Filter - Teradata Meta Data Services

Filter

The CMetaFilterInfo class contains an attribute called Filter which is an object of the CMetaProperty class:

CMetaProperty     Filter

The Filter object contains the:

Relative Property ID or Name of the property on which to perform the search. This can be any of the object’s Common Properties or Unique Properties defined for the class.

Search value.

The id is set using the CMetaProperty::SetPropertyID function. The name is set using the CMetaProperty::SetName function. For example:

CMetaFilterInfo filterInfo;

	filterInfo.Initialize();

	filterInfo.Filter.SetPropertyID(3);

The search value is set using a CMetaProperty::Setxxx function such as SetString, SetInt, SetShort, SetBinary, and so on. For example:

filterInfo.Filter.SetString(_TEXT("FOO"));

To search on unique properties of a class, you must specify the relative property id or property name specified for the Property Description in the Model.