CreateString CreateArray CreateNumber

[forresto]

These components would be useful in the UI to have the correct IIP editor in the node inspector.

[djdeath]

What would be the input of these components? Strings?

If so, why not put that into noflo-strings, we already have ParseFloat/ParseInt/ParseJson there.

[forresto]

No, they would have the correct input widget, so the parsing would be done
by the UI.

[paulyoung]

I made a start (disclaimer, I'm new to FBP).

CreateArray seemed like it should work the same way as CreateObject so that's what I have so far.

I'd prefer to have tests for these but I'm not entirely sure what I need to cover. Maybe something like this?

test = require "noflo-test"

expected1 = []

test.component("objects/CreateArray").
  discuss("upon start").
    send.connect("start").
    send.data("start", null).
    send.disconnect("start").
  discuss("creates an empty array").
    receive.data("out", expected1).

export module

So, if CreateObject sends an empty object and CreateArray sends an empty array, what are we proposing that CreateString or CreateNumber send?