Supported Data Types

No matter what client you use to make a REST API call, both the sent request and delivered response are in JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). The following table lists the data types for resource attributes in our REST APIs. These are generic data types supported for REST resources, and are not specific to SCIM resources.

Data Type	Description
string	Any sequence of characters added between double quotes. Similar to a C or Java string. Example: {"name":"Andrew"}
date	A string value conforming to the ISO 8601 format. For example, the data type for DateValidated is string (date).
datetime	A string value conforming to the ISO 8601 format. For example, the data type for LastUpdateDate is string (date-time).
boolean	A value that must be either true or false.
number	A numeric value represented in base 10 with no extra leading zero. It includes digits between 0 and 9, can be negative, a fraction, or an exponent of 10 prefixed by e. The value doesn't include the octal and hexadecimal formats.
integer	A number without a fraction part or an exponent part.
null	No value to assign.
object	An unordered set of name and value pairs. A name is a string, and a value can be a string, a number, a Boolean, a null, an object, or an array data type.
array	An ordered collection of values, beginning with a [ (left bracket), ending with an ] (right bracket), and including values separated by commas. Example: {"contacts":[ "John", "Anna", "Peter" ]}
long text	A string representation of a character large object (CLOB) when returned inline with other attributes.

For additional information about JSON data types, see https://www.json.org/json-en.html.