info.informatica.data.field
Class BinaryField

java.lang.Object
  info.informatica.data.field.DataType
      info.informatica.data.field.BinaryField

public class BinaryField
extends DataType

Binary field.

Version:

1.02

Author:

amengual at informatica dot info

Field Summary

Fields inherited from class info.informatica.data.field.DataType

DEFAULT_TYPE

Constructor Summary

BinaryField()

Method Summary

Object	objectValue(FieldName varname, String value) Transforms a String value into the appropriate Java object, parsing as needed.
Object	sample() Provide a sample of this data type.
String	toString() Gets the description of this data entity.

Methods inherited from class info.informatica.data.field.DataType

create, createAs, dataType, equals, getDefaultClassName, getFormat, getIntType, getJavaSQLType, getName, getSize, getTypeName, hashCode, setFormat, setJavaSQLType, setSize, validate, validate

Methods inherited from class java.lang.Object

getClass, notify, notifyAll, wait, wait, wait

Constructor Detail

BinaryField

public BinaryField()

Method Detail

objectValue

public Object objectValue(FieldName varname,
                          String value)
                   throws DataFieldException

Transforms a String value into the appropriate Java object, parsing as needed.

Specified by:

objectValue in class DataType

Parameters:

varname - the name of the entity whose value has to be processed.

value - the value to be parsed/transformed.

Throws:

DataFieldException

toString

public String toString()

Gets the description of this data entity.

Overrides:

toString in class DataType

Returns:

the description of this data entity

sample

public Object sample()

Description copied from class: DataType

Provide a sample of this data type. Should be reasonably random.

Overrides:

sample in class DataType

Returns:

the sample, or null if no suitable sample could be produced.