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Use this function to cast a value to another type avoiding run-time conflicts in assignments. E.g. from INTEGER (result of ) to xpxDateTimeto xpxDateTime and back, from Instance or aggregate Id to INTEGER and back, LOGICAL to BOOLEAN, REAL to INTEGER, INTEGER to STRING, etc. See also specialized functions like xpfIntegerToInstanceId, xpfIntegerToAggregateId, xpfStringToInteger, etc.

Arguments

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TypeNameComment
GENERICvaluecomments
INTEGERnewDatatype

 predefined constants that used to specify a required result primitive datatype:

xpxDateTime, xpxInteger, xpxString, xpxBoolean, xpxLogical, xpxInstance, xpxAggregate etc.

Return Value

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TypeNameComment
GENERICcastedValuecomments

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