[teiid-designer-dev] A new datatype

[Barry Lafond]

Steve, 

To be honest we haven't touched the built-in data-type definitions for probably more than 5-6 years and I wasn't in charge of them back then. 

So there's a learning curve I have to jump on. 

Designer's ".sdt" plugin contains both a built-in data-types .xsd & .xmi files. Not sure yet how they are related and if both are used. The XMI file does contain UUID's from the XSD file, or it could be vice-versa. 

So as a minimum you are correct, adding the "varbinary" type to builtin-types.xsd is the place to start. 

And I don't know the answer to "do we index enterprise datatype information on a per vdb basis? 

Barry 

----- Original Message -----

> From: "Steven Hawkins" <shawkins at redhat.com>
> To: "teiid-designer-dev" <teiid-designer-dev at lists.jboss.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 18, 2012 11:00:12 AM
> Subject: Re: [teiid-designer-dev] A new datatype

> A follow-up question. The datatypes index we use in the system vdb
> looks like it was generated from the builtin-types.xsd. To add a new
> type, do I need to modify that xsd and in what version of designer
> would I then generate the appropriate index file? Related to that,
> do we index enterprise datatype information on a per vdb basis?

> ----- Original Message -----
> > Hello all,
> >
> > What would be the impact in designer for adding a new type?
> > https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIID-1834 could be achieved by
> > adding a varbinary type. At the very least on the teiid side we'd
> > update the DatatypeManager, the system vdb, and our type logic. But
> > I'm not clear what impact there would be design time. Based upon
> > the ease/difficulty of this we'll also be able to evaluate when it
> > makes sense to add array type handling.
> >
> > Steve
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