Datafeed Toolbox

Retrieving Connection Properties

To retrieve the properties of a connection object, use the command get. This command returns different values depending upon which data server is being used.

Example: Retrieving Bloomberg Connection Properties

For the Bloomberg connection

c = bloomberg(8194, '123.456.54.123')

the command

p = get(c)

returns the list of all valid connection properties and their values associated with the connection object c.

p = 
    connection: 84554360
     ipaddress: '123.456.54.123'
          port: 8194
        socket: 248
       version: 1.8000

The get command can return specific properties of a connection object. For example, to obtain the port number and Bloomberg version for the connection object c, use the command

p = get(c,{'Port';'Version'})

which returns

p = 
       port: 8194
    version: 1.8000

When returning a single property, for example, the connection handle, the command

p = get(c,'Connection')

returns

p =
    84554360

For a single returned property the output is not a structure.

Verifying the Connection

Disconnecting from a Data Server