JAVA/CORBA CLASSES

Working with custom data
You can store data of your own format in items. Use the following methods in the Document and Item classes:
DocumentItemDescription
getItemValueCustomDatagetValueCustomDataGets custom data in the form of an object.
getItemValueCustomDataBytesgetValueCustomDataBytesGets custom data in the form of a byte array.
replaceItemValueCustomDatasetValueCustomDataWrites custom data in the form of an object.
replaceItemValueCustomDataBytessetValueCustomDataBytesWrites custom data in the form of a byte array.
An item that contains custom data is of type Item.USERDATA (14).

If you store data using an object, do not change the defining class.

If you plan on working with custom data through another interface, such as LotusScript, use the byte array methods.

Note In Release 6, custom data was added for Java. In Release 6.5, custom data was added for CORBA, LotusScript, and COM. LotusScript and COM support only the byte array methods.

When you store data, you can specify a data type name that must be supplied when you get the data.

Domino Objects cannot be stored as custom data.

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