inConditionalObject6,
	const typename ftl::ToConditionalType<const Type&>::Type& inConditionalObject7,
	const typename ftl::ToConditionalType<const Type&>::Type& inConditionalObject8,
	Type& outObject
)

Parameters

Name	Type	Description
inConditionalObject1	const typename ToConditionalType<const Type&>::Type&	First conditional input object
inConditionalObject2	const typename ToConditionalType<const Type&>::Type&	Second conditional input object
inConditionalObject3	const typename ToConditionalType<const Type&>::Type&	Third conditional input object
inConditionalObject4	const typename ToConditionalType<const Type&>::Type&	Fourth conditional input object
inConditionalObject5	const typename ToConditionalType<const Type&>::Type&	Fifth conditional input object
inConditionalObject6	const typename ToConditionalType<const Type&>::Type&	Sixth conditional input object
inConditionalObject7	const typename ToConditionalType<const Type&>::Type&	Seventh conditional input object
inConditionalObject8	const typename ToConditionalType<const Type&>::Type&	Eighth conditional input object
outObject	Type&	First not-Nil input object

Description

The operation collects a number of conditional objects and passes the existing input values onto the outObject output. The filter assumes that at least one of the input values exists; otherwise an error with appropriate description occurs.

The operation is similar to the MergeConditionals filter, yet it computes the proper (non-conditional) object.

Examples


inConditionalObject1 = Nil inConditionalObject2 = Nil inConditionalObject3 = "Mike" inConditionalObject4 = "Alice" inConditionalObject5 = Nil inConditionalObject6 = "Joanne" inConditionalObject7 = Nil inConditionalObject8 = Nil	outObject = "Mike"


inConditionalObject1 = Nil inConditionalObject2 = Nil inConditionalObject3 = Nil inConditionalObject4 = Nil inConditionalObject5 = Nil inConditionalObject6 = Nil inConditionalObject7 = Nil inConditionalObject8 = Nil	Error occurs.

Errors

List of possible exceptions: