This command gets the data types supported by the database.
Result set columns: Ordered by TYPE_ID
.
Name | Data Type | Description |
---|---|---|
NAME | string | type name |
TYPE_ID | number | data type ID |
PRECISION | number | precision |
LITERAL_PREFIX | string | literal quote prefix |
LITERAL_SUFFIX | string | literal quote suffix |
CREATE_PARAMS | string | type creation parameters |
IS_NULLABLE | boolean | NULL values are allowed |
CASE_SENSITIVE | boolean | is case sensitive |
SEARCHABLE | number | how the type can be used in a WHERE clause: 0: cannot be searched 1: can only be searched with WHERE .. LIKE 2: cannot be searched with WHERE .. LIKE 3: can be searched with any WHERE clause |
UNSIGNED_ATTRIBUTE | boolean | is unsigned |
FIXED_PREC_SCALE | boolean | has fixed representation |
AUTO_INCREMENT | boolean | is an automatically incremented type |
LOCAL_TYPE_NAME | string | localized type name |
MINIMUM_SCALE | number | minimum scale |
MAXIMUM_SCALE | number | maximum scale |
SQL_DATA_TYPE | number | SQL data type |
SQL_DATETIME_SUB | number | datetime and interval subtype |
NUM_PREC_RADIX | number | number base |
INTERVAL_PRECISION | number | interval precision |
If the command returns a result set which has less than 1,000 rows of data, the data will be provided in the data
field of resultSet
. However if the command returns a result set which has 1,000 or more rows of data, a result set will be opened whose handle is returned in the resultSetHandle
field of resultSet
. Using this handle, the data from the result set can be retrieved using the fetch
command. Once the result set is no longer needed, it should be closed using the closeResultSet
command.
Request fields:
- command (string) => command name: "getTypeInfo"
- attributes (object, optional) => attributes to set for the connection (see Attributes) Request JSON format
{
"command": "getTypeInfo",
"attributes": {
// as defined separately
}
}
Response fields:
- status (string) => command status: "ok" or "error"
- attributes (object, optional) => attributes set for the connection (see Attributes)
- responseData (object, optional) => only present if status is "ok"
- numResults (number) => number of result objects
- results (object[]) => array of result objects
- resultType (string) => type of result: "resultSet"
- resultSet (object) => result set
- resultSetHandle (number, optional) => result set handle
- numColumns (number) => number of columns in the result set
- numRows (number) => number of rows in the result set
- numRowsInMessage (number) => number of rows in the current message
- columns (object[]) => array of column metadata objects
- name (string) => column name
- dataType (object) => column metadata
- type (string) => column data type
- precision (number, optional) => column precision
- scale (number, optional) => column scale
- size (number, optional) => maximum size in bytes of a column value
- characterSet (string, optional) => character encoding of a text column
- data (array[], optional) => object containing the data in column-major order
- exception (object, optional) => only present if status is "error"
- text (string) => exception message which provides error details
- sqlCode (string) => five-character exception code if known, otherwise "00000"
Response JSON format
{
"status": <"ok" | "error">,
"attributes": {
// as defined separately
},
// in case of "ok"
"responseData": {
"numResults": <number>,
"results": [ {
"resultType": "resultSet",
"resultSet": {
"resultSetHandle": <number>,
"numColumns": <number>,
"numRows": <number>,
"numRowsInMessage": <number>,
"columns": [ {
"name": <string>,
"dataType": {
"type": <string>,
"precision": <number>,
"scale": <number>,
"size": <number>,
"characterSet": <string>
}
} ],
"data": [
[
<string | number | true | false | null>
]
]
}
} ]
},
// in case of "error"
"exception": {
"text": <string>,
"sqlCode": <string>
}
}