Defined Data Types

[boshrin]

SCIM defines the following data types, and does not permit new types:

• String
• Boolean
• Decimal
• Integer
• DateTime
• Binary
• Reference

CIFER Core Schema has the following additional types:

• Country
• Date
• Locale
• Region
• extensibleVocabulary

[boshrin]

• Country, Locale, and Region could be "constrained" strings
• Date could be a "constrained" string, or a dateTime where the time portion is ignored by client and server, or a dateTime where time is always 00:00

[boshrin]

Based on today's call, proposal is for Date to also be a constrained string (ISO-8601 format). Keith to ask the SCIM list for suggestions on how to handle (eg) dateOfBirth in a hypothetical schema extension.

[khazelton]

SCIM list responses did not mandate a solution. Proposed resolution: CIFER "date" type maps to a SCIM string with value constrained to conform to what ISO-8601 calls "calendar date", e.g. 2015-02-18 or 20150815. Core schema MUST specify with hyphens. Implementations MUST support hyphenated form. The rationale is that this matches the ISO 8601 time format.

Should be ok to constrain SCIM string type for all the odd types we've come up with so far.