Casting

Casting refers to bypassing of the type validation and assigning data types that aren’t necessarily compatible.

For example, you may want to assign an integer value to a string. In such cases, you can use a conversion operation like the following one:

<conversionTypeName> ( <valueToConvert> )

where:

conversionTypeName is the data type you want to assign to a value.

Here are some examples of casting or conversion operations:

• string(myIntDO)

• int(myStringDO)

• duration(myStringDO)

Note:

You can only cast to primitive data types. Therefore, the conversionTypeName variable accepts only primitive types as valid values.

WARNING:

Assigning values that are incompatible results in runtime errors. Even though some preliminary checks are performed on conversions to prevent incompatible castings (for example, a conversion from 'Boolean' to 'date'), all conversions are generally considered unsafe because there’s no extra processing performed when applying them.