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Data type comparisons
The following table compares the basic WDDX data types with the data types to which they
correspond in the languages and technologies commonly used on the web:
WDDX CFML
null N/A
boolean Boolean
number Number
dateTime DateTime
string String
array Array
struct Structure
recordset Query
object
binary Binary
Time zone processing
Producers and consumers of WDDX packets can be in geographically dispersed locations.
Therefore, it is important to use time zone information when serializing and deserializing data, to
ensure that date-time values are represented correctly.
The
cfwddx action=cfml2wddx
zone information in serializing the date-time data. In the JavaScript implementation,
is a property of the
useTimezoneInfo
value is True.
useTimezoneInfo
Date-time values in WDDX are represented using a subset of the ISO8601 format. Time zone
information is represented as an hour/minute offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC);
for example, "2002-9-8T12:6:26-4:0".
When the tag deserializes WDDX to CFML, it automatically uses available time zone
cfwddx
information, and converts date-time values to local time. In this way, you do not need to worry
about the details of time zone conversions.
However, when the JavaScript objects supplied with ColdFusion deserialize WDDX to JavaScript
expressions, they do not use time zone information, because in JavaScript it is difficult to
determine the time zone of the browser.
XML
Schema Java
N/A null
boolean java.lang.Boolean
number java.lang.Double
dateTime java.lang.Date
string java.lang.String
N/A java.lang.Vector
N/A java.lang.
Hashtable
N/A coldfusion.run
time.QueryTable
binary byte[]
tag
useTimezoneInfo
WddxSerializer
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ECMAScript/
JavaScript COM
null VT_NULL
boolean VT_BOOL
number VT_R8
Date VT_DATE
string VT_BSTR
Array VT_ARRAY |
VT_VARIANT
Object IWDDXStruct
WddxRecordset IWDDXRecordset
WddxBinary V_ARRAY | UI1
attribute specifies whether to use time
object. In both cases the default
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