UNION_OF_ANY

Description

UNION_OF_ANY is the flexible counterpart of UNION.

It creates a combined set of all the lists you provide. Duplicates in the new list will be removed.

If a value or list is not available:

• UNION_OF_ANY simply ignores it and combines what is available.

• UNION, before returning a result, will ask users to go back and provide the missing list.

Examples

p is Person
UNION_OF_ANY(
    p.countries_lived_in, 
    p.countries_banned_from
)

A person in a case has lived in Germany, Switzerland, and Singapore. Being a fine, law abiding citizen, the person has not been banned from any countries.

The above expression will result in the list

[de, ch, sg]

Because UNION_OF_ANY is used, the request for ‘countries banned from’ is ignored, because there are none for this person.

Would you have used UNION instead, the system would have alerted you to provide one or more countries the person is banned from before giving you the combined list.