Collection Text Representation

The DataBlade API supports a collection in text representation as a quoted string with the following format:

"coll_type{elmnt_value, elmnt_value, ...}"

coll_type

is the type of the collection: SET, MULTISET, or LIST.

elmnt_value

is the text representation of the element value.

A collection in its text representation is often called a collection string. For example, the following collection string provides the text representation for a SET of integer values:

"SET{1, 6, 8, 3}"

For a complete description of the text representation of a collection, see the description of the Literal Collection segment in the IBM Informix: Guide to SQL Syntax.