Min Attribute Value

Retrieves the minimum value for the specified attribute among all the elements in the business object array.

Inputs

Business object array
The business object array (specified as a BusObjArray object).

Attribute
A String that specifies the attribute name.

Output

Returns a String that contains the maximum value for the specified attribute.

Exceptions

The Min Attribute Value function block can throw the following exceptions, both of which are subclassed from CollaborationException :

For each of these exceptions, the Min Attribute Value function block can set the AttributeException exception type.

Notes

The Min Attribute Value function block looks for the minimum value for the specified attribute among the business objects in this business object array.

For example, suppose that this is a business object array containing Employee business objects and that the input argument is the attribute Salary, a Float. The function block determines the smallest value for Salary in all the Employee business objects and returns the business object that contains that value. If multiple business objects have that lowest Salary value, the function block returns all of those business objects.

A business object is ignored if the specified attribute contains null. If the value is null in all business objects in the array, null is returned.

When the attribute is of type String, the function block returns the shortest string lexically.

Related information

This function block is based on the BusObjArray.min() method. For more information, see min().

Copyright IBM Corp. 2004