DbServer.FieldInfo Method (Typed) |  |
Return and optionally change information about a field.
Namespace: XSharp.VO.SDK
Assembly: XSharp.VORDDClasses (in XSharp.VORDDClasses.dll) Version: 2.21
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If uNewSetting is not specified, DBServer:FieldInfo() returns the current setting. If uNewSetting is specified, the previous setting is returned.
Parameters
- kFieldInfoType (Optional)
- Type: Usual
Specifies the type of information. The constants are described in the Remarks section below. Note, however, that not all constants are supported for all RDDs. - uField (Optional)
- Type: Usual
The name, number, or symbol representing the position of the field in the database file structure or a numeric pointer to a BLOB. Only certain kFieldInfoType constants designed to work with BLOB fields—all noted in the Constants section below—allow specifying the field using a pointer; all others require specifying the field by its position. - uFieldVal (Optional)
- Type: Usual
If specified, this parameter is used to change the value of a setting. The data type (and whether uNewSetting can be specified), depends on the kInfoType constant and is documented in the Constants section below.
Return Value
Type: UsualIf uNewSetting is not specified, DBServer:FieldInfo() returns the current setting. If uNewSetting is specified, the previous setting is returned.
Remarks| Constants | Description | ||||||||||||||||||
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| DBS_ALIAS | Returns and optionally changes an alternate name (or alias) by which a field can be referenced (by default, same as DBS_NAME). Using the uNewSetting argument, you can specify a string that you can subsequently use to access the indicated field. | ||||||||||||||||||
| DBS_BLOB_DIRECT_LEN | Returns the length of data in a BLOB as an unsigned long integer, without referencing a particular memo field. For strings, the return value is the length of the string in bytes; for arrays, it is the number of elements in the first dimension; for all other data types, it returns -1. With this constant, you must specify the BLOB using a numeric pointer obtained from BLOBDirectPut(), BLOBDirectImport(), or FieldInfo(DBS_BLOB_POINTER, .../>). | ||||||||||||||||||
| DBS_BLOB_DIRECT_TYPE | To determine the data type of BLOB data, without reference to a particular memo field, use DBS_BLOB_DIRECT_TYPE. With this constant, you must specify the BLOB using a numeric pointer obtained from BLOBDirectPut(), BLOBDirectImport(), or FieldInfo(DBS_BLOB_POINTER, ...). | ||||||||||||||||||
| See DBS_BLOB_TYPE for a table of possible return values. | |||||||||||||||||||
| DBS_BLOB_LEN |
Returns the length of the BLOB data in a memo field as an unsigned long integer. For strings, the return value is the length of the string in bytes; for arrays, it is the number of elements in the first dimension; for all other data types, it returns -1.
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| DBS_BLOB_POINTER | Returns a numeric pointer to the BLOB data associated with a memo field. | ||||||||||||||||||
| DBS_BLOB_TYPE |
Unlike memo fields maintained in .DBT files, BLOB files allow you to store many different types of data in memo fields.
However, the standard functions for determining data types, such as ValType(), simply treat BLOB fields as regular memo
fields. To determine the actual type of BLOB data stored in a memo field, use DBS_BLOB_TYPE. The data type of the return value is string and can be interpreted using this table:
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| DBS_DEC | Returns the number of decimal places for the field. | ||||||||||||||||||
| DBS_LEN | Returns the length of the field. | ||||||||||||||||||
| DBS_NAME | Returns the name of the field. | ||||||||||||||||||
| DBS_PROPERTIES | Returns the number of properties defined for a field. | ||||||||||||||||||
| DBS_TYPE | Returns the data type of the field. | ||||||||||||||||||
| DBS_USER | Start of user defined values. |
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| DBS_USER is a constant that returns the minimum value that third-party RDD developers can use for customizations. Values less than DBS_USER are reserved for X# development. |
Examples
The following examples use DBServer:FieldInfo() to retrieve field information:
The next example illustrates using the third parameter to assign an alias to a field name:
X#
1METHOD DBOutStruct() CLASS Customer 2LOCAL aStruct AS ARRAY 3LOCAL wFcount AS DWORD 4LOCAL i AS DWORD 5aStruct := {} 6wFcount := FCount() 7FOR i := 1 UPTO wFcount 8AAdd(aStruct,; 9{SELF:FieldInfo(DBS_NAME, i),; 10SELF:FieldInfo(DBS_TYPE, i),; 11SELF:FieldInfo(DBS_LEN, i),; 12SELF:FieldInfo(DBS_DEC, i)}) 13NEXT 14RETURN aStruct
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1METHOD Start() CLASS App 2LOCAL oDBDate AS DBServer 3oDBDate := DateBook{} 4oDBDate:FieldInfo(DBS_ALIAS,; 5oDBDate:FieldPos("Name"),; 6"NewName") 7? Name // Displays name field 8? NewName // Also displays name field 9...
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