Cast Object
Introduction
The Cast object activity is used after an object type decision to change the type of object from the generalized object type to the specialized object type of the path out of the object type decision.
For more information about specialization and generalization, see Entities.
Properties
An example of cast object properties is represented in the image below:
There are two sets of properties for this activity, those in the dialog box on the left, and those in the properties pane on the right.
The cast object properties pane consists of the following sections:
Action Section
The Action section of the properties pane shows the action associated with this activity.
You can open a dialog box to configure this action by clicking the ellipsis (…) next to the action.
You can also open the dialog box by double-clicking the activity, or right-clicking the activity and selecting Properties.
Object Name
This is the name for the result of the cast. It can be used by all activities that follow this activity.
Common Section
Example
For example, there are three specializations of the Question object. Only an object of the specialized type MultipleChoiceQuestion needs to have some special actions performed on it. These will be done in a sub-microflow which has the input type as MultipleChoiceQuestion. Since an object of the type Question cannot get passed to the sub-microflow, the object first needs to be cast to the object type MultipleChoiceQuestion.
