How would I infer type prior to reading and validating value

[Mats Naslund]

For the moment I'm reading all values as strings via the .asString() but naturally I would need to obtain the right type. I was wondering is there some way in JRecord to infer the type prior to reading? And I would have to also validate the value to see if it pass/fail what is defined in the copybook.

Thanks again for your time

[Bruce Martin]

You can test the FieldValue for either wether it is numeric or binary
or test the actual type:

        AbstractFieldValue fieldValue = line.getFieldValue("Vendor-Number");
        if (fieldValue.isNumeric()) {
            if (fieldValue.getFieldDetail().getType() == Type.ftBinaryBigEndian) {

            }
        } else if (fieldValue.getFieldDetail().getType() == Type.ftChar) {

        }