What is the purpose of TextCFType over StringCFType?

Robert Massaioli _Atlassian_
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February 7, 2012

I am extending another plugin with custom fields and I am trying to just stick a bunch of 256 character hashes into each issue. Looking in the docs I see that StringCFType seems to be the most appropriate to me but the person that previously worked on this project also has another custom field that uses TextCFType instead. I am wondering which one is more appropriate for my purpose and, in general, what problems each was meant to solve. Thankyou for your time.

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Robert Massaioli _Atlassian_
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February 8, 2012

I discovered the primary difference. StringCFType is abstract and TextCFType is not. You need to use TextCFType if you actually want to put anything into your custom field.

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