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%Library.DataType

datatype class %Library.DataType

ODBC Type: VARCHAR

Cache datatype superclass.

Note that data types do not have to inherit from this class in order to be a data type but this is used by the Cache built in data types.

Method Inventory

Parameters

parameter INDEXNULLMARKER;
Override this parameter value to specify what value should be used as a null marker when a property of the type is used in a subscript of an index map. The default null marker used is -1E14, if none is specfied for the datatype. However %Library.PosixTime and %Library.BigInt datatypes could have values that collate before -1E14, and this means null values would not sort before all non-NULL values.

Methods

abstract classmethod IsValid(%val As %CacheString) as %Status
Return $$$OK if the value is valid for the datatype, or an error code otherwise.

Subclasses

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