Introduction

What is kitsune class property?

Kitsune property is a datafield that defines the type specific storage and access in kitsune tags and k-admin. Kitsune property can be defined by following meta information.

• Name : name of property
  • unique name withing the class
  • it can contain only alphanumeric and '_'(underscore)
  • it can not start with _ or number
  • Maximum length of property name is limited to 50 characters
• Description : Description of the property(will be visible to end customer in the K-Admin)
  • Can be any string
  • Limit is 100 characters
• GroupName : Property group name
  • Group multiple property of same class in to one to make it more managable in k-Admin
• PropertyType : Datatype of the field
  • Following system datatyps are available in kitsune language
    • str | string datatype
      • you can store any type of string data.
      • there is no charactor limit.
      • str datatype has in built functions (substr, length, indexof, toupper, tolower, urlnecode, split, contains, replace, decode )
    • array | iterator type
      • array of any datatype (system or custom objects)
      • array can have any number of elements
      • array datatype has in built functions (length,distinct)
    • number | numeric values
      • number can store any type of number (integer, float, long)
      • up to 64 bit memory
      • number datatype has in built functions (tostring)
    • date | date value
      • date can store datetime value
      • by default it will store datetime in UTC format
      • you can perform date comparison operation with standard format
    • boolean | boolean value (true/false)
      • boolean can store true/false
      • default value will be false
    • kstring | string with automated keyword extraction feature
      • kstring is unique datatype of the kitsune language
      • using kstring you can store string and kitsune will dynamically extract meaningful keyworeds out of the string stored.
      • keywords extracted from the kstring can be used for better search engine optimization
      • kstring datatype has two property (text and keywords). text is type of str and keywords is type of array
    • object | data instance of the class
      • object datatype is used for createing instance of any class
      • you can store data in nested format. any property can be type of user defined class.
      • using object you can create custom property with class structure
      • object can be referenced by value or by referene based on the class definition