getOrCreateEntityState: Gets a state

In mcneilco/racas: R Package for ACAS

Gets a state

Description

Gets a state by stateKind if it exists, or creates a new one if not

Usage

getOrCreateEntityState(entity, entityKind, stateType, stateKind, recordedBy,
  lsTransaction,
  lsServerURL = racas::applicationSettings$client.service.persistence.fullpath)

Arguments

entity	an entity object, such as an experiment or analysis group
entityKind	the kind of entity, such as "experiment" or "analysisgroup", see acasEntityHierarchy
stateType	lsType of the state
stateKind	lsKind of the state
recordedBy	the current username
lsTransaction	the id of the transaction
lsServerURL	the url for the roo server

Details

This will fail if the entity has more than one non-ignored state of entered stateKind, as it would be unclear which to update.

mcneilco/racas documentation built on April 19, 2024, 1:12 p.m.