How to test if a custom account field is empty?
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Hi!
I've addes some new fields to my account entity, and now I'm trying to access them in my plug-in, but it seems that empty fields cause my code to throw a weird exception: "The given key was not in the dictionary." First I thought it couldn't find the field due to case sensitivity, but that should have been handled in my code and I should have seen my own error message, but I did not... Then I tried encasing the reading of that field in a try\catch and specifically catch any exceptions to confirm to myself that it really was the reading of the property that caused the exception, but again I got the same error... Here is my code:
Code Snippet//Validate Entity (Returns blank string if successfull)
private string ValidateEntity(DynamicEntity entity)
{
try
{
// Debug
#if(DEBUG)
this.WriteDebugLine("TradingCRMService.Plugin.ValidateEntity() started...");
#endif// Verify that the entity represents an account.
if (entity.Name != EntityName.account.ToString())
{
throw new Exception("The plug-in was invoked for an entity that is not supported! Supported entity is Account. Action attempted on an entity of type " + entity.Name);
}// Verify that the entity has a Sync property
if (entity.Properties["new_sync"] == null)
{
throw new Exception("The plug-in was invoked for an entity that does not have a Sync property.");
}// Get the value of the Sync property
CrmBoolean SyncValue = (CrmBoolean)entity.Properties["new_sync"];// Debug
#if(DEBUG)
this.WriteDebugLine("Sync = " + SyncValue.Value.ToString());
#endif// Verify that the entity has an Account Name property
if (entity.Properties["name"] == null)
{
throw new Exception("The plug-in was invoked for an entity that does not have an Account Name property.");
}// Get the value of the Account Name property
string AccountName = entity.Properties["name"].ToString();// Debug
#if(DEBUG)
this.WriteDebugLine("Account Name = " + AccountName);
#endif// Verify that the entity has a Klientnr property
if (entity.Properties["new_klientnr"] == null)
{
throw new Exception("The plug-in was invoked for an entity that does not have a Klientnr property.");
}// Get the value of the Klientnr property
string KlientNr = entity.Properties["new_klientnr"].ToString();
// Debug
#if(DEBUG)
this.WriteDebugLine("Klientnr = " + KlientNr);
#endif// Verify that the entity has a Kunde property
if (entity.Properties["new_Kunde"] == null)
{
throw new Exception("The plug-in was invoked for an entity that does not have a Kunde property.");
}// Get the value of the Kunde property
CrmBoolean Kunde = (CrmBoolean)entity.Properties["new_Kunde"];// Debug
#if(DEBUG)
this.WriteDebugLine("Kunde = " + Kunde.Value.ToString());
#endif// Verify that the entity has a Leverandør property
if (entity.Properties["new_Leverandor"] == null)
{
throw new Exception("The plug-in was invoked for an entity that does not have a Leverandør property.");
}// Get the value of the Leverandør property
CrmBoolean Leverandør = (CrmBoolean)entity.Properties["new_Leverandor"];// Debug
#if(DEBUG)
this.WriteDebugLine("Leverandør = " + Leverandør.Value.ToString());
#endif// Verify that the entity has a Transportør property
if (entity.Properties["new_Transportor"] == null)
{
throw new Exception("The plug-in was invoked for an entity that does not have a Transportør property.");
}// Get the value of the Transportør property
CrmBoolean Transportør = (CrmBoolean)entity.Properties["new_Transportor"];// Debug
#if(DEBUG)
this.WriteDebugLine("Transportør = " + Transportør.Value.ToString());
#endif// Verify that the entity has a Valutakode property
if (entity.Properties["new_Valutakode"] == null)
{
throw new Exception("The plug-in was invoked for an entity that does not have a Valutakode property.");
}// Get the value of the Valutakode property
string Valutakode = entity.Properties["new_Valutakode"].ToString();// Debug
#if(DEBUG)
this.WriteDebugLine("Valutakode = " + Valutakode);
#endif// Validation was successfull, return an empty string
return string.Empty;
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
string debugTekst = "TradingCRMService.Plugin.ValidateEntity() threw an exception: " + ex.Message + " StackTrace: " + ex.StackTrace;
string strTekst = "TradingCRMService.Plugin.ValidateEntity() threw an exception: " + ex.Message;
this.WriteDebugLine(debugTekst);
return strTekst;
}
finally
{
// Debug
#if(DEBUG)
this.WriteDebugLine("TradingCRMService.Plugin.ValidateEntity() completed...");
#endif
}}
My log shows this:
[05:25:06 - 4644] TradingCRMService.Plugin.Execute() started...
[05:25:06 - 4744] Plug-in context: Create
[05:25:06 - 4744] TradingCRMService.Plugin.ValidateEntity() started...
[05:25:06 - 4744] Sync = True
[05:25:06 - 4744] Account Name = Dummy Trading Customer
[05:25:06 - 4744] TradingCRMService.Plugin.ValidateEntity() threw an exception: The given key was not present in the dictionary. StackTrace: at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowKeyNotFoundException()
at System.Collections.Generic.Dictionary`2.get_Item(TKey key)
at Microsoft.Crm.Sdk.PropertyCollection.get_Item(String propertyName)
at TradingCRMService.Plugin.ValidateEntity(DynamicEntity entity)
[05:25:06 - 4744] TradingCRMService.Plugin.ValidateEntity() completed...
[05:25:06 - 4744] En uventet feil oppstod under kjøring av CRM 4.0 Maritech Trading Plug-in! Melding: The target entity did not pass validation. TradingCRMService.Plugin.ValidateEntity() threw an exception: The given key was not present in the dictionary.
[05:25:06 - 4744] TradingCRMService.Plugin.Execute() completed...So clearly it fails after reading Account Name. Ie. it fails when trying to read new_klientnr. The error goes away if I put some text in the new_klientnr field, but I want to be able to detect if this field is empty so I can tell the user WHY this operation failed (because of an empty field, not because a "given key was not in the dictionary". WTF is the word dictionary doing there in the first place?
) Is there a way of checking if a field is empty?
