[OGo-Developer] Object Properties Question

[Adam Tauno Williams]

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> > The preferredType would be necessary for client applications to
> > determine how to display/manage the property value.  Otherwise it is
> > impossible to tell a string from a BLOB encoded as a string, for
> > instance.
> Yes, properties do not have a type. However, when you retrieve a =20
> property you can derive some information from the type of the value =20
> object you got (NSData for blobs, NSNumber for numbers, NSString for =20
> strings, etc).

Ah, that makes sense.

> Summary: works as expected ;-) Do not attempt to put more features =20
> into properties, they are supposed to be the database equivalent of =20
> property lists attached to an object.

Gotcha,  proceeding in a different direction then.

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