Internal Object Methods

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Internal Object Methods

For each ActiveX value object that you implement, a set of internal methods is created. Although these methods are not made available to the client application developer as ActiveX custom methods, you can use them when you add project-specific logic to your client and server projects.

These are the internal object methods, where Opaque is the name of the opaque type that defines the current object.

Method	Description
static OpaqueCommon * CreateNew()	Creates an instance of the current object. The object name is OpaqueServer if called by server code or OpaqueClient if called by client code.
void DkErrorRaise(MI_CONNECTION conn, mi_integer msg_type, char msg, ...)	Maps to mi_db_error_raise on the server and raises an error on the client; for details, see the IBM Informix: DataBlade API Programmer's Guide.
OpaqueStruct * GetData()	Returns a pointer to the data structure representing the current object.
mi_boolean IsDirty()	Returns mi_true if the current object has been modified or mi_false if it has not.
OpaqueStruct * RawCopy()	Allocates a C data structure and fills it with a copy of the raw data of the current object.
void SetClean()	Flags the current object as having not been modified.
void SetData(const OpaqueStruct *value)	Fills the current object with the data supplied by the input data structure.
void SetDirty()	Flags the current object as having been modified.
void SetNotNull()	A protected method that sets the current object to not null.