Zigbee Switch updateDataValue("onOff", "catchall")

Developer Programs Writing Edge Drivers
1

how this should be translated to Lua

2

For Groovy, it’s a different way of using the state variable (persistent storage), like this:

state.onOff = "catchall"

In Edge, persistent storage is done with device:set_field and device:get_field().
Eg.

device:set_field("onOff", "catchall")
3

as you can see there is no “get_field” in the code,
so I assume there is hidden magic behind that, will the magic work the same in Edge.

4

If you just want to make an Edge Driver for Zigbee Multi Switch, you don’t need this in the code.

5

it’s for multi-switch. and it looks like it set special flag inside the DTH.
just like

preferences:
  - preferenceId: tempOffset
    explicit: true
6

Ok, I double-checked with the engineering team and this used to be a workaround in the Legacy platform (Groovy) to define how the messages were sent.
In Edge drivers, you don’t need to apply this workaround, so you can omit this function.