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Datatable Column Hint

This is a type used in Stencila Schema for providing a concise summary of the properties of a DatatableColumn.

It exists to support both human and machine understanding of tabular columns, including schema inference, editing assistance, and code generation workflows such as selecting visual encodings based on column types. Rather than making observations into hard constraints, it summarizes inferred type, value range, and other characteristics of the column.

Key properties describe inferred value kinds, ranges, and representative examples.

Properties

The DatatableColumnHint type has these properties:

NameDescriptionTypeInherited from
nameThe name of the column.String-
itemTypeThe type of items in the column.String-
minimumThe minimum value in the column.Primitive-
maximumThe maximum value in the column.Primitive-
nullsThe number of Null values in the column.Integer-
idThe identifier for this item.StringEntity

Related

The DatatableColumnHint type is related to these types:

Bindings

The DatatableColumnHint type is represented in:


This documentation was generated from DatatableColumnHint.yaml by docs_types.rs.

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