Bigint field
EPrints 3 Reference: Directory Structure - Metadata Fields - Repository Configuration - XML Config Files - XML Export Format - EPrints data structure - Core API - Data Objects
Metadata Fields: Base64 - Bigint - Boolean - Compound - Counter - Date - Email - Float - Id - Idci - Int - Itemref - Keywords - Longtext - Longtext_counter - Multilang - Name - Namedset - Pagerange - Recaptcha - Set - Subject - Text - Time - Timestamp - Url
Description
This field represents an integer whose value may be too big to to store in a standard database integer field.
Inheritance
Properties
name | default | description |
digits | n/a | This property is taken from the repository configuration. |
Required Phrases
No additional phrases.
Database
Counter fields are stored in the database as
fieldname BIGINT(20)
API
See API page.
Examples
A basic example.
{ name => 'population', type => 'bigint', }
Restrict number of digits can be added to this field in the wokflow.
{ name => 'hesa_id', type => 'bigint', digits => 13, }