where can I find description of GlideTableDescriptor

[sergsalo]

I saw the usage of this object in some posts, but wasn't able to locate any documentation on it. Can anyone provide a link that explains what this object is and methods it supports?

thanks,

Serg

[The SN Nerd]

The constructor takes a table name as an argument

var gtd = new GlideTableDescriptor('incident');

gs.print(gtd.getName());

You can also use the static method as follows

var gtd = GlideTableDescriptor.get('incident');

The list of methods are as follows. I do not know what parameters they take.

displayField

getSequenceElements

getElementDescriptor

hashCode

getED

getDisplayField

canWrite

getPrimaryKeyName

hasTextIndex

getClass

hasIndex

isRotationExtension

isValidField

getStorageName

setElements

getLastElementDescriptor

getIndexDescriptors

getPrimaryKey

getDisplayElement

hasTableTextIndex

canCreate

isUpdateSynch

equals

getName

getSchema

getLabel

canRead

wait

getPrimaryKeys

getInDatabaseSchema

close

getSchemaList

isInPrimaryKey

getActiveSchema

getAccessPolicy

getActiveFieldNames

getSizeClass

getAllElementDescriptors

isValid

getDisplayName

isUpdateSynchCustom

toString

isReadReplicaBlacklisted

getTableSchema

getMetaDataXML

notify

getAlterAccess

getDBIRaw

getDBI

notifyAll

getOwnElementDescriptors

getReferenceTo

auditWanted

getMetaDataXMLForElements

canDelete

I hope this is helpful!

[sergsalo]

thanks Paul,

to rephrase my question "how did you find this out?". I guess my problem is to navigate around API and documentation. Some things are easy to find and they are explained in wiki, developer portal. Others, like GlideTableDescriptor, have no documentation about them (only can be found in some blog posts) though people are using it. I tried to search sys_script_include for the definition of GlideTableDescriptor but didn't find it.

[The SN Nerd]

It is a Java class and is not available as a script include.

I wrote a function to loop through every function for the object and print it out.

var obj = new GlideTableDescriptor('incident');

var result = [];

for (var id in obj) {

   try {

   if (typeof(obj[id]) == "function") {

   result.push( id );

   }

   } catch (err) {

   result.push(id + ": inaccessible");

   }

}

gs.print(result);

[The SN Nerd]

I should update this.

Tools like Xplore make it easy to find out.

All you need to do is this

new GlideTableDescriptor('incident');   

And you get this output: