Simple utilities to help ease NetSuite SuiteScript development

suitescript_utilities.js

// Author <[email protected]>

function isUserInterfaceContext() {
  var context = nlapiGetContext();
  var executionContext = context.getExecutionContext();

  return executionContext == 'userinterface';
}

function startsWith(str, searchString) {
  return str.indexOf(searchString) === 0;
}

function isZero(obj) {
  return parseFloat(obj) == 0.0
}

function debugObject(obj) {
  for (var i in obj.getAllFields()) {
    nlapiLogExecution('DEBUG', i)
  }
}

// debugSearchResult(results)
function debugSearchResult(searchResults) {
  var searchColumns = searchResults[0].getAllColumns()
  var output = ""

  for (var i in searchColumns) {
    output += debugSearchColumn(searchColumns[i])
  }

  return output
}

// debugSearchColumn(results[0].getAllColumns()[1])
function debugSearchColumn(searchResultColumn) {
  var output = ""

  output += searchResultColumn.getLabel() + ", "
  output += searchResultColumn.getName() + ", "
  output += searchResultColumn.getSummary() + ", "
  output += searchResultColumn.getJoin() + ", "

  log(output)

  // return & log for easy debugging via the "Evaluate Expressions" panel
  return output
}

function log(msg) {
  nlapiLogExecution('DEBUG', msg);
}

function error(msg) {
  nlapiLogExecution('ERROR', msg);
}

function isEmpty(obj) {
  return obj === undefined || obj === null || obj === "";
}