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ScottB3ScottB3 

Trouble returning a Map from the lightning component controller to helper.js

I have a component that is calling a controller method which then returns a Map of object Ids and the object name back to the component.

The Map is successfully created in the controller as I can see the values in the debug logs.
However, when I call response.getReturnValue(), it just says that the value is [object Object] and I can't do anything with it.  I see no values, the response.getReturnValue().length is 0.

If I return a string instead of a map, it works as would be expected.

Component
<aura:component implements="flexipage:availableForAllPageTypes,force:hasRecordId" 
                access="global" 
                controller="WFS_ObjectsIFollowController"
                >
    
    <aura:attribute name="recordId" type="String" />
    <aura:attribute name="targetFields" type="Object"/>
    <aura:attribute name="recordError" type="String"/>
    <aura:attribute name="followedObjectsCount" type="Integer" default="0"/>
    <aura:attribute name="parentObjects" type="Map"/>    
    
    <force:recordData aura:id="recordLoader"
                      recordId="{!v.recordId}" 
                      layoutType="FULL"
                      targetFields="{!v.targetFields}"
                      targetError="{!v.recordError}"
                      recordUpdated="{!c.recordUpdated}"
                      fields="Id"                  
                      mode="VIEW"/>   
    
    <article class="slds-card ">
            
            <div class="slds-card__body slds-card__body_inner">

                <aura:if isTrue="true">
                    <div class="slds-region_narrow">
                        Size = {! v.followedObjectsCount }
                </aura:if>
            </div>
        </div>
    </article>
</aura:component>

Controller
({
    recordUpdated : function(component, event, helper) {
        var changeType = event.getParams().changeType;
        
        if (changeType === "ERROR") { /* handle error; do this first! */ console.log("Error: ");}
    	else if (changeType === "LOADED") { /* handle record load */ 
            console.log("*** In the controller");
            helper.getData(component, event, changeType)
    	}
    	else if (changeType === "REMOVED") { /* handle record removal */ console.log("Removed: ");}
    	else if (changeType === "CHANGED") { /* handle record change */ 
            helper.getData(component, event, changeType)
        }

	}
})

Helper
({
    getData : function(component, event, cType) {
        
        console.log("In the WFS_Objects_I_FollowHelper.js function");
        
        var action = component.get('c.getObjectsIFollow');
        
        action.setCallback(this, function(response) {
            var state = response.getState();
            if(state === "SUCCESS"){
                alert(response.getReturnValue());
                component.set('v.parentObjects', response.getReturnValue());
                component.set('v.followedObjectsCount', response.getReturnValue().length);
                console.log("Objects Returned: " + response.getReturnValue().length);
            }else {
                console.log("RESPONSE FAILURE");
            }
        });
        $A.enqueueAction(action);        
    }
})
Apex Controller
public class WFS_ObjectsIFollowController {
    @AuraEnabled
    public static Map<String, String> getObjectsIFollow(){
	
        List<Case> followedCases;
        
        Map<String, String> parentObjects = new Map<String, String>();
        String userId = UserInfo.getUserId();
        String soql = 'SELECT Id, Subject FROM Case WHERE Id IN (SELECT ParentId FROM EntitySubscription WHERE SubscriberId = :userId)';
        followedCases = Database.query( soql );
                
        for ( Case parent : followedCases ){
            String parentId = parent.Id;
            String caseSubject = parent.Subject;
            parentObjects.put(parentId, caseSubject);
            System.debug('*** OBJECTS I FOLLOW - ' + parentId + ' - ' + caseSubject);
        }
        System.debug('Parent Objects --- ' + parentObjects);
        //THIS LINE PRINTS WITH THE CORRECT INFO

        return parentObjects;
    }
}


 
Naveen KNNaveen KN
Hi Scott,

alert(response.getReturnValue()); this gives [object object] irrespective of the length. I see no issues with the code above. Can you add debugger  and debug the js file. 

Add debugger; above this line alert(response.getReturnValue()); and see if you can see the map records in the browser. Open the browser developer console before reproducing. 

Naveen

 
ScottB3ScottB3
I put the debugger statement in, but don’t see any of the values being returned.
ScottB3ScottB3
I tried using JSON.stringify(response.getReturnValue()) and I do see that I am getting the values returned.

What I now cannot seem to figure out is how to get the size of that map as is attempted in lines 13, 14 
I also do not seem to have any value when I assign it to the aura:attribute on line 12.