Checks the given name and throws an exception if the name is not valid.

Creates a FieldValue instance, with the same name and type as this field declaration.

Creates a new instance that is a deep copy of this instance.

Determines whether this instance of Field and a specified object, which must also be a Field object, represent the same field declaration including the picklist according to type.

Determines whether this instance of Field and a specified object, which must also be a Field object, represent the same field declaration, not considering the picklist.

Allows an object to try to free resources and perform other cleanup operations before it is reclaimed by garbage collection.

Determine the field type, given the field name.

Gets the Type of the current instance.

Determines whether the name is reserved for a pseudo (non-physical) field.

Determines whether the name is reserved for system purposes.

Determines whether the specified name is reserved for a system (predefined) field.

Determines whether a specified string can be used as a field name.

All field names are valid if they don't start or end with whitespace.

Looks up a special field by its name. Special fields are fields with a predefined name, which may be "virtual" fields (those computed from data at runtime) or "physical" fields (which have an actual value in the data storage). Special field names should not be used for user-defined fields. Note that special fields are a superset of system fields (i.e. not all special fields are system fields).

Creates a shallow copy of the current Object.

Removes those characters from an input string which are not allowed in field names, and returns the form that will be accepted as a field name identifier. This method should only be used when fields are automatically added by some process (e.g. by importing a TMX file) and that process should be robust and continue despite invalid field names.

Returns a string that represents the current object.