Google Apps Script: pass return value from one function to another

Question

I have two scripts:

Script A: Takes raw data from an input sheet and outputs formatted data (stored in var resultRows to the output sheet.

Script B: Stores resultRows to a MySQL database.

Here's how I would like the process to work:

1. User runs script A, verifies that the information is correct.
2. If the information is correct, user runs Script B to store the data.

One way to do this would be to re-generate resultRows in Script B and then insert to DB, but I know I should be able to pass resultRows from Script A to Script B as an argument. Something like..

function scriptA() {
    //dosomestuff
    return resultRows;
}

function scriptB(data) {
    //insert data to db
}

scriptB(resultRows);

Script A is executed from the Google Spreadsheets menu (via the .addMenu method), but I don't know how to pass an argument to a function that's executed in this way (you can only pass a funciton name to .addMenu ) and I'm not sure the resultRows variable would be available to the function in any case.

Maybe running the function from a UI element makes more sense? Any ideas? Thanks!

Answer 1

Maybe try using the cache service?

I was able to pass a value from one function to another by pushing the value to a key via the cache service and recall it in the other function. Am not sure how long cache service can store it.