damex_describeVal
- Last Updated: May 12, 2026
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- OpenAccess SDK
- Version 8.1
- Documentation
This method retrieves the description of the value.
Object damex_describeVal(
int64 hVal,
out int piType,
out int piXoType,
out int piValLen,
out int64 phCol,
out int64 phquery)
Parameters for damex_describeVal
| Parameter | Type | Description |
| IN | ||
| hVal | int64 | The value handle. |
| OUT | ||
| piType | int | The type of the value, which will be one of the following: |
| piXoType | int | The data type of the literal value. The value is contained in the Object returned by this method. |
| piValLen | int | The length of the value |
| phCol | int64 | The handle to the column value. Use damex_describeCol to get more details. |
| phQuery | int64 | The handle to the query value. Use dam_getQueryFirstResultValue and dam_getQueryNextResultValue to get the values returned from the subquery. |
| piValStatus | int | Status of the method call:DAM_SUCCESS – on successDAM_FAILURE – on failure |
| RETURN | ||
| Object | If piType is SQL_VAL_LITERAL, then an Object that represents the value of the literal. The format of the data depends on the type of the literal. See Table 34. |