getAttribute

Fetches the value of an attribute (extra field) for a given object type and ID. This method returns string values; for attributes of type INTEGER use getAttributeInteger and for NUMBER attributes use getAttributeNumber.

Arguments

Name	Type	Description
skey	string
object_type	string	The object type; see getAttributeObjectTypes to determine usable values.
object_id	string	The ID of the object to get the attribute value from.
id_attr_type	string	The ID of the attribute type.

Return

The getAttribute method returns the attribute value (a string).

Exceptions

The getAttribute method may report the following exceptions:

RuntimeError if the object type is not valid
ValueError if either the object or the attribute type do not exist