From d7471f3e66d7b785653f0075bf85a757c15ffa6c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: erickson <erickson@9efc2488-bf62-4759-914b-345cdb29e865>
Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2005 19:11:40 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] morphing into shape

git-svn-id: svn://svn.open-ils.org/OpenSRF/trunk@258 9efc2488-bf62-4759-914b-345cdb29e865
---
 src/extras/fieldmapper.pl | 29 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++---
 1 file changed, 26 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/src/extras/fieldmapper.pl b/src/extras/fieldmapper.pl
index bd90d0b..defcd73 100644
--- a/src/extras/fieldmapper.pl
+++ b/src/extras/fieldmapper.pl
@@ -10,8 +10,17 @@ print <<JS;
 
 //  ----------------------------------------------------------------
 // Autogenerated by fieldmapper.pl
+// Requires JSON.js
 //  ----------------------------------------------------------------
 
+function FieldmapperException(message) {
+	this.message = message;
+}
+FieldmapperException.toString = function() {
+	return "FieldmapperException: " + this.message + "\\n";
+}
+
+
 JS
 
 for my $object (keys %$map) {
@@ -27,12 +36,26 @@ print <<JS;
 JS
 
 print	<<JS;
+
 function $short_name(array) {
-	if(array) { this.array = array; } 
-	else { this.array = []; }
+
+	this.classname = "$short_name";
+	this._isfieldmapper = true;
+
+	if(array) { 
+		if( array.constructor == Array) 
+			this.array = array;  
+
+		else
+			throw new FieldmapperException(
+				"Attempt to build fieldmapper object with non-array");
+
+	} else { this.array = []; }
+
 }
 
-$short_name.classname = "$short_name";
+$short_name._isfieldmapper = true;
+
 
 JS
 
-- 
2.11.0