Generated Field Functions

The functions in the table below are generated for the fields of database classes (classname_fieldname) and structure elements (structname_fieldname) specified in the schema. The actual functions generated depend on the type of field. They are grouped according to the following categories:

Scalar

Fields of type signed, unsigned, float, double, numeric (or decimal), ref, autoid_t, date, time, datetime and rect

String_Binary Fixed length arrays of type char, nchar, wchar,binary and fields of type string (variable length char array), nstring ( variable length nchar array), wstring ( variable length wchar array) and varbinary (( variable length binary array)
Vector Fixed length arrays or scalar types (eg. time t[4];) and fields of type vector (variable length array)
Numeric Fields of type numeric or decimalwhich have generated functions in addition to those for scalar types
Structure Fields of type structname where structname is a structure defined in the schema
Blob Fields of type blob (Binary Large OBject)
Sequence Fields of type sequence