typeOf() Operation

Syntax

NONE

set type = anyObject.typeOf();

Semantics

Returns the type of any object at run-time. To get the type the object has had at compile-time use the staticTypeOf() 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

NONE

set aString = anObject.attribute if anObject.attribute.typeOf() = "urn:Base_Types.String";

aString gets the value of anObject.attribute assigned, if the type matches.

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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