From 0186d11fe8bde00a621776e4011092339d6c042f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Maurizio Vitale <maurizio.vitale@alfresco.com>
Date: Wed, 13 May 2020 22:19:07 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Ability to evaluate an object as payload (#5697)

---
 .../src/lib/services/extension.service.ts          | 14 ++++++++++++--
 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/lib/extensions/src/lib/services/extension.service.ts b/lib/extensions/src/lib/services/extension.service.ts
index 38abe6108e..c097478366 100644
--- a/lib/extensions/src/lib/services/extension.service.ts
+++ b/lib/extensions/src/lib/services/extension.service.ts
@@ -198,7 +198,18 @@ export class ExtensionService {
      * @param context Parameter object for the expression with details of app state
      * @returns Result of evaluated expression, if found, or the literal value otherwise
      */
-    runExpression(value: string, context?: any) {
+    runExpression(value: string | {} , context?: any) {
+        if (typeof value === 'string' ) {
+            return this.evaluateExpression(value, context);
+        } else {
+            Object.keys(value).forEach( (key) => {
+                value[key] = this.evaluateExpression(value[key], context);
+            });
+            return value;
+        }
+    }
+
+    private evaluateExpression(value: string, context?: any): string {
         const pattern = new RegExp(/\$\((.*\)?)\)/g);
         const matches = pattern.exec(value);
 
@@ -209,7 +220,6 @@ export class ExtensionService {
 
             return result;
         }
-
         return value;
     }
 }