For Babelfish Release 1.11.1.3

Definition Class

Definition

Constructors

Definition Public constructor for Definition class.

Properties

Comment Internal documentation comments. All text is ignored by the system.
CommonName A human readable short name for this Definition. If no specific value is given, then the ProperName portion of the SetName is returned instead.
Deprecated If true, the major version of this Definition will be marked Discontinued in the future.

The author should put in .Comments additional information on when it will be deprecated.


(Inherited from SparseDefinition)
Description A human readable description of this Definition. May be verbose.
Discipline The high level shooting discipline that uses this Definition.
Discontinued If true, the major version of this Definition is no longer in use and should not be referenced. Other major versions of this same Definition may still be in use (e.g. v1.0 vs v2.0).
(Inherited from SparseDefinition)
HierarchicalName HierarchicalName is namespace:properName
JSONVersion The Version string of the JSON document.
ModifiedAt The date and time this definition version was uploaded to the Rest API.
(Inherited from SparseDefinition)
Owner The Orion license account number of who owns, and is responsible for, this desciption. There is often a one to one relationship between the Owner and namespace of a Definition.
SetName A SetName is a unique identifier for a Defintion file within a definition type. It has three parts, the version number, namespace, and propername.
(Inherited from SparseDefinition)
SpecificationMessages 
Subdiscipline The subdiscipline (under the value of Discipline) to categorize this Definition. The value of a "Subdiscipline" field may be any text string. However, there is a list of common subdisciplines and tags that should be used as appropriate.
Tags The tag or tags to categorize this Definition with. The value of a "Tags" field may be any text string. However, there is a list of common subdisciplines and tags that should be used as appropriate.
Type The Definition Type
(Inherited from SparseDefinition)
Version The precise version number of this Definition. Note, the version number listed in the SetName is often a reference to either the latest Major release. Version always provides both the Major and Minor release numbers and is not a reference.
(Inherited from SparseDefinition)

Methods

ConvertValues Method to set default values on a new Definition. Implementation specific for each definition type.
EqualsDetermines whether the specified object is equal to the current object.
(Inherited from Object)
FinalizeAllows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection.
(Inherited from Object)
GetDefinitionVersion Returns the Version of the Definition as an object DefinitionVersion. the string varation is returned with the property .Version
(Inherited from SparseDefinition)
GetFileName Returns the file name for this Definition. It should be stored in a directory named after the definition type.
GetHashCodeServes as the default hash function.
(Inherited from Object)
GetHierarchicalName Returns the value of .HierarchicalName as an HierarchicalName object.
GetMeetsSpecificationAsync 
GetRelativePath Definitions, by commonality, are saved to file system in a standard relative directory structure. This method returns that standard relative path.
GetSetName Returns a SetName object based on the Definitions Version and HierrchcialName If originalSetName is true, returns the setname as was loaded, usually with v1.0, or v0.0 If false, returns the Version based on the version in the file
GetTypeGets the Type of the current instance.
(Inherited from Object)
IsVersionUpdateAvaliableAsync Checks to see if there is a newer minor version of the Definition file avaliable through the Rest API
MemberwiseCloneCreates a shallow copy of the current Object.
(Inherited from Object)
SaveToFile(DirectoryInfo) Helper method to save the Definition file to local storage.

Will save the definition file under [definitionDirectory]/DEFINITIONS/[Definition Type]/[SetName].json

SaveToFile(FileInfo) Helper method to save the Definition to file
SerializeToJson Returns this Definition as a json serialized string.
SetDefaultValues Method to set default values on a new Definition. Implementation specific for each definition type.
ToStringReturns a string that represents the current object.
(Inherited from SparseDefinition)

See Also