Property Type Development

The topics in this chapter will walk you through writing and designing property types. Needing to design a property type is common when a project starts and becomes less common when an established set of property types already exists (because the likelihood that a property type already exists for your property increases).

We continue the electric field example started in the modules chapter, here focusing on how we designed the ElectricField property type. For simplicity we assume that electric fields arise soley from a collection of point charges and that users only ever want the value of the electric field at a single point. In a production quality code those are unlikely to be valid assumptions, but they suffice for our present purposes.

Contents:

• Basics of Writing a Property Type
  • Declaring A Property Type
  • Defining a Property Type
  • Summary
• Advanced Property Type Development
  • Property Type Inheritence
  • Templated Property Types