User-Defined Representation Attributes Types

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By default, Rogue Wave® Server supports a limited number of representation attributes types. However, you can define your own representation attributes using user-defined types, providing that:

They derive directly or transitively from the class IlsMvUserType.

They declare the macro ILS_USERTYPE_DECL.

The source file implementing their functions includes the macro ILS_USERTYPE_DEF.

They implement the following member functions declared by the macro ILS_USERTYPE_DECL:

IlsMvMessage& ilsEncode(IlsMvMessage&) const;

This pure virtual member function is used by Rogue Wave Server to encode the user-defined type instance into a message of the server generic protocol.

IlsMvUserType* IlsDecode(IlsMvMessage&);

This static member function is used to decode a message of the server generic protocol and create a new user-defined type instance from the decoded data.

constructor(const MyUserType&);

This copy constructor is invoked when the user type is copied. This constructor must invoke the base class copy constructor to comply with IlsMvUserType life cycle management rules.

constructor(const IlsMvValue&);

This constructor is called when the user-defined type is used as a parameter passed to a server runtime function called from the component (for details, see the function IlsRpObject::execCallback, described in the Rogue Wave Server Reference Manual.)

In the example below, the name of an employee is replaced with an instance of the user-defined attribute type Identity. You want to represent this type of value directly in the DepartmentTable view type.

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