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How to Configure the Default Value for a Data Table Column

As data objects are being saved or updated with the API requests some properties of the objects may not have a value assigned to them. It may be necessary that for those properties a default value is assigned. This is identical to how relational databases may have a default value for a column.

by Mark Piller on September 1, 2019

How to Validate Data Object Properties With Regular Expressions

When saving or updating a data object in a persistent storage, it is often necessary to make sure a property follows a particular data format. For instance, properties like email address, a US phone number, a bank account number, a URL and many others may be validated with regex (a regular expression). Backendless makes it…

by Mark Piller on September 1, 2019

How to Create Relationships Between Data Objects and Geopoints

In another post, we described how to declare a relationship in a data table schema with a geopoint. Now that you know how to create a table column that contains one or more geopoints, we are going to show how to populate it with data.

by Mark Piller on September 1, 2019

How to Assign Column Types During Data Import

In another post, we described a feature where you can import data to Backendless using CSV files. In that post, we used CSV files that already had the data type defined for each column.

by Mark Piller on September 1, 2019

How to Display Dates in Data Objects in the GMT0 Timezone

If a data table in your application has a column of the DATETIME type, the values for that column will be rendered by Backendless Console in mm/dd/yyyy hh:mm:ss format. For many applications, and specifically in some industries like telecommunications or finance, it is important to see the date objects in a “neutral” format and often…

by Mark Piller on September 1, 2019

How to Define a Data Table Schema in Backendless Console

In a previous feature, we described how to manually create data tables in Backendless Console. In this post, we will show how to set up a data table schema.

by Mark Piller on September 1, 2019

How to Create Data Tables Using Backendless Console

The article that shows how to store objects in Backendless also demonstrated dynamic data table creation. That approach is called “code first” – where the code dictates the database schema.

by Mark Piller on September 1, 2019

How to Use REST Console to Delete Objects

Backendless REST Console is a tool capable of driving REST queries against Data Service. It is useful when you need to validate a REST command or for testing and diagnostics purposes. REST Console is available in a dedicated tab on the Data screen of Backendless Console.

by Mark Piller on September 1, 2019
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