function entity_property_extract_innermost_type in Entity API 7

Extracts the innermost type for a type string like list<list<date>>.

Parameters

$type: The type to examine.

Return value

string For list types, the innermost type. The type itself otherwise.

2 calls to entity_property_extract_innermost_type()

entity_views_field_definition in views/entity.views.inc

Helper function for adding a Views field definition to data selection based Views tables.

entity_views_handler_field_entity::init in views/handlers/entity_views_handler_field_entity.inc

Initialize the entity type with the field's entity type.

File

includes/entity.property.inc, line 374

Provides API functions around hook_entity_property_info(). Also see entity.info.inc, which cares for providing entity property info for all core entity types.

Code

function entity_property_extract_innermost_type($type) {
  while (strpos($type, 'list<') === 0 && $type[strlen($type) - 1] == '>') {
    $type = substr($type, 5, -1);
  }
  return $type;
}