IMetabase.FetchItem

Syntax

FetchItem(Key: Integer; [Options: Integer = 0]): IMetabaseObjectDescriptor;

Parameters

Key. Internal object key.

Options. Settings of the deferred loading of descriptions type by identifiers.

Description

The FetchItem method returns the description of the object or the object, for which the deferred loading of the description attribute is set by the key.

Comments

The example of the object with the deferred loading of the description is the internal model of the metamodel calculation chain. The example of internal model creation is given in description of theIMsCalculationChainEntries.AddExclusiveModel.

The type of linked objects which require to download the description is specified in the Options parameter. If the memory of the computer contains cached descriptions then the method will load them.

If the repository uses the deferred loading of descriptions, then on executing the method the description of the object will be cached in memory. On the following requests the description will be taken from the cache of the Computer. However for the objects for which the IMetabaseObjectDescriptor.IsDeferred attribute is set, the descriptions will not be cached. Working with these objects will be performed by the Fetch* methods.

Example

Executing the example requires that the repository contains an internal object with the 123 key.

Add a link to the Metabase system assembly.

Sub UserProc;
Var
    MB: IMetabase;
    ObjDesc: IMetabaseObjectDescriptor;
Begin
    MB:= MetabaseClass.Active;
    ObjDesc:= MB.FetchItem(123);
    Debug.WriteLine (ObjDesc.Name);
End Sub UserProc;

After executing the example the inner object name is displayed into development environment console.