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Include a character ValueType

Tony Sheehy 12 years ago • updated by anonymous 9 years ago • 2

There is currently no character field in Identity Broker. This is currently worked around by storing those values in the StringValue field:

GET: entity.GetValue<StringValue>(...).Value0;
SET: entity.SetValue<StringValue>(character.ToString(...));

However if this won't take much time it might be more descriptive to include a character field type.

Adam van Vliet 12 years ago

The idea would have been to just use string. And with the max length validator, it would function in the same way.

I don't see a huge benefit here for users. I don't even know of a connector that uses a character type. I'm not sure I could justify doing the work. Any thoughts?

Tony Sheehy 12 years ago

In retrospect I agree that there isn't enough to justify this; as for connectors, the one that made me think of this was the Aderant Expert connector, and extrapolating from there I would imagine there would be quite a few connectors that represent gender as 'm' vs. 'f' and the like.

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