The following data types are used throughout the Squirro platform. |
All APIs support the input and output of JSON data.
JSON is a text format to represent simple data structures. Libraries to read and write JSON data are available for almost all programming languages. See the extensive table on http://json.org/.
For more information about JSON, see JSON on Wikipedia.
Date/time values are always in UTC in the format YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss
(e.g. 1997-07-16T19:20:30
). For more information, see:
Language codes are always a 2-character long lower-case string (e.g. en
, de
, ar
). For more information, see:
Unique identifiers are generated as 22-character long case-sensitive strings (e.g. fD9EDV2YROG7pSkBa-hLPg
).
Geographical locations include latitude followed by longitude and can be expressed as:
47.374463,8.52375
.47.374463,8.52375;47.374015,8.524908
.For more information, see:
Formatted content is represented as HTML. When dealing with such content, special characters must be escaped. Most programming languages provide utilities for this, such as Python with theĀ cgi.escape
function.