How to determine application global property data type

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have developed a J2EE applicaion, which is using application parameters defined in the file sap.application.global.properties, When editing the parameters using Visual Admin I could see that the data type of all the parameters is string,

Is there any way to define sap.application.global.properties file with other data types e.g. boolean?

Thanks

[Former Member]

I don't know if you can define different property types - why not just convert or cast the values into the requisite types in your calling applications?

[Former Member]

Because the user could enter wrong values e.g. enter value different from true/false to a boolean.

it means that i have to check te correctness of every parameter in my application

[former_member194198]

The thread is long dead but I've just found this via google and noticed Gareth had posted and I now know the answer.

Check this page out. It covers the metadata needed to type your application properties.

https://cw.sdn.sap.com/cw/docs/DOC-105758

Cheers

Richard