Simple Types
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UUID
IDs are generated as UUID V4 globally unique identifiers
FFTime
Times are serialized to JSON on the API in RFC 3339 / ISO 8601 nanosecond UTC time
for example 2022-05-05T21:19:27.454767543Z.
Note that JavaScript can parse this format happily into millisecond time with Date.parse().
Times are persisted as a nanosecond resolution timestamps in the database.
On input, and in queries, times can be parsed from RFC3339, or unix timestamps (second, millisecond or nanosecond resolution).
FFBigInt
Large integers of up to 256bits in size are common in blockchain, and handled in FireFly.
In JSON output payloads in FireFly, including events, they are serialized as strings (with base 10).
On input you can provide JSON string (string with an 0x prefix are
parsed at base 16), or a JSON number.
Be careful when using JSON numbers, that the largest number that is safe to transfer using a JSON number is 2^53 - 1.
JSONAny
Any JSON type. An object, array, string, number, boolean or null.
FireFly stores object data with the same field order as was provided on the input, but with any whitespace removed.
JSONObject
Any JSON Object. Must be an object, rather than an array or a simple type.