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Hello everyone! Does anyone know how to `context.write()` in a MapReduce using 2.1 api?
Just returning an object with a key/value pair does not seem to be working. The reduce function doesn’t even start!
The object `mapContext` provided doesn’t have a `write` function…

it should be
```function map(context) {
  // Your code
  
  context.write({ key: "your key", value: "your value" })
}```

Yeah.. thats for 2.0..

In 2.1 we have
 `const map = (mapContext) =&gt; { ....`

I yoinked this example from a working 2.1 script

you dont have to use arrow functions in 2.1, you can still use the `function map(mapContext) {}`  syntax

you are officially doomed if your mapContext does not have a write function

that said, how are you determining that there is no write function

my guess is through JSON.stringify(), and then functions dont show

The entry points in 2.1 look more like:
```const getInputData = (inputContext) =&gt; {
const map = (mapContext) =&gt; {
const reduce = (reduceContext) =&gt; {
const summarize = (summaryContext) =&gt; {```
At least these were given by the IDE…
So you’re saying that i can just forget the arrow function and write like its 2.0?

Those entry points as given by your IDE should also work, so chances are the issues lies elsewhere. In your original message you used `write.context()` as example which will never work. Instead do `context.write()`  or `mapContext.write()`  depending on the parameter name

Yes I meant `context.write()`   :man-facepalming::skin-tone-5:  just wrote wrong here. The object `context` doesn’t exist using the arrow function since `mapContext` is given and for `mapContext` the function `write()`  doesn’t exist..
If I change the entry points declarations to functions instead arrows I expect to have a `context` object as usual.

I changed the entry point declarations and it worked.. Thank you <@U016TC4RJ3C>!

That is very weird, I'm suprised the context given is different between normal and arrow functions. But glad you got it working!

<@UDSE8DRB9> if you mean that it doesn't exist just because webstorm says so, then ignore that.
I have used webstorms sdf-templates successfully

Hi <@UP0GS40AF>, actually the error came from NetSuite when running..  Did you manage to make it work?

ok, I’ll go ahead with my current version and will try to refactor again after finished.

if it works for you, leave it be. I don't think it will matter.