Building up a scripted REST api list of catalog tasks plus their variables

called via scripted rest endpoint

script include logic:
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getOpenRequests: function() {

        //--Courtesy of https://snprotips.com/blog/2016/7/15/scripted-rest-apis-in-servicenow-how-to-retrieve-catalog-item-variables

        //--done this way due to issues with gliderecord/memory leakage!!

        var responseObj = {};

       

        try {

            //gs.log('1:' + this.LINUX_SERVER_REQ);

            /*test it this way:

               var si= new _ansible_servicerequest();

               var sRes= si.getOpenRequests()

               gs.print('result:\n ' +JSON.stringify(sRes));

            */

            var itemSYSID = this.LINUX_SERVER_REQ;

            var grTasks = new GlideRecord('sc_task');

            grTasks.addActiveQuery();

            grTasks.addQuery('request_item.cat_item=' + itemSYSID);

                                                grTasks.orderBy('number');

            grTasks.query();

            responseObj.numberOfAnsibleTasks = grTasks.getRowCount();

            if (grTasks.getRowCount() > 0) {

                                                               

                while (grTasks.next()) {

var sNum = grTasks.number;

                    //return snNumberList;

                                                                                var taskObj, ritmVariables, variableName;

                    ritmVariables = grTasks.request_item.variables;

                                                                                               

                    taskObj = {};

                    taskObj['field:number'] = this.u_getTaskField(grTasks,'number') ;//--use this method to avoid a weird memory leakage on the GlideRecord which I couldnt quite get to the bottom of...

                                                                                taskObj['field:short_description'] = this.u_getTaskField(grTasks,'short_description') ;//--use this

                                                                               

                                                                                taskObj['field:requestor'] = this.u_getRequestValue_ReqFor(grTasks.request) ;//--use this

                    for (variableName in ritmVariables) {

                        if (ritmVariables.hasOwnProperty(variableName) && ritmVariables[variableName]) { //Make sure the property exists and isn't null or unknown.

                            variableName = variableName.toString(); //Make sure we're all proper strings here.

                            taskObj['variable:' +variableName] = ritmVariables[variableName].getDisplayValue().toString();

                        }

                    }

                    responseObj = this.u_addObjToObj(responseObj, taskObj, 'ansibleTask:' + grTasks. number); 

                }

            }

         

        } catch (ex) {

            gs.logError('ISSUE:' + ex.toString());

        }

        return responseObj;

    },

u_addObjToObj: function(parent, child, name) {

        parent[name] = child;

        return parent; //Note: Does not break pass-by-reference, because we're declaring a new object on each loop on line 39 above.

    },

u_getTaskField: function (grTask, fieldName){

return (grTask.getValue(fieldName));

},

u_getRequestValue_ReqFor: function(sysid){

//--insert code to retrieve the requested for from REQ record, pass in task.request as param

}