staticTypeOf() Operation

Syntax

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set type = anyObject.staticTypeOf();

Semantics Returns the type of any object it has had at compile-time. To get the type the object has at run-time use the typeOf() Operation. typeOf() and staticTypeOf() may return the same type, though.

Substitutables type Can be any variable or object attribute having the type String.

anyObject Can be any object.

Examples

Assume you have the following class structure:

A type Customer derives from a type Person and adds an additional attribute.

Now assume further you have an object of each class (aPerson and aCustomer) and the following action script:

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set aPerson = aCustomer;
set staticTypeOfaPerson = aPerson.staticTypeOf();
set typeOfaPerson = aPerson.typeOf();

typeOfaPerson will be Customer, staticTypeOfaPerson will be Person, which is the type the object had originally been created with.

Find below a list of all Bridge Base Types together with their type string as returned by typeOf() and staticTypeOf().

Bridge Base Type	Type String
Any	urn:Base_Types.Any
Array	urn:Base_Types.Array
Blob	urn:Base_Types.Blob
Boolean	urn:Base_Types.Boolean
DateTime	urn:Base_Types.DateTime
Float	urn:Base_Types.Float
Integer	urn:Base_Types.Integer
String	urn:Base_Types.String

Other, e.g. model specific, types can be referenced via their path in the containment tree, e.g. a class customer that has been defined in the UML package Services/TypeOperationsService/Classes/Customer would have the following type string:
"urn:Services.TypeOperationsService.Classes.Customer".

Example File (Builder project Basic Modeling/ClassOperation):

<your example path>\Basic Modeling\ClassOperation\uml\typeOperations.xml

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