Replace/copy query object

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I want to copy a query object without overwriting the reference. Is there a way to achive this?

There is a method which has a query as parameter. In the method I got a second query. Now I want to overwrite the passed query with the second query so it also changes in the caller method.

query q;

void test(Query _query)

{

Query q2 = new Query();

q2.addDataSource(tableNum(SalesTable));

// ??? here should be the logic that copies the query from q2 to _query

}

q = new Query();

q.addDataSource(tableNum(InventTable));

test(q);

// I want to have q2 available here in object q

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Sohaib Cheema 49,668 Super User 2026 Season 2 on at

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q3 = new Query(q2);

// here is short demo job

static void testQueryCopy(Args _args)

{

Query q3 ;

Query q2 = new Query();

QueryRun qr;

SalesTable lclSalesTable;

q2.addDataSource(tableNum(SalesTable));

q3 = new Query(q2);

q3.dataSourceTable(tableNum(SalesTable)).addRange(fieldNum(SalesTable,SalesId)).value(queryValue("000751"));

qr = new QueryRun(q3);

while(qr.next())

{

lclSalesTable = qr.get(tableNum(SalesTable));

info(lclSalesTable.SalesId);

}

}

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This wont work because you overwrite the reference. The essential thing is to have the replaced query available outside in the calling method. If you locally overwrite the reference passed as parameter, you wont change the query object in the caller method.

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Martin Dráb 240,288 Most Valuable Professional on at

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Why don't you simply let test() return the reference and assign it to q?

q = test();

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I'm trying to overwrite the list page query in the listpage interaction class. The query is passed in the super class which I can't modify

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Well, then be careful to keep in place all data sources that the list page expects. Therefore I wouldn't try to remove the original query, I would merely modify it. You can add data sources (addDataSource()), merge ranges (SysQuery::mergeRanges()) or anything you like.

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