com.sapportals.connector.metadata.primitives
Interface IPrimitive

All Known Subinterfaces:

IBigDecimal, IBoolean, IByte, IChar, IDate, IDouble, IEnumeration, IFloat, IInt, ILong, INumber, IShort, IString, ITime, IUnknown

public interface IPrimitive

This base interface exposes metadata for data primitives

Version:

1.0

Field Summary

static int	PRIMITIVE_TYPE_BIGDECIMAL Constant indicating the primitive is of type big decimal
static int	PRIMITIVE_TYPE_BOOLEAN Constant indicating the primitive is of type boolean
static int	PRIMITIVE_TYPE_BYTE Constant indicating the primitive is of type byte
static int	PRIMITIVE_TYPE_CHAR Constant indicating the primitive is of type char
static int	PRIMITIVE_TYPE_DATE Constant indicating the primitive is of type date
static int	PRIMITIVE_TYPE_DOUBLE Constant indicating the primitive is of type double
static int	PRIMITIVE_TYPE_ENUMERATION Constant indicating the primitive is of type enumeration
static int	PRIMITIVE_TYPE_FLOAT Constant indicating the primitive is of type float
static int	PRIMITIVE_TYPE_INT Constant indicating the primitive is of type int
static int	PRIMITIVE_TYPE_LONG Constant indicating the primitive is of type long
static int	PRIMITIVE_TYPE_NUMBER Constant indicating the primitive is of type number
static int	PRIMITIVE_TYPE_SHORT Constant indicating the primitive is of type short
static int	PRIMITIVE_TYPE_STRING Constant indicating the primitive is of type string
static int	PRIMITIVE_TYPE_TIME Constant indicating the primitive is of type time
static int	PRIMITIVE_TYPE_UNKNOWN Constant indicating the type of the primitive is unknown

Method Summary

java.util.Set	retrieveOperators() Return all the operators supported by this primitive
java.lang.String	retrievePrimitiveDescription() Return a short description of this data type.
int	retrievePrimitiveTypeCode() Returns the type code of the primitive,

Field Detail

PRIMITIVE_TYPE_UNKNOWN

public static final int PRIMITIVE_TYPE_UNKNOWN

Constant indicating the type of the primitive is unknown

PRIMITIVE_TYPE_BOOLEAN

public static final int PRIMITIVE_TYPE_BOOLEAN

Constant indicating the primitive is of type boolean

PRIMITIVE_TYPE_BYTE

public static final int PRIMITIVE_TYPE_BYTE

Constant indicating the primitive is of type byte

PRIMITIVE_TYPE_CHAR

public static final int PRIMITIVE_TYPE_CHAR

Constant indicating the primitive is of type char

PRIMITIVE_TYPE_SHORT

public static final int PRIMITIVE_TYPE_SHORT

Constant indicating the primitive is of type short

PRIMITIVE_TYPE_INT

public static final int PRIMITIVE_TYPE_INT

Constant indicating the primitive is of type int

PRIMITIVE_TYPE_LONG

public static final int PRIMITIVE_TYPE_LONG

Constant indicating the primitive is of type long

PRIMITIVE_TYPE_FLOAT

public static final int PRIMITIVE_TYPE_FLOAT

Constant indicating the primitive is of type float

PRIMITIVE_TYPE_DOUBLE

public static final int PRIMITIVE_TYPE_DOUBLE

Constant indicating the primitive is of type double

PRIMITIVE_TYPE_NUMBER

public static final int PRIMITIVE_TYPE_NUMBER

Constant indicating the primitive is of type number

PRIMITIVE_TYPE_STRING

public static final int PRIMITIVE_TYPE_STRING

Constant indicating the primitive is of type string

PRIMITIVE_TYPE_DATE

public static final int PRIMITIVE_TYPE_DATE

Constant indicating the primitive is of type date

PRIMITIVE_TYPE_BIGDECIMAL

public static final int PRIMITIVE_TYPE_BIGDECIMAL

Constant indicating the primitive is of type big decimal

PRIMITIVE_TYPE_ENUMERATION

public static final int PRIMITIVE_TYPE_ENUMERATION

Constant indicating the primitive is of type enumeration

PRIMITIVE_TYPE_TIME

public static final int PRIMITIVE_TYPE_TIME

Constant indicating the primitive is of type time

Method Detail

retrievePrimitiveTypeCode

public int retrievePrimitiveTypeCode()

Returns the type code of the primitive,

Returns:

PRIMITIVE_TYPE_STRING, PRIMITIVE_TYPE_INTEGER, PRIMITIVE_TYPE_DOUBLE, PRIMITIVE_TYPE_DATE, PRIMITIVE_TYPE_BOOLEAN, PRIMITIVE_TYPE_BYTEARRAY, PRIMITIVE_TYPE_OBJECT, PRIMITIVE_TYPE_UNKNOWN

retrievePrimitiveDescription

public java.lang.String retrievePrimitiveDescription()

Return a short description of this data type.

Returns:

String A short description of the data type.

retrieveOperators

public java.util.Set retrieveOperators()

Return all the operators supported by this primitive

Returns:

Set a set of all IOperator supported by the primitive