RETURN-VALUE-DATA-TYPE attribute

When you dynamically invoke a user-defined function, get an attribute, or run a method, RETURN-VALUE-DATA-TYPE lets you do one of the following to the return value:

• Detect its data type
• Cause it to be converted to a different data type

If you set RETURN-VALUE-DATA-TYPE to a data type other than the expected data type before executing the dynamic invoke, the value returned is automatically converted to that data type. Otherwise, when the dynamic invoke returns, RETURN-VALUE-DATA-TYPE indicates the data type of the value returned.

Data type: CHARACTER

Access: Readable/Writable

Applies to: Call object handle

Syntax

RETURN-VALUE-DATA-TYPE [ = datatype ]

datatype

A character expression equal to one of the following:

• "CHARACTER"
• "DATE"
• "DATETIME"
• "DATETIME-TZ"
• "DECIMAL"
• "HANDLE"
• "INT64"
• "INTEGER"
• "LOGICAL"
• "RAW"
• Unknown value (?)

The default is the Unknown value (?).