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Enumeration type field converted to String type in consumed Odata service

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I consumed odata service and table has enum type attribute. After dragging entity from exposed service, the attribute type changed to string. In published app In consumed app

asked 2022-10-14

Shikha Basra

2 answers

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Hi Shikha,

It’s a common scenario, That Mendix while consuming considers some of the of external entity as different data type. Mendix is not smart enough to consume every attribute as they were in external system. Since all of them come either as integer/decimal or string, Mendix considers the enum as string, same goes for Autonumber also, mendix considers AutoNumber as Int.

Hope it helps!

answered 2022-10-14

Rishabh Shandilya

Andrej Koelewijn · Accepted Answer · 2022-10-14

Yes, unfortunately we haven’t implemented that yet. Good news is that is part of our roadmap, so expect it to be added in one of the future releases.

For now the string value enables you to display the enumeration field, and users can even edit it by changing the string, but you can’t yet provide a selector showing all options in the enumeration.