mynt

module function · N/dataset

describe()

dataset.describe(options)

Retrieves descriptive information about a dataset, including name, description, and a list of columns or formulas with their labels and types.

Implementation
Not started
Design
Open for proposals suggest how it should read
Proposals
A suitescript api
Signature
dataset.describe(options)
Module
N/dataset
Returns
Object[]
Governance
10 units
Script types
Server scripts
Version
SuiteScript 2.x, documented for 2.1; since NetSuite 2021.2
call shapefrom Oracle's parameter table
1dataset.describe({2    id: /* string, required */3});
Oracle reference for this method
ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
options.idstringrequiredThe ID of the dataset to describe.
B mynt syntax

No Mynt syntax yet.

Nothing in the language compiles to dataset.describe(options) today. How should it read?

C community proposals

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D suggest an alternative

Write the Mynt you wish you could write.

A good proposal shows the syntax, the SuiteScript it should become, and argues for it: why it is clearer, how it fits the rest of the language, what it makes harder.

  • Clarity. Does it say what happens, without ceremony?
  • Consistency. Does it read like load, save and Ref[field]?
  • Expressiveness. Does it cover the cases people actually write?
  • Honesty. Does it hide a NetSuite cost, such as governance, that a reader should see?

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