in a somewhat related question, is it possible to add properties to a class from a script? (velocity, groovy, etc)
Dan From: Marius Dumitru Florea [via XWiki] Sent: Wednesday, August 03, 2016 2:11 AM To: dullfig Subject: Re: How to get property data type On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Alexandru Cotiuga < [hidden email]> wrote: > Hello Dan, > > To find out what is the data type of a field you need to get the its class > with $field.class and depending on your needs, you can have something like: > $field (1) > $field.class (class java.lang.Integer) > $field.class.name (java.lang.Integer) > $field.class.simpleName (Integer) > If by "field" Dan means the property of an object attached to a wiki page #set ($field = $xwiki.getDocument('Blog.BlogIntroduction').getObject('Blog.BlogPostClass').getProperty('publishDate')) then the field type can be obtained from the XClass #set ($fieldType = $xwiki.getDocument('Blog.BlogPostClass').getxWikiClass().get('publishDate')) $fieldType.classType $fieldType.type This is documented at http://platform.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/DevGuide/APIGuide#HAccessobjectsinapage . Hope this helps, Marius > > Hope this is what you need, > Alex > > On Wed, Aug 3, 2016 at 2:07 AM, dullfig <[hidden email]> wrote: > > > hello: > > > > This seems like a simple question, but I looked through the API and > > couldn't > > igure it out. How do you get the data type of a field? is there a way to > > know from velocity if a field is a text field, number, date, etc? > > > > Dan > > > > > > > > -- > > View this message in context: > > > http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/How-to-get-property-data-type-tp7600548.html > > Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > _______________________________________________ > > users mailing list > > [hidden email] > > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > > > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list > [hidden email] > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users > _______________________________________________ users mailing list [hidden email] http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- If you reply to this email, your message will be added to the discussion below: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/How-to-get-property-data-type-tp7600548p7600551.html To unsubscribe from How to get property data type, click here. NAML -- View this message in context: http://xwiki.475771.n2.nabble.com/How-to-get-property-data-type-tp7600548p7600560.html Sent from the XWiki- Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ users mailing list users@xwiki.org http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/users