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Provided property value types

 

TypeDescription
booleanBoolean value, either true or false
borderCSS border string representation
color

String color value

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titleExample
#FFFFFF


dataprovider
Anchor
dataprovider
dataprovider

Reference to a dataprovider, either a record or scope/form variable.

Can become a complex definition if it needs to support onDataChange, it needs to be able to send changes to server or display tags.

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{ 
    "type": "dataprovider",
    "pushToServer": "allow", // optional: needed if you want this component
        // to be able to change the dataprovider's value on the server 
    "ondatachange": { // optional
        "onchange": "onDataChangeMethodID", // the name of a handler
            // defined in spec
        "callback": "onDataChangeCallback" // the name of an API func
            // defined by the webcomponent that will get called when
            // pushed data change is successfully applied on server
    },
    "forFoundset" : "myFoundsetPropertyName", // optional; if specified
        // then on the client instead of one value you will get an
        // array of values one for each record in the viewport of given
        // foundset property (see also 'foundset' property type)
    "displayTagsPropertyName" : "myDisplaysTagsProp", // default is null.
        // If specified then the property will initially read the
        // boolean value of the property with given name; If that
        // property is true, tags (%%x%%) will be replaced, otherwise
        // they will be ignored (in which case it will just replace i18n
        // and html); if null, tags will be replaced or not based on
        // config option "displayTags"
    "displayTags" : false, // default is false. If displayTagsPropertyName
        // is non-null it will be ignored. Otherwise, only if it's value
        // is true, this property will parse tags (%%x%%)
}

Starting with 8.4, if 'forFoundset' above is used, then the client-side (in browser) value also provides two methods: addChangeListener / removeChangeListener. So you can add a listener that will receive updates (row insert/delete/change or full viewport update) similar to how the change listener in foundset property type works.

In order for dataprovider typed properties to 'push' their value changes to the server (so changes in the browser to end up in records or scope/form variables) you must either use autoApply or directly apply / startEdit. If you do not 'apply' (auto or manually) the change, the updates will not be sent to server.

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titleIMPORTANT

In order to be able to change server-side dataprovider values using apply or svy-autoapply, the .spec file must declare that dataprovider property from the model as pushToServer: allow or higher. Otherwise the server will reject the dataprovider value updates and log a change denied warning.

Simple example of read-only dataprovider:

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title.spec
{
    "name": "my-component",
    "displayName": ...,
    (...)
    "model":
    {
            "myDataProvider" : "dataprovider",
            (...)
    }, 
    (...)
}


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title.html
<span ng-bind-html='model.myDataProvider'/>

Simple example of read-write dataprovider (with auto-apply):

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title.spec
{
    "name": "my-component",
    "displayName": ...,
    (...)
    "model":
    {
            "myDataProvider" : {
                   "type" : "dataprovider",
                   "pushToServer" : "allow"
            },
            (...)
    }, 
    (...)
}


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title.html
<input (...) ng-model="model.myDataProvider" svy-autoapply />

In server-side (solution) scripting, accessing a dataprovider property - for example "elements.myField.myDataprovider" - will yield a string: the dataprovider id (name of variable/column). You can also assign a dataprovider id (string) to that property.

dataset

JSDataSet type equivalent. Currently can be used only for runtime api or model (to send a dataset to client).

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"jsDataSet":{"type" :"dataset", "includeColumnNames": true, 
                                 "columnTypes":{ "icon" : "media" }}

The type cam have two configuration properties:

1. includeColumnNames , default false, will also send the column names as a separate array to client as the first row

2. columnTypes can specify some column types which will be used for converting the value to send client side, this is needed for non basic columns/types

dateDate value
dimension

Dimension representation

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{
	width: 100, 
	height: 20
}


doubleA floating point number
fontCSS font string
formURL string pointing to a form (like tab in tabpanel)
format

Format string.

Given an object in the .spec file - to be able to specify which dataprovider and/or valuelist property to map this format property on. The 'for' value can be one property name (pointing to a dataprovider-type property or a valuelist property), but it can also contain an array of 2 properties (one being a dataprovider-type property and the other a valuelist property).

It needs the 'for' clause to be able to deduct the type of the format (format depends on DP type, whether or not the valuelist has real/display values or not, ...). If you put a valuelist property in the "for" and that valuelist property has itself a "for" that points to a dataprovider property (that might be linked to a foundset or not) then you must add that same dataprovider property to the "for" clause of the format property as well.

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titleExample 1
myFormatProp : { type: 'format', for: 'myDataProviderProp' }


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titleExample 2
myFormatProp : { type: 'format', for: ["myValuelistProp", "myDataProviderProp"] }

Format property access from solution scripting will give the string value of the parsed format .Assignment to a 'format' typed property allows you to set a new format string .

 

function

Callback function information that can be called on server from client.
A callback function set for this type of property will be represented in the component model as a pair of "formname" and "script" that can be used as parameters for "$window.executeInlineScript" to execute it.
Example:

in the component spec

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	"model": {
		"myFunction" : { "type": "function"}
	},

in the component js implementation we use that executeInlineScript function that is exposed on the window object

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$window.executeInlineScript($scope.model.myFunction.formname,
                            $scope.model.myFunction.script, [arg1, arg2]); 

 

Note that the component need to have reference to the "$window" service, and the "formname" and ''script" values are already encrypted in the model, and you need to use those values, and not plain text values for formname and script. Arguments for the callback can be set using the last parameter of "$window.executeInlineScript"

intAn integer number
insets

Padding insets representation

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titleExample
{
	paddingTop: 10px, 
	paddingLeft: 20px,
	paddingBottom : 10px,
	paddingRight: 10px
}


labelforType for labelfor property of the label.
mapSimilar to the object type, with the addition of converting string values, like "true"/"false" to boolean types, numbers as strings to number types (useful when using developer's properties view to assign values), and supporting i18n tags as values.
mediaReference to a Media entry. Media can be specified in different ways (media name, media uuid, media url - for example "media:///servoy.jpg" -, media id).
record

Reference to a Record. You can use this type:

  • to send a Record identifier to browser/client code from server that can then be sent back to server later using the same type to become/be translated to the initial Record on server.
  • (starting with Servoy 8.3) to send a client/browser 'foundset' property type's row directly to server (using "record" property type for that); it will be translated to the actual Record on server. E.g.:

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    $scope.handlers.recordClicked($scope.model
                        .myFoundset.viewPort.rows[idx]);


  • (starting with Servoy 8.3) to send a client/browser 'foundset' property type's row to server using "foundsetProp.getRecordRefByRowID(id)". E.g:

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    // if the component uses the rowId internally to identify rows
    var rowId = $scope.model.myFoundset.viewPort
                    .rows[idx][$foundsetTypeConstants.ROW_ID_COL_KEY];
    // (...)
    // then it can just send a Record ref. to server using that
    // ID directly without the need to get the actual row
    $scope.handlers.recordClicked($scope.model.myFoundset
                        .getRecordRefByRowID(rowId));

    See also Foundset property type - Combining Foundset Property Type, Foundset Reference Type, Record type and client-to-server scripting calls if you you are curious about how 'record' type can be used in combination with other types to create complex components.

relationReference to a Relation (this is a string, so if used as a api parameter, this would just mean the relation name)
runtimecomponentThe type of component (so that components can be passed as parameters)
protected

boolean security property, can be used to protect the entire component or specific properties or handlers in the component. For more information about 'protected' property type see this page.

Configuration:

settingdescriptionexample
for

list of properties to protect,

when not specified the entire component is protected

"for": ["streetname", "updateInfoFunc"]
blockingOnwhen the property is set to this value, protection is active, default: true"blockingOn": true


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titleExample
 "enabled" : { "type": "protected", "blockingOn": false, "default": true }


point

Point representation

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titleExample
{
	x: 10, 
	y: 20
}


objectGeneric type. When using this type, you should pass primitive types or object of primitive types because conversions are not available for more complex types. You use the specific type whenever possible instead of this generic type. This relies on JSON to transfer, so for example Dates should be send as the number value (the times in milis) instead of trying to send the Date as a date object itself.
scrollbarsAn integer value which represents scrollbar definition. This type is used for designer to display special editor.
stringPlain string property. I18n keys will be resolved by default.
styleclass

String with space separated CSS classnames.Possible values supported by the component can be specified as hint for the developer

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titleExample specifying special classnames supported by the component as hint for the developer
{
	type:'styleclass', 
	values:[
		'btn',
		'btn-default',
		'btn-lg',
		'btn-sm',
		'btn-xs'
	]
}

In Servoy version below 8.3 if you name the property "styleClass" that has the "styleclass" type also element.addStyleClass and element.removeStyleClass will work and will add or remove style classes from that property. With 8.3 this still works but you can mark any styleclass property type to be the "mainStyleClass" by adding the tag 'mainStyleClass' and set the value to true for this property:

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{
	"type": "styleclass", 
    "tags": { "mainStyleClass":true}
}


tabseqTab sequence integer value. See sablo-tabseq
tagstring

String property that can contain %%tags%%, be an i18n key or <html>. It can also be a simple static string.
Will be pre-processed before being provided to web component depending on configuration options below.

Examples:

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Hello %%name%%, welcome to %%i18n:com.mycompany.mykey%% ...
    or
i18n:com.mycompany.mykey
    or
<html>...some html that can also contain JS callbacks and media...</html>
    or
just some static string

Here is how this type of property can be configured in the component's .spec file:

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myTextProperty : {
	"type" : "tagstring",
	"displayTagsPropertyName" : "myDisplaysTagsProp", // default is null.
        // If specified then the property will initially read the
        // boolean value of the property with given name; If that
        // property is true, tags (%%x%%) will be replaced, otherwise
        // they will be ignored (in which case it will just replace i18n
        // and html); if null, tags will be replaced or not based on
        // config option "displayTags"
    "displayTags" : false, // default is true. If displayTagsPropertyName
        // is non-null it will be ignored. Otherwise, only if true this
        // property will parse tags (%%x%%)
    "useParsedValueInRhino" : true, // default is false. Server side
        // scripting read/modify will work with: if false the parsed
        // (with tags/i18n already replaced, so static) value, if true
        // the non-parsed (value containing %%x%% or i18n:..., which
        // will be after modify parsed) value
    "forFoundset" : "myFoundsetPropertyName" // optional; if specified
        // then on the client instead of one value you will get an array
        // of values one for each record in the viewport of given
        // foundset property (see also 'foundset' property type)
},
displaysTags : { "type" : "boolean", "scope" : "design" } // needed only
        // if "displayTagsPropertyName" is used as above

or simply (to use default config values):

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myTextProperty: "tagstring"

Starting with 8.4, if 'forFoundset' above is used, then the client-side (in browser) value also provides two methods: addChangeListener / removeChangeListener. So you can add a listener that will receive updates (row insert/delete/change or full viewport update) similar to how the change listener in foundset property type works.

valuelist

Reference to a ValueList.

Supported configuration (in .spec file, next to the type of the property)

setting keydescriptionexample
lazyLoadingAdded in 8.2 : Setting for Global Method Valuelists only (does not affect any other type of valuelist); it helps not load values on initial display (if not needed), but only when they are really needed. "Lazy loading" must be set on the Valuelist - in the Valuelist Editor as well, otherwise it has no effect. Default and bootstrap typeahead components have this configuration set to true (default is false).
"lazyLoading": true
maxAllows limiting the number of items the valuelist will send to the browser.
"max": 500
forAllows you to provide a dataprovider-type property name (that this valuelist property will use to determine for example the type of the data - this is needed for some types of valuelist like custom valuelist)
"for": "myDPProperty"
forFoundset

Allows you to specify that this valuelist can contain different values for each record of a foundset property (for example if you have a valuelist based on a relation).

That means that client-side/in browser you get an array of valuelist entries for this valuelist property, each item in the array corresponding to the row at the same index in the specified "foundset" typed property's viewport. If the valuelist that was chosen by developer does not have different values for each row, you still get an array but with the same valuelist at all indexes.

Starting with 8.4, if 'forFoundset' is used, then the client-side (in browser) value also provides two methods: addChangeListener / removeChangeListener. So you can add a listener that will receive updates (row insert/delete/change or full viewport update) similar to how the change listener in foundset property type works.

@since Servoy 8.3.2

"forFoundset": "myFoundset"

Valuelist property access from solution scripting will give the valuelist name. Assignment to a 'valuelist' typed property allows two types of values:

  • if you assign a String to it that will be interpreted as a valuelist name - and the valuelist with the given name is put in that property
  • if that property already contains a custom valuelist and you assign a Dataset to it then it will alter the items of the custom valuelist for that property of that element only.

For example:

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// will output the name of the valuelist that is currently in "myValuelistProp"
application.output(elements.mycomponent.myValuelistProp);

// the following code would change the items of a custom valuelist inside one
// of the columns of a servoy-extra table component
elements.myExtraTable.columns[1].valuelist = databaseManager.convertToDataSet(
    new Array({ d: 'Item 1', r: 1}, { d: 'Item 2', r: 2},
              { d: 'Item 3', r: 3}, { d: 'Item 4', r: 4},
              { d: 'Item 5', r: 5}, { d: 'Item 6', r: 6}), ["d", "r"]);

Client side, the valuelist will be an array of objects (items), each item will have two properties: "realValue" and "displayValue". If Valuelist is defined only having display values, realValue client side will be the same as display value:

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$scope.$watch('model.valuelistID', function() {
    var valuelist = $scope.model.valuelistID;
    if (!valuelist || valuelist.length == 0) return;

    hasRealValues = false;
    for (var i = 0; i < .length; i++) {
        var item = valuelist[i];
        if (item.realValue != item.displayValue) {
            hasRealValues = true;
            break;
        }
    }
});

Client side, valuelist also has some API that can be used: filterList and getDisplayValue. Filter list api takes a filter parameter and applies it to valuelist server side, then filtered valuelist will be sent to client (in same property). This is used for typeahead component:

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uib-typeahead="value.displayValue |
               formatFilter:model.format.display:model.format.type
               for value in model.valuelistID.filterList($viewValue)"

Get display value API is used to retrieve a display value taking real value as parameter from server. This is needed in cases where valuelist has many items and we don't send all items client side for performance reasons (see max property, also settings server side).

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$scope.model.valuelistID.getDisplayValue($scope.model.dataProviderID)
.then(function(displayValue) {
	$scope.value = displayValue;
});

Both functions return a promise that will be resolved when response comes from server, will receive as parameter the new filtered valuelist (beware also valuelist from model will be filtered) respectively the display value.

visible

boolean security property, when set to false the component is protected from client data changes and function calls, data changes from the server are not sent to the client. For more information about 'visible' property type see this page.

settingdescriptionexample
for

list of properties to protect,

when not specified the entire component is protected
"for": ["streetname", "updateInfoFunc"]


foundsetUsed to interact with server-side foundset from the browser (component properties can have this type). See Foundset property type.
foundsetRefCan be used to send a 'reference' to a server side foundset to the client. Useful mostly in handlers or server-side-API-calls as argument type or return type. If server-side scripting returns/gives a foundset to such a type, browser side scripting will receive an unique foundsetId/reference to that foundset. Browser/client side scripting can later send that id back to server-side scripting and it will automatically be transformed into the original foundset object by this property type. See also Foundset property type - Combining Foundset Property Type, Foundset Reference Type, Record type and client-to-server scripting calls.
rowRef

 

Property value type modifiers:

ModifierDescriptionApplicable for type
tagsSee the Tags Section in Specification page.


 
values

Fixed values, can have real/display values.

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titleExample with display and real values
[{"LEFT":2}, {"CENTER":0},{"RIGHT":4}]


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titleExample with plain values
[
    'btn',
    'btn-default',
    'btn-lg',
    'btn-sm',
    'btn-xs'
]


 
defaultDefines the default value being used. 
onDataChangeSee dataprovider typedataprovider
forReference to another property. Can be value or array of values. 

Note: defaults now also get applied to the model. This might change. Best practice is to initialize the model properties with values in the directive's link method and specify the same values as defaults in the .spec file for proper display in Servoy Developer. 

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