Bigint field

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Metadata Fields: Arclanguage - Base64 - Bigint - Boolean - Compound - Counter - Dataobjref - Date - Decimal - Email - Fields - Float - Id - Idci - Image - Int - Itemref - Keywords - Langid - Longtext - Longtext_counter - Multilang - Multipart - Name - Namedset - Pagerange - Recaptcha - Relation - Search - Secret - Set - Storable - Subject - Subobject - Text - Time - Timestamp - Url - Uuid

Description

This field represents an integer whose value may be too big to store (i.e. greater than 2,147,483,647 or less than -2,147,483.647) in a standard database Int field.

Inheritance

• Metadata
  • Int field
    • Bigint field

Additional Properties

As for Int fields except for

Name	Default Value	Required	Description	Notes
digits	18	NO	The maximum number of digits for the big integer value.	Different from Int field default (9). Analogous to maxlength. Database BIGINT(20) cannot reliably store numbers that takes up more than 18 digits (including a sign if negative).

Required Phrases

No additional phrases beyond those required for Int fields.

Database

Bigint 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,
}