category.source.type.underlyingType

[rdegr]

I can't find a lookup for the values in this field, can anyone point me in the right direction?  Thanks!

[v-viig]

Not sure if understand the issue well. Do you want to detect column type?

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

[rdegr]

Yes, exactly.  This has numeric codes, I'd like to know what they map to.

[v-viig]

To detect column type please use metadata.type.numeric

Ignat Vilesov,

Software Engineer

Microsoft Power BI Custom Visuals

pbicvsupport@microsoft.com

[rdegr]

Other parts of the API appear to distinguish "double" from "decimal".  So that "valueEncoded" for a numeric might be digits followed by an M or a D (or L for integer).  How to distinguish "double" from "decimal"?

[rdegr]

As seen here in the PrimitiveValueEncoding class https://github.com/deldersveld/PowerBI-visuals/blob/master/src/Clients/VisualsData/semanticQuery/pri...

[jppp · Accepted solution]

The `category.source.type` has to values that determine the real type if you are really interested: the `primitaveType` and the `extendedType`.

Both are enums and a pretty accurate definition is available at:

https://github.com/avontd2868/PowerBI-visuals/blob/c0278829a474f2b3f4dec1c8f0adb41fc4814fbf/src/Clie...

https://github.com/avontd2868/PowerBI-visuals/blob/c0278829a474f2b3f4dec1c8f0adb41fc4814fbf/src/Clie...

In case of the screenshot Ignat: the primitiveType is 3 (`Double`) and extendedType 259 (`Double`).

And to determine the difference between a `Double` and `Decimal` is the extendedType property: `259` vs `258`

-JP