Establish Reference/Pointers to a $settings.switch object

[tgauchat (ActionTiles.com co-founder Terry @ActionTiles; GitHub: @cosmicpuppy)]

Here is one relevant Topic about how runIn() data parameters are serialized to JSON…

runIn - JSON vs map

If you run this piece of code in a SmartApp: def installed() { def evt = [name:"lock", data:[usedCode:null, type:"keypad"], value:"locked"] someFunc(evt) // This runs fine runIn(10, someFunc, [data: evt]) // This will lead to an exception } def someFunc(evt) { def data = evt.data if ((data?.usedCode != null) && (data?.usedCode >= 0)) { return true } else { return false } } it throws an exception when the someFunc is called from runIn with the parameters error groovy.lang.GroovyRuntimeException: Cannot compare org.codehaus.groovy.grails.web.json.JSONObject$Null with value ‘null’ and java.lang.Integer with value ‘0’ According to the docs runIn is supposed to pass a map but apparently it’s converting the map to a JSON object which is having trouble with the null o…

If I conclude correctly, you simply can’t successfully pass real “objects” to runIn(); so, dereferencing the JSON data to the settings.* object has been mentioned as a solution in a few similar Topics.