com.ibm.openpages.api.application

Interface ICognosReportColumnValue

public interface ICognosReportColumnValue

The generic type for all column values returned from an ICognosReportRow. Contains the information about the column as well as the value. Cast the getValue() object to a specific type to get the value in its native Java type.

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method and Description
java.lang.String	getColumnName() Gets the name of the column.
java.lang.String	getDataType() Gets the data type of the column.
java.lang.Object	getValue() Gets the value of the column in the report row.

Method Detail

getColumnName

java.lang.String getColumnName()

Gets the name of the column.

Returns:

the name of the column as identified by the metadata of the Cognos report output

getDataType

java.lang.String getDataType()

Gets the data type of the column.

Returns:

the type of the column as identified by the metadata of the Cognos report output

getValue

java.lang.Object getValue()

Gets the value of the column in the report row. Depending on the data type, refer to the following table to determine the Java type to cast to.

XML Schema Data Type	Cast to Java type...
boolean	java.lang.Boolean
byte	java.lang.Byte
short	java.lang.Short
int, unsignedShort	java.lang.Integer
long, unsignedInt	java.lang.Long
float	java.lang.Float
double	java.lang.Double
integer, nonPositiveInteger, nonNegativeInteger, negativeInteger, unsignedLong, positiveInteger	java.math.BigInteger
decimal	java.math.BigDecimal
string, durationsgYearMonth, gYear, gMonthDay, gDay, gMonth, NOTATION, token, normalizedString, language, Name, NMTOKEN, NCName, ID, IDREF, ENTITY	java.lang.String
dateTime,time,date	java.util.Calendar
base64Binary, hexBinary	byte[]
anyURI	java.net.URI
NMTOKENS, IDREFS, ENTITIES	java.lang.String[]
Qname	javax.xml.namespace.QName

Returns:

Object representing the value of the column in the report row, or null.