Checks whether the value (assumed to be an integer) is an attribute of a dynamic type.

Parameters:

name (required)

value_varname (required)

Author:

Michael Bryzek <mbryzek@arsdigita.com>

Created:

12/30/2000

Testcases:

acs_subsite_attributes

wrapper for the acs_attribute.create_attribute call. Note that this procedure assumes type-specific storage.

Switches:

-default (optional)

-min_n_values (optional)

-max_n_values (optional)

Parameters:

object_type (required)

datatype (required)

pretty_name (required)

pretty_plural (required)

Returns:

The attribute_id of the newly created attribute

Author:

Michael Bryzek <mbryzek@arsdigita.com>

Created:

12/2000

Testcases:

acs_subsite_attributes

Adds form elements to the specified form_id. Each form element corresponds to an attribute belonging to the given object_type.

Switches:

-form_id (optional)

ID of a form to add form elements to.

-start_with (optional, defaults to "acs_object")

Object type to start with. Defaults to acs_object.

-object_type (optional, defaults to "acs_object")

Object type to extract attributes for. Defaults to acs_object.

-variable_prefix (optional)

Variable prefix.

Testcases:

No testcase defined.

Fills in 2 arrays used for displaying attributes

Switches:

-start_with (optional, defaults to "acs_object")

-include_storage_types (optional, defaults to "type_specific")

Parameters:

array_name (required)

The name of the array to hold the basic attribute information. The attributes defined are: * array_name(pretty_name:$name) The pretty_name of the attribute * array_name(id:$name) The attribute_id of the attribute * array_name(datatype:$name) The datatype of the attribute

enum_array_name (required)

The name of the array to hold the pretty name of the values of an enumeration. This is only used when the datatype of the attribute_name is enumeration. This array is a mapping from "$attribute_name:enum_value" to value_pretty_name.

object_type (required)

The object for which we are looking up attributes

Returns:

A list of all the names of attributes we looked up. This list can be used to iterated through the arrays:

            set attr_list [attribute::array_for_type attr_props enum_values "group"]
            foreach key $attr_list {
                set attribute_id $attr_props(id:$attribute_name)
                ...
            }
        

Author:

Michael Bryzek <mbryzek@arsdigita.com>

Created:

1/8/2001

Testcases:

No testcase defined.

Returns the appropriate sql type for a table definition based on the table, column, datatype, and default value. Note that for default values, this proc automatically generates appropriate constraint names as well.

Switches:

-default (optional)

If specified, we add a default clause to the SQL statement

Parameters:

table (required)

column (required)

datatype (required)

Author:

Michael Bryzek <mbryzek@arsdigita.com>

Created:

12/2000

Testcases:

No testcase defined.

Returns 1 if we have a validator for this datatype. 0 otherwise. We currently do not support the "date" datatype and hardcoded support for enumeration. This is hardcoded in this procedure. Also, this procedure assumes that validators are procedures named ::template::data::validate::$datatype

Parameters:

datatype (required)

Author:

Michael Bryzek <mbryzek@arsdigita.com>

Created:

12/2000

Testcases:

acs_subsite_attribute_datatypes

Delete the specified attribute id and all its values. This is irreversible. Returns 1 if the attribute was actually deleted. 0 otherwise.

Parameters:

attribute_id (required)

Author:

Michael Bryzek <mbryzek@arsdigita.com>

Created:

12/2000

Testcases:

acs_subsite_attributes

Returns 1 if the object type already has an attribute of the given name.

Switches:

-convert_p (optional, defaults to "t")

If t, we convert the attribute using plsql_utility::generate_oracle_name

Parameters:

object_type (required)

orig_attribute (required)

The attribute in which we are interested. Note that if convert_p is set to t, we will internally look for the converted attribute name

Returns:

1 if the object type already has an attribute of the specified name. 0 otherwise

Author:

Michael Bryzek <mbryzek@arsdigita.com>

Created:

12/2000

Testcases:

acs_subsite_attributes

Sets up a multirow datasource containing the attribute values of object_id. We only support specific storage attributes. We include all attributes of the object's type, or any of its supertypes, up to $start_with.

Switches:

-start_with (optional, defaults to "acs_object")

-include_storage_types (optional, defaults to "type_specific")

-datasource_name (optional, defaults to "attributes")

-object_type (optional)

-return_url (optional)

Parameters:

object_id (required)

Testcases:

No testcase defined.

translates the datatype into one that can be validated. Default datatype is text (when no validator is found)

Parameters:

datatype (required)

Author:

Michael Bryzek <mbryzek@arsdigita.com>

Created:

12/2000

Testcases:

acs_subsite_attribute_datatypes

adds the specified enumeration value to the attribute.

Parameters:

attribute_id (required)

The attribute to which we are adding

enum_value (required)

The value which we are adding to the enum

sort_order (required)

Author:

Ben Adida <ben@openforce.net>

Created:

08/2001

Testcases:

acs_subsite_attributes

deletes the specified enumeration value from the attribute. The net effect is that this attribute will have one fewer options for acceptable values.

Parameters:

attribute_id (required)

The attribute from which we are deleting

enum_value (required)

The value of we are deleting

Author:

Michael Bryzek <mbryzek@arsdigita.com>

Created:

12/2000

Testcases:

acs_subsite_attributes