get

Properties of Bloomberg Desktop connection V3

Syntax

v = get(c)

v = get(c,properties)

Description

v = get(c) returns a structure where each field name is the name of a property of the bloomberg object c, which uses the Bloomberg^® Desktop C++ interface, and each field contains the value of that property.

v = get(c,properties) returns the value of the specified properties properties for the bloomberg object.

Examples

Retrieve Bloomberg Connection Properties

Create the Bloomberg connection using the Bloomberg Desktop C++ interface.

c = bloomberg;

Retrieve the Bloomberg connection properties.

v = get(c)

v = 

  struct with fields:

      session: [1×1 datafeed.internal.BLPSession]
    ipaddress: "localhost"
         port: 8194.00

v is a structure containing the Bloomberg session object, IP address, port number, timeout value, date and time data type, and data return format.

Close the Bloomberg connection.

close(c)

Retrieve One Bloomberg Connection Property

Create the Bloomberg connection using the Bloomberg Desktop C++ interface.

c = bloomberg;

Retrieve the port number from the Bloomberg connection object by specifying 'port' as a character vector.

property = "port";
v = get(c,property)

v =

        8194

v is a double that contains the port number of the Bloomberg connection object.

Close the Bloomberg connection.

close(c)

Retrieve Two Bloomberg Connection Properties

Create the Bloomberg connection using the Bloomberg Desktop C++ interface.

c = bloomberg;

Create a cell array properties with character vectors 'session' and 'port'. Retrieve the Bloomberg session object and port number from the Bloomberg connection object.

properties = ["session" "port"];
v = get(c,properties)

v = 

  struct with fields:

    session: [1×1 datafeed.internal.BLPSession]
       port: 8194

v is a structure containing the Bloomberg session object and port number.

Close the Bloomberg connection.

close(c)

Input Arguments

c — Bloomberg connection

bloomberg object

Bloomberg connection, specified as a bloomberg object.

properties — Property names

character vector | string scalar | cell array of character vectors | string array

Property names, specified as a character vector, string scalar, cell array of character vectors, or string array containing Bloomberg connection property names. The property names are session, ipaddress, port, and timeout.

Data Types: char | cell | string

Output Arguments

v — Bloomberg connection properties

numeric scalar | character vector | object | structure

Bloomberg connection properties, returned as these data types depending on the requested properties.

Requested Properties	Data Type
Port number or timeout	Numeric scalar
IP address	Character vector
Bloomberg session	Object
All properties	Structure

Version History

Introduced in R2021a