On 2010-10-27, at 8:57 AM, Simon wrote:

> hi all - is there an easy / quick way to figure out the type of a
> particular attribute in code ?
> 
> e.g. i want to know what type (ie. Integer, BigDecimal, String) the
> column X is of entity Y



See EOEntity, EOAttribute, ERXEOAccessUtilities:

If you have an EO you can get it's entity (EOEntity).
If you know the attribute name you can get the attribute (EOAtrribute) from the 
entity.
If you know the column name you can get the attribute using 
ERXEOAccessUtilities' attributeWithColumnNameFromEntity 
You can get the externalType from the attribute.

;david

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