Scout/Concepts/Type of Data

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Scout contains several implementation of fields and columns to cover the most common types of data that are used in business application. These implementations provide formatting and parsing mechanisms (taking care of the locale settings). In some cases a picker is also associated to the field to improve the user experience.

For the developer of a scout application, this also enables to manipulate the value of the field with the corresponding Java Object (no need to cast and to parse the text input).

Types

Text

• String Column
• String Field

Integer

• Integer Column
• Integer Field

Long

• Long Column
• Long Field

Double

• Double Column
• Double Field

Date

• Date Column
• Date Field

Time

Time is store in a Java Date Object (Between 1970-01-01 00:00:00.000 and 1970-01-01 23:59:59.999).

• Time Column
• Time Field

The DateUtility class provides method to convert this value to a double in the interval [0.0, 1.0[ or to combine the time represented in the Date with a Date without any time.

Boolean

• Boolean Column
• Boolean Field also called Checkbox Field

Smart<T>

This is not a Java Data type. Smart is a scout concept to designate a smart association realized with CodeType or LookupCall. The Key of type T can be any Serializable java Object (Long, String, …). We speak from a Smart association, because there is more than just a text (display text) associated to the key (Icon, Color, TooltipText...)

• Smart Column
• Smart Field

See also

• Form Field
• Table Column
• Client Plug-In