Wire debug value doesn't match node input value

[Ben Garcia]

When debugging, the wire value is True.

When running, the alert shows that the value being passed to it is false.

Has anyone experienced and what can I do to test or fix? Cache last run in Debug is disabled.

[Pat Stanford]

What is the setup on your Alert Dialog node?

[Ben Garcia]

It was:
 

@Marionette.NodeDefinition
class Params(metaclass = Marionette.OrderedClass):
	# APPEARANCE
	this = Marionette.Node('Alert Dialog')
	this.SetDescription('Displays an alert dialog to the user.')

	# Input Ports
	runFlag = Marionette.PortIn(False, 'boolean')
	runFlag.SetDescription("If False, the alert dialog will run")

# BEHAVIOR
	this.SetListAbsorb()

def RunNode(self):
	# inputs
	run_flag = self.Params.runFlag.value

	# script
	vs.AlrtDialog("Greater than value is "+ str(run_flag))

 

Edited April 16 by Ben Garcia

[Pat Stanford]

I have no idea. I just tested your node in a less complicated network and I get the same output between the debug and the node.

 

 

Try something like the above and see if you can get the failure.

 

One a separate note, you might want to rename the Node to something like Alert Dialog 2 since there is already a default Alert Dialog node that does something different.

 

 

[Marissa Farrell]

7 hours ago, Ben Garcia said:

It was:
 

@Marionette.NodeDefinition
class Params(metaclass = Marionette.OrderedClass):
	# APPEARANCE
	this = Marionette.Node('Alert Dialog')
	this.SetDescription('Displays an alert dialog to the user.')

	# Input Ports
	runFlag = Marionette.PortIn(False, 'boolean')
	runFlag.SetDescription("If False, the alert dialog will run")

# BEHAVIOR
	this.SetListAbsorb()

def RunNode(self):
	# inputs
	run_flag = self.Params.runFlag.value

	# script
	vs.AlrtDialog("Greater than value is "+ str(run_flag))

 

I think while trying to debug you got yourself all out of sorts here.

The issue, though, is the 

this.SetListAbsorb()

line. 
What this does is it takes everything that is wired into the port and takes it in as a list, so the boolean input you're receiving is actually

[True]

or 

[False]

Two ways to resolve this - 

1) take out the 

this.SetListAbsorb()

line. 

 

2) change

	# inputs
	run_flag = self.Params.runFlag.value

to 

	# inputs
	run_flag = self.Params.runFlag.value[0]

 

________
I imagine you want it to behave more like the following in the long run:
 

@Marionette.NodeDefinition
class Params(metaclass = Marionette.OrderedClass):
	# APPEARANCE
	this = Marionette.Node('Alert Dialog')
	this.SetDescription('Displays an alert dialog to the user.')

	runFlag = Marionette.PortIn(False, 'boolean')
	runFlag.SetDescription("If False, the alert dialog will run")

	# OIP Controls
	txt = Marionette.OIPControl('Text', Marionette.WidgetType.Text, '')
	txt.SetDescription('The alert message to be displayed')

# BEHAVIOR

def RunNode(self):
	# inputs
	text = self.Params.txt.value
	run_flag = self.Params.runFlag.value

	# script
	if not run_flag:
		vs.AlrtDialog(text)