Type coercion
This document describes how Make behaves in situations when it receives values in expected and unexpected data formats.
When array is expected:
Received | Description |
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array | The value is handed over unchanged. |
other | If the received value is not of the array type, Make will create an array and the first (and the only) element will be the received value. |
When Boolean is expected:
Received | Description |
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boolean | The value is handed over unchanged. |
number | The value is converted to logical |
text | If the value is equal to |
other | The value is converted to logical |
When Buffer is expected:
Received | Description |
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buffer | The value is handed over unchanged only if the codepage is as expected. If the |
boolean | The value is converted to text ( |
date | The value is converted to ISO 8601 text and then to binary data following the steps mentioned for converting to text. |
number | The value is converted to text and then to binary data following the steps mentioned above for converting to text. |
text | The value is converted to binary data and encoded as expected. If the expected encoding is not specified, |
other | Make returns a validation error. |
When Collection is expected:
Received | Description |
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collection | The value is handed over unchanged. |
other | Make returns a validation error. |
When Date is expected:
Received | Description |
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date | The value is handed over unchanged. |
text | Make will try to convert the text to a date. If the conversion fails, it will return a validation error. Date must contain day, month and year. Date may contain time and time zone. Default time zone is based on your settings. See these examples. |
number | Make will treat the number as milliseconds since Jan 01 1970 (UTC) and convert it to a corresponding date. |
other | Make returns a validation error. |
When Number is expected:
Received | Description |
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number | The value is handed over unchanged. |
text | Make will try to convert the text to a number. If the conversion fails, it will return a validation error. |
other | Make returns a validation error. |
When Text is expected:
Received | Description |
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text | The value is handed over unchanged. |
array | If the given array supports conversion to text, the value will be converted. If not, Make will return a validation error. |
boolean | The value is converted to text ( |
buffer | If text encoding is specified for binary data, the value will be converted to text. If not, Make will return a validation error |
date | The value is converted to ISO 8601 text. |
number | The value is converted to text. |
other | Make returns a validation error. |
When Time is expected:
Received | Description |
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time | The value is handed over unchanged. |
text | Make will try to convert time to the hours:minutes:seconds format. If the conversion fails, it will return a validation error. |
other | Make returns a validation error. |