ClarifyGeneric Class

Provides core Clarify business logic and managed access to Clarify data.

Syntax

Visual Basic
C#

'Declaration
 
<DefaultMemberAttribute("Item")>
Public Class ClarifyGeneric 
   Inherits FChoice.Foundation.FCGeneric

[DefaultMemberAttribute("Item")]
public class ClarifyGeneric : FChoice.Foundation.FCGeneric

Remarks

This is the core business object in FCFL.NET. Each instance of ClarifyGeneric represents records from tables and views in the Clarify database. The generic object allows you to query the database for rows in the table or view, add new table rows, or update or delete existing table rows (NOTE: updates are only available for tables, views are read-only).

Generics are created from a ClarifyDataSet object using CreateGeneric, or by traversing from a parent generic (using Traverse). Generics inherit properties from their session such as whether or not they are distinct by default (DefaultDistinctGenerics) or whether First Choice Data Restrictions are enabled (RestrictionsEnabled).

Generics created using Traverse from a parent generic always belong to the same ClarifyDataSet as the parent generic.

Example

This example shows the various ways to create a generic.

// First, create a new ClarifyDataSet
ClarifyDataSet dataSet = new ClarifyDataSet(session);

// Create a generic from the ClarifyDataSet based on the site table
ClarifyGeneric gSite = dataSet.CreateGeneric("site");
gSite.Query();

// Also, generics can be created by traversing from a parent
// In this example, gAddr is a child of gSite using the cust_primaddr2address
// relation
ClarifyGeneric gAddr = gSite.Traverse("cust_primaddr2address");

// This queries both gSite and gAddr
gSite.Query()

Visual Basic

' First, create a new ClarifyDataSet
Dim dataSet As New ClarifyDataSet(session)

' Create a generic from the ClarifyDataSet based on the site table
Dim gSite As ClarifyGeneric = dataSet.CreateGeneric("site")
gSite.Query()

' Also, generics can be created by traversing from a parent
' In this example, gAddr is a child of gSite using the cust_primaddr2address
' relation
Dim gAddr As ClarifyGeneric = gSite.Traverse("cust_primaddr2address")

' This queries both gSite and gAddr
gSite.Query()

Inheritance Hierarchy

System.Object
FChoice.Foundation.FCGeneric
FChoice.Foundation.Clarify.ClarifyGeneric

Requirements

Namespace: FChoice.Foundation.Clarify

Platforms: Windows XP, Windows Server 2003 and 2008 family

Assembly: fcSDK (in C:\dovetail\dovetail-sdk\build\Release\fcSDK.dll)

Reference

ClarifyGeneric Members
FChoice.Foundation.Clarify Namespace