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== Description ==
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This field represents an integer whose value may be too big to to store in a standard database integer field.
  
 
== Inheritance ==
 
== Inheritance ==
 
 
* [[Metadata]]
 
* [[Metadata]]
 
** [[Int field]]
 
** [[Int field]]
 
*** [[Bigint field]]
 
*** [[Bigint field]]
 
== Description ==
 
This field represents an integer whose value may be too big to to store in a standard database integer field.
 
  
 
== Properties ==
 
== Properties ==
 
 
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== Database ==
 
== Database ==
 
 
Counter fields are stored in the database as
 
Counter fields are stored in the database as
  
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== API ==
 
== API ==
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See [[API:EPrints/MetaField/Bigint|API page]].
  
 
== Examples ==
 
== Examples ==

Revision as of 08:15, 21 March 2023

EPrints 3 Reference: Directory Structure - Metadata Fields - Repository Configuration - XML Config Files - XML Export Format - EPrints data structure - Core API - Data Objects


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 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,
}