| Constant Class |
Represents a constant value in the schema.
Inheritance HierarchyNamespace: Bloomberglp.Blpapi
Assembly: Bloomberglp.Blpapi (in Bloomberglp.Blpapi.dll) Version: 3.10.3.1
SyntaxThe Constant type exposes the following members.
Constructors
Properties| Name | Description | |
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 | Datatype | Gets the Datatype used to represent the value of this Constant.
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| Description | Gets a String containing a human readable description of this
Constant.
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| Name | Gets the symbolic name of the constant.
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| Status | Gets the status of this Constant.
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| UserData | Gets or sets the user data associated with this Constant.
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Methods| Name | Description | |
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 | GetValueAsChar | Gets the value of this Constant as a char if it can be converted.
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| GetValueAsDate | Obsolete. |
| GetValueAsDatetime | Gets the value of this Constant as a Datetime if it can be converted.
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| GetValueAsFloat32 | Gets the value of this Constant as a Float32 if it can be converted.
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| GetValueAsFloat64 | Gets the value of this Constant as a Float64 if it can be converted.
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| GetValueAsInt32 | Gets the value of this Constant as an Int32 if it can be converted.
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| GetValueAsInt64 | Gets the value of this Constant as an Int64 if it can be converted.
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| GetValueAsString | Gets the value of this Constant as a string if it can be converted.
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| GetValueAsTime | Obsolete. |
| Print(Stream) | Prints this constant into 'output'.
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| Print(TextWriter) | Prints this constant into 'writer'.
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RemarksConstants can be any of the following DataTypes: BOOL, CHAR, BYTE, INT32, INT64, FLOAT32, FLOAT64, STRING, DATE, TIME, DATETIME. As well as the constants value this class also provides access to the symbolic name, description and status of the constant.
Constants are read-only and always created by the API, never by the application.
Thread SafetyConstant is safe for multithreaded operations
except for SetUserData and Userdata methods.
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