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String Hint

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

It exists to support both human and machine understanding of textual data, including schema inference, editing assistance, and downstream code generation. Rather than turning observations into hard constraints, it summarizes characteristics that can help tools and readers work with string values.

Key properties describe expected patterns, length characteristics, and representative values.

Properties

The StringHint type has these properties:

NameDescriptionTypeInherited from
charsThe number of characters in the string.Integer-
idThe identifier for this item.StringEntity

Related

The StringHint type is related to these types:

Bindings

The StringHint type is represented in:


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

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