Execute a Special Method

Special methods supplement the DataBasic language to provide additional functionality specific to object orientated languages. Special methods always start with a % character to uniquely identify them from a language object method.

In general special methods require an object to operate on (the only exception is %CONNECT). However most special methods can use the default connection object (created by the first %CONNECT statement).

Special method names are case insensitive.

Syntax

{Object->} %method()

{Object->} %method(key {,ParameterList})

Syntax elements

Object	DBO variable name
method	The object method name that is to be executed.
->	The object operator.
ParameterList	One or more expressions, separated by commas, representing actual values to be passed into the method.

Comments

As calling a method is syntactically an expression, the method result can be used in place of a single element within a DataBasic statement.

Examples

Obj = Con -> %New(String, "My String")

Create a new string object on connection Con and assign a reference to Obj

Obj = %New(String, "My String")

Create a new string object on the default connection and assign a reference to Obj

Con -> %import(java.io)

Add java.io.* to the list of imports on the connection Con

%import(java.io)

As above but for the default connection.