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API data types

The following primitive data types are used by the MFT FS REST Services API:

  • String: Sequence of characters in UTF-8 encoding. Empty string is used to represent a non-initialized string value
  • Integer: 32-bit integer number. Empty value indicates NULL-value
  • Long: 64-bit integer number. Empty value indicates NULL-value
  • Boolean: Boolean value. Possible values: True, False. Empty value indicates NULL-value
  • DateTime: Represents an instant in time, expressed as a date and time of day.
    In MFT FS REST services API, Empty value indicates NULL-value.

DateTime is represented as a JSON string in the following format /Date(ticks)/, where ticks represents the number of milliseconds since January 1, 1970 in Universal Coordinated Time (UTC).

For Example: /Date(1337174868623)/.