Summary

There are two categories of primitives used in the OSIDs. Language primitives are defined in the Structure and Definitions of OSIDs specification and do not have interfaces specified in the OSIDs. These language primitives are left to the OSID Language Specification to interpret. The OSIDs designate certain interfaces as OSID Primitives. OSID Primitives have interface definitions expected to be used in the OSID Language Binding.

This section deals with language primitives.

Mapping Rules

OSID Language Primitive	Mapping to Java	Restrictions
boolean	boolean
byte	byte
cardinal	long	>= 0
decimal	java.math.BigDecimal	not null
integer	long
object	java.lang.Object	not null
string	java.lang.String	not null
timestamp¹	java.util.Date	not null

¹ osid.calendaring.DateTime is used in most places needing a date and time. timestamps are used in a few places where the flexibility of the DateTime interface is not desired (this may be short sighted).

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