Interface IDbTypeResolver

Namespace

Npgsql.Internal

Assembly

Npgsql.dll

An Npgsql resolver for DbType. Used by Npgsql to resolve a DbType to DataTypeName and back.

[Experimental("NPG9003")]
public interface IDbTypeResolver

Methods

GetDataTypeName(DbType, Type?)

Attempts to resolve a DbType to a data type name.

string? GetDataTypeName(DbType dbType, Type? type)

Parameters

dbType DbType

The DbType name to resolve.

type Type

The type of the value to resolve a data type name for.

Returns

string

The data type name if it could be mapped, the name can be non-normalized and without schema.

GetDbType(DataTypeName)

Attempts to resolve a data type name to a DbType.

DbType? GetDbType(DataTypeName dataTypeName)

Parameters

dataTypeName DataTypeName

The data type name to map, in a normalized form but possibly without schema.

Returns

DbType?

The DbType if it could be mapped, null otherwise.