Method Description

Member.constructor()

Create a new JavaScript Member object.

Syntax

Interest = Member.constructor(initData)

Parameters

The 'Member.constructor' method takes 1 parameter:

Results

The 'Member.constructor' method returns Interest:

Remarks

This is the JavaScript constructor for the 'Member' class. The constructor takes a single optional parameter - initData. If this parameter is absent the constructor creates an empty Member. If initData is present then the following steps are taken:

1. The uName and ID property of initData are checked - if either are present the code attempts to load the corresponding Member from the persistent store.
2. initData is then searched for properties with names corresponding to Member properties. Those that are found are copied to the initialised Member object - overlaying those values over the top of any values currently stored in the object.

The second part of this initialisation takes place whether or not any values were recovered from the persistent membership store!

This method is invoked indirectly through a statement such as:

var aMember = new Member(initData);

The new member is not added to the persisitent membership store - and no changes from the initialisation data are committed to the persistent data store until the 'save' method is invoked on the member object.

Example

// Create a new member using the values stored
// provided by the user completing a form.
var formData = rb.page.formdata();

var aMember = new Member(formData);

// So far all we've done is create a JavaScript object. Need
// to store this permanently.
aMember.create();