Data Objects

Both PageHeader and PageBody are "wrappers" on underlying Maps that hold datatypes of various types, keyed by field names (Strings). The valid field names for a service are described in the service meta info file (an xml document). Null values are not allowed; use empty strings to represent missing values (e.g. for null date).

Note that most system datatypes are represented in these Java objects as simple Strings. Note the following:

• Booleans are represented by the Java Boolean class
• Date values are represented as Strings in the format YYYY-MM-DD
• Date/Time values are represented as Strings in the format YYYY-MM-DD-HH:MM:SS
• Time values are represented as Strings in the format HH:MM:SS
• BigInteger values are represented as Java BigInteger values
• BigDecimal and Money values are represented as Java BigDecimal values, with the appropriate scale.