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InformationReferenceElement Class @preview

Information Reference is an abstract base class for modeling entities whose main purpose is to reference something else.

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Methods

Name Description
constructor(props: ElementProps, iModel: IModelDb): InformationReferenceElement Protected    

Inherited methods

Name Inherited from Description
collectReferenceIds(referenceIds: EntityReferenceSet): void Protected Inherited InformationContentElement Collect the Ids of this entity's references at this level of the class hierarchy.
delete(): void Inherited InformationContentElement Delete this Element from the iModel.
forEach(func: PropertyHandler, includeCustom: boolean = true): void Inherited InformationContentElement Call a function for each property of this Entity.
forEachProperty(func: PropertyCallback, includeCustom: boolean = true): void Inherited InformationContentElement Call a function for each property of this Entity.
getClassMetaData(): undefined | EntityMetaData Inherited InformationContentElement Get the class metadata for this element.
getDisplayLabel(): string Inherited InformationContentElement Get a display label for this Element.
getJsonProperty(nameSpace: string): any Inherited InformationContentElement Get a JSON property of this element, by namespace
getMetaData(): Promise<EntityClass> Inherited InformationContentElement Query metadata for this entity class from the iModel's schema.
getReferenceIds(): EntityReferenceSet Inherited InformationContentElement Get the set of this entity's entity references, EntityReferenceSet.
getToolTipMessage(): string[] Inherited InformationContentElement Get a list of HTML strings that describe this Element for the tooltip.
getUserProperties(namespace: string): any Inherited InformationContentElement Get a set of JSON user properties by namespace
insert(): string Inherited InformationContentElement Insert this Element into the iModel.
removeUserProperties(nameSpace: string): void Inherited InformationContentElement Remove a set of JSON user properties, specified by namespace, from this Element
setJsonProperty(nameSpace: string, value: any): void Inherited InformationContentElement  
setUserProperties(nameSpace: string, value: any): void Inherited InformationContentElement Change a set of user JSON properties of this Element by namespace.
toJSON(): ElementProps Inherited InformationContentElement Obtain the JSON representation of this Entity.
update(): void Inherited InformationContentElement Update this Element in the iModel.
deserialize(props: DeserializeEntityArgs): ElementProps Static Inherited InformationContentElement Converts an ECSqlRow of an Entity to an EntityProps.
is(otherClass: Entity): boolean Static Inherited InformationContentElement return whether this Entity class is a subclass of another Entity class
onAllInputsHandled(_id: string, _iModel: IModelDb): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called on an element in a graph after all of its inputs have been processed and before its outputs are processed.
onBeforeOutputsHandled(_id: string, _iModel: IModelDb): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called when a root element in a subgraph is changed and before its outputs are processed.
onChildAdd(_arg: OnChildElementPropsArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called when an existing element is about to be updated so that an instance of this class will become its new parent.
onChildAdded(arg: OnChildElementIdArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called after an existing element has been updated so that an instance of this class is its new parent.
onChildDelete(_arg: OnChildElementIdArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called when an element with an instance of this class as its parent is about to be deleted.
onChildDeleted(arg: OnChildElementIdArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called after an element with an instance of this class as its parent was successfully deleted.
onChildDrop(_arg: OnChildElementIdArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called when an element with an instance of this class as its parent is about to be updated change to a different parent.
onChildDropped(arg: OnChildElementIdArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called after an element with an instance of this class as its previous parent was updated to have a new parent.
onChildInsert(_arg: OnChildElementPropsArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called when a new element with an instance of this class as its parent is about to be inserted.
onChildInserted(arg: OnChildElementIdArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called after a new element with an instance of this class as its parent was inserted.
onChildUpdate(_arg: OnChildElementPropsArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called when an element with an instance of this class as its parent is about to be updated.
onChildUpdated(arg: OnChildElementIdArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called after an element with an instance of this the class as its parent was updated.
onCloned(_context: IModelElementCloneContext, _sourceProps: ElementProps, _targetProps: ElementProps): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called during the iModel transformation process after an Element from the source iModel was cloned for the target iModel.
onDelete(arg: OnElementIdArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called before an Element is deleted.
onDeleted(arg: OnElementIdArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called after an Element was deleted.
onInsert(arg: OnElementPropsArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called before a new Element is inserted.
onInserted(arg: OnElementIdArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called after a new Element was inserted.
onSubModelDelete(_arg: OnSubModelIdArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called when a sub-model of an instance of this class is being deleted.
onSubModelDeleted(arg: OnSubModelIdArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called after a sub-model of an instance of this class was deleted.
onSubModelInsert(_arg: OnSubModelPropsArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called when an instance of this class is being sub-modeled by a new Model.
onSubModelInserted(arg: OnSubModelIdArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called after an instance of this class was sub-modeled by a new Model.
onUpdate(arg: OnElementPropsArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called before an Element is updated.
onUpdated(arg: OnElementIdArg): void Protected Static Inherited InformationContentElement Called after an Element was updated.
serialize(props: ElementProps, iModel: IModelDb): ECSqlRow Static Inherited InformationContentElement Converts an EntityProps to an ECSqlRow.

Properties

Name Type Description
className Accessor Static ReadOnly string The name of the BIS class associated with this class.  

Inherited properties

Name Type Inherited from Description
_customHandledProps Protected Static Readonly Inherited CustomHandledProperty[] InformationContentElement List of properties that are need to be custom handled during deserialization and serialization.
_metadata Protected Inherited EntityClass | RelationshipClass InformationContentElement Cached Metadata for the ECClass
classFullName Accessor Inherited ReadOnly string InformationContentElement Get the full BIS class name of this Entity in the form "schema:class".
classFullName Accessor Static Inherited ReadOnly string InformationContentElement Get the full BIS class name of this Entity in the form "schema:class"
className Accessor Inherited ReadOnly string InformationContentElement The name of the BIS class associated with this class.
code Inherited Code InformationContentElement The Code for this element
federationGuid Inherited string | undefined InformationContentElement A FederationGuid assigned to this element by some other federated database
id Inherited string InformationContentElement The Id of this Entity.
iModel Inherited IModelDb InformationContentElement The IModelDb that contains this Entity
isInstanceOfEntity Readonly Inherited "true" InformationContentElement An immutable property used to discriminate between Entity and EntityProps, used to inform the TypeScript compiler that these two types
jsonProperties Readonly Inherited [key: string]: any InformationContentElement Optional json properties of this element.
model Readonly Inherited string InformationContentElement The ModelId of the Model containing this element
parent Inherited RelatedElement | undefined InformationContentElement The parent element, if present, of this element.
requiredReferenceKeys Static Readonly Inherited ReadonlyArray InformationContentElement A required reference is an element that had to be inserted before this element could have been inserted.
schema Static Inherited Schema InformationContentElement The Schema that defines this class.
schemaItemKey Accessor Inherited ReadOnly SchemaItemKey InformationContentElement Get the item key used by the ecschema-metadata package to identify this entity class
schemaItemKey Accessor Static Inherited ReadOnly SchemaItemKey InformationContentElement Serves as a unique identifier for this class. Typed variant of classFullName.
schemaName Accessor Inherited ReadOnly string InformationContentElement The name of the BIS Schema that defines this class
userLabel Inherited string | undefined InformationContentElement A user-assigned label for this element.

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Last Updated: 24 October, 2025