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