IPWorks EDI 2020 Node.js Edition

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ElementComponentType Property

The data type of class selected by ClassIndex , according to the Transaction Set Schema.

Syntax

 vdareader.getElementComponentType(index, [callback])

Default Value

""

Callback

The 'callback' parameter specifies a function which will be called when the operation completes (or an error is encountered). If the 'callback' parameter is not specified, then the method will block and will not return until the operation completes (or an error is encountered).

The callback for the getElementComponentType([callback]) method is defined as:

function(err, data){ }

'err' is the error that occurred. If there was no error, then 'err' is 'null'.

'data' is the value returned by the method.

The callback for the setElementComponentType([callback]) method is defined as:

function(err){ }

'err' is the error that occurred. If there was no error, then 'err' is 'null'.

'err' has 2 properties which hold detailed information:

err.code
err.message

Remarks

The data type of component selected by ElementComponentIndex, according to the Transaction Set Schema.

Possible values are:

ANAlphaNumeric
IDIdentifier; allowed values might be defined by the transaction set schema
NNumeric
RFloating-point number
DTDateTime
TMTime
NoneType is unknown or not provided by the schema
CompositeThis element has multiple components

The index parameter specifies the index of the item in the array. The size of the array is controlled by the ElementCount property.

This property is read-only and not available at design time.

Data Type

String

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