iTP Active Transaction Pages (iTP ATP) Programmer's Guide

ATP Objects, Properties, and Methods

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atp.buffer Object

field

This parameter is an atp.field object (which is a property of an

atp.dictionary object, usually generated as a result of a field object

hierarchy). The field indicates the data type, the offset within the application-

message buffer, and other information needed to convert and place the data item.

subscript1, ...

Up to seven numeric subscripts are supported; each subscript represents an array

dimension. The value of any subscript starts at zero (0).

return = getBinary (field, subscript1, subscript2, ...)

This method retrieves data from the application-message buffer. The

getBinary() method differs from the getData() method in that the data is

retrieved byte by byte; that is, no data conversion is performed.

return

The value of the data item from the application message is returned in string

format regardless of the application data type (and might contain nonprintable

characters.)