Re: how to get the type of an attribute in code
Re: how to get the type of an attribute in code
- Subject: Re: how to get the type of an attribute in code
- From: Farrukh Ijaz <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 27 Oct 2010 18:39:22 +0300
Wow!!
This is called actual stuff! Superlative integration techniques. Good Luck!
Farrukh
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On 2010-10-27, at 5:50 PM, Simon <email@hidden> wrote:
> we're implementing the google wire protocol for google visualizations.
> we're using ERRest to get the data we want to visualise, and we're
> writing a custom errest writer to output the data in the format we
> need. part of the process is to produce a DataTable that a google
> library then converts to wire data. as part of that process we need to
> know what the value type of the attributes we're using.
>
> we're just looking at pascal's suggestion which looks pretty smack on
> for what we need.
>
> simon
>
>
>
> On 27 October 2010 14:55, David Avendasora <email@hidden> wrote:
>> Hi Simon,
>>
>> My question is why do you need it? If it's not for something UI-specific, then you may be doing something in a not-so-optimal way...
>>
>> I'm not saying you _are_ doing something wrong, just that any time I think of using instanceof or similar, I stop and review my design decisions to make sure I haven't gone wrong somewhere.
>>
>> Dave
>>
>> On Oct 27, 2010, at 9:44 AM, Simon wrote:
>>
>>> brilliant - thanks to all for the input !!
>>>
>>> Simon
>>>
>>> On 27 October 2010 14:08, Farrukh Ijaz
>>> <email@hidden> wrote:
>>>> Hi Simon,
>>>> Does this make sense to you?
>>>> EOModelGroup.defaultGroup().entityNamed("EntityName")._attributeForPath("attributeName").className()
>>>> Farrukh
>>>> On 2010-10-27, at 3:57 PM, Simon wrote:
>>>>
>>>> hi all - is there an easy / quick way to figure out the type of a
>>>> particular attribute in code ?
>>>>
>>>> e.g. i want to know what type (ie. Integer, BigDecimal, String) the
>>>> column X is of entity Y
>>>>
>>>> thanks, simon
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