IIdentifyingField Interface

Gets the containing element

Gets or sets the description of this Field

The field index, starting with 0, for this field. A field index is by default -1 (undefined) and is used to sort fields in a given order. It is not used as external index for code generation, but solely for field ordering inside the fields of a groupable model element (except for stored procedure calls).

Gets the type of the field.

Gets the field type as string, or string.Empty if field type is null.

Gets the full name of the field.

Gets the full name with container.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether this instance is the discriminator field of the containing entity. Ignored in value types.

Gets a value indicating whether this instance is a foreign key field.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether this field is optional .

Gets or sets a value indicating whether this instance is part of the identifying fields

Gets the IsReadOnly flag

Gets the maximum length of this field.

Gets or sets the name of this Field

Sets the name validator to use.

Gets the output setting values of this target.

Gets the precision.

Gets the scale.

Gets or sets a value indicating whether events have to be suppressed

Gets the target element type of this target.

Gets the name of the element.

Clones this instance

Gets the additional interfaces, if applicable, for this element, where the default interfaces are prefiltered with the ignored interfaces defined in this element. All interface macros are replaced with real names.

Gets the additional namespaces, if applicable, for this element, where the default namespaces are prefiltered with the ignored namespaces defined in this element. All namespace macros are replaced with real names.

Gets the attributes, if applicable, for this element, where the default attributes are prefiltered with the ignored attributes defined in this element. All name macros and $length/$precision/$scale macros are replaced with real values. (if applicable)

Gets the real setting value of the setting with the name specified as string. Also resolves any macros defined in the value (if any) to real values.

Marks this field as removed. This routine will raise INotifyAsRemoved.ElementRemoved

Event which is raised when a string based member of this object has been changed. Which string based member and its old/new value is enclosed in the event args.

Raised when the implementing element has been removed from its container

Event for signaling a change in this object