DataType Methods

TIBCO Spotfire 6.0 API Reference

The DataType type exposes the following members.

Methods

	Name	Description
	CreateCultureSpecificFormatter	Creates a culture specific formatter for this data type. A formatter may configured by casting it to the corresponding formatter class. For numeric types (DataType.Integer, DataType.Long and DataType.Real) the formatter class is NumberFormatter. For date/time types (DataType.Date, DataType.Time and DataType.DateTime it is DateTimeFormatter. The formatter class for DataType.String is StringFormatter.
	CreateFormatter	Obsolete. Creates a user localized formatter for this data type. A formatter may configured by casting it to the corresponding formatter class. For numeric types (DataType.Integer, DataType.Long and DataType.Real) the formatter class is NumberFormatter. For date/time types (DataType.Date, DataType.Time and DataType.DateTime it is DateTimeFormatter. The formatter class for DataType.String is StringFormatter.
	CreateFormatter(CultureInfo)	Obsolete. Creates a culture specific formatter for this data type. A formatter may configured by casting it to the corresponding formatter class. For numeric types (DataType.Integer, DataType.Long and DataType.Real) the formatter class is NumberFormatter. For date/time types (DataType.Date, DataType.Time and DataType.DateTime it is DateTimeFormatter. The formatter class for DataType.String is StringFormatter.
	CreateList	Obsolete. Create an array of the representation type.
	CreateLocalizedFormatter	Creates a user localized formatter for this data type. A formatter may configured by casting it to the corresponding formatter class. For numeric types (DataType.Integer, DataType.Long and DataType.Real) the formatter class is NumberFormatter. For date/time types (DataType.Date, DataType.Time and DataType.DateTime it is DateTimeFormatter. The formatter class for DataType.String is StringFormatter.
	Finalize	Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection. (Inherited from Object.)
	FromExternalDataType	Converts a DataSourceDataType to a DataType.
	FromImportReaderColumn	Converts the type of a column, from an IDataReader, to the DataType used in the Data Manager.
	FromImportType	Converts the type from an import source to the DataType used in the Data Manager.
	FromName	Looks up a data type by name.
	GetDataType	Gets the DataType with the given name.
	GetRealObject	Returns the real object that should be deserialized, rather than the object that the serialized stream specifies.
	GetType	Gets the Type of the current instance. (Inherited from Object.)
	MemberwiseClone	Creates a shallow copy of the current Object. (Inherited from Object.)
	ToString	Get the name of the data type. (Overrides Object ToString .)
	TryConvertFromNumeric	Converts a value from a numeric (double) representation, to the value representation defined by dataType.
	TryConvertToNumeric	Converts a value to a numeric (double) representation.
	Validate	Validates a value with the representation type.