Built-in classes

Built-in classes are classes whose instances are objects belonging to primitive data types such as integers, strings, etc.

Class name	Description	lsFusion literals
INTEGER	32-bit integer	5, 23, 1000000000
LONG	64-bit integer	5l, 23L, 10000000000000L
DOUBLE	64-bit floating point number	5.0d, 2.35D
NUMERIC[ , ]	Number with fixed width and precision	5.0, 2.35
BOOLEAN	Logical data type	TRUE, NULL
TBOOLEAN	Logical data type (3-state)	TTRUE, TFALSE, NULL
DATE	Date	13_07_1982
DATETIME	Date and time	13_07_1982_18:00
TIME	Time	18:00
YEAR	Year
STRING, STRING[ ]	String data type with optional maximum length, case-sensitive
ISTRING, ISTRING[ ]	String data type with optional maximum length, case-insensitive
BPSTRING[]	String data type with maximum length, case-sensitive, padded at the end with spaces	'text', 'text with\nbreak'
BPISTRING[]	String data type with maximum length, case-insensitive, padded at the end with spaces
TEXT	String data type of arbitrary length, case-sensitive
RICHTEXT	String data type of arbitrary length with formatting
COLOR	Color	#00ccff, #AA55CC, RGB(0, 255, 0)
FILE	File of dynamic type (file content together with extension)
RAWFILE, WORDFILE, IMAGEFILE, PDFFILE, EXCELFILE, CSVFILE, HTMLFILE, JSONFILE, XMLFILE, TABLEFILE	Files of specific type (RAWFILE: file with no extension or with unknown extension)
LINK	Link to a file (URI)
RAWLINK, WORDLINK, IMAGELINK, PDFLINK, EXCELLINK, CSVLINK, HTMLLINK, JSONLINK, XMLLINK, TABLELINK	Link to a file of a specific type (RAWLINK: link to a file with no extension or an unknown extension)

Inheritance

The builtin classes can be divided into four class families (assuming that each of the remaining classes forms its own class family)

Class family	Description
Numbers	INTEGER, LONG, DOUBLE, NUMERIC[ , ]
Strings	STRING, STRING[ ], ISTRING, ISTRING[], BPSTRING[ ], BPISTRING[ ], TEXT
Files of a specific type	RAWFILE, WORDFILE, IMAGEFILE, PDFFILE, EXCELFILE, CSVFILE, HTMLFILE, JSONFILE, XMLFILE, TABLEFILE
Links to files of a specific type	RAWLINK, WORDLINK, IMAGELINK, PDFLINK, EXCELLINK, CSVLINK, HTMLLINK, JSONLINK, XMLLINK, TABLELINK

The builtin classes inherit only from one another within a single family, and cannot inherit from or be inherited by user classes. Inheritance within each family works on the principle that the narrower class inherits from the broader one.

Common ancestor

According to this inheritance mechanism, the common ancestor of two builtin classes (e.g. for the selection operation) is determined as follows:

Strings

result = STRING[blankPadded = s1.blankPadded OR s2.blankPadded, 
                caseInsensitive = s1.caseInsensitive OR s2.caseInsensitive, 
                length = MAX(s1.length, s2.length)]
            

where blankPadded, caseInsensitive and length are in turn determined as:

Class name	blankPadded	caseInsensitive	length
STRING[n]	false	false	n
ISTRING[n]	false	true	n
BPSTRING[n]	true	false	n
BPISTRING[n]	true	true	n
TEXT	false	false	infinite

Numbers

IF p1.integerPart >= p2.integerPart AND p1.precision >= p2.precision
    result = p1 
ELSE IF p1.integerPart <= p2.integerPart AND p1.precision <= p2.precision
    result = p2 
ELSE IF p1.integerPart > p2.integerPart  
    result = NUMERIC[p1.integerPart+p2.precision, p2.precision]
ELSE  
    result = NUMERIC[p2.integerPart+p1.precision, p1.precision]

where integerPart and precision, in turn, are determined as:

Class name	integerPart	precision
INTEGER	10	0
DOUBLE	99999	99999
LONG	20	0
NUMERIC[l,p]	length-precision	precision

Files of a specific type

IF p1 = p2
    result = p1
ELSE
    result = RAWFILE

Links to files of a specific type

IF p1 = p2
    result = p1
ELSE
    result = RAWLINK

Note that sometimes in programming the definition of a common parent class is associated with implicit typecasting.

Default value

It is sometimes necessary to use some value for a built-in class which will differ from NULL (for example, in an import condition with data import). Let's call this value the default value. It is defined as follows:

Class name	Default value
Numerical classes	0
Strings	The empty string
DATE, TIME, DATETIME	The current date / time / date and time
BOOLEAN	TRUE
COLOR	White
Files of a specific type	Empty file
FILE	Empty file with empty extension

Extensions of specific type files

When files of a specific type (JSONFILE, XMLFILE, ...) are cast into a file of dynamic type (FILE), whether explicitly or implicitly (e.g. with data import without specifying a format or when working with external systems), the extension of the result file is determined as follows:

Class name	Extension
RAWFILE	The empty string
JSONFILE	json
XMLFILE	xml
CSVFILE	csv
WORDFILE	doc
EXCELFILE	xls
HTMLFILE	html
PDFFILE	pdf
IMAGEFILE	jpg
TABLEFILE	table

The order of determining the result property when accessing from an external system

Class name	Property name
FILE, RAWFILE, WORDFILE, IMAGEFILE, PDFFILE, EXCELFILE, CSVFILE, HTMLFILE, JSONFILE, XMLFILE, TABLEFILE	exportFile, exportRawFile, exportWordFile, exportImageFile, exportPdfFile, exportExcelFile, exportCsvFile, exportHtmlFile, exportJsonFile, exportXmlFile
TEXT, STRING, BPSTRING	exportText, exportString, exportBPString
NUMERIC, LONG, INTEGER, DOUBLE	exportNumeric, exportLong, exportInteger, exportDouble
DATETIME, DATE, TIME, YEAR	exportDateTime, exportDate, exportTime, exportYear
LINK, RAWLINK, WORDLINK, IMAGELINK, PDFLINK, EXCELLINK, CSVLINK, HTMLLINK, JSONLINK, XMLLINK, TABLELINK	exportFile, exportRawFile, exportWordFile, exportImageFile, exportPdfFile, exportExcelFile, exportCsvFile, exportHtmlFile, exportJsonFile, exportXmlFile
BOOLEAN, COLOR	exportBoolean, exportColor
User classes	exportObject