Wire Format Datatypes

Wire Format Type

Type Description

Notes
Special Types

TIBRVMSG_MSG

Rendezvous message

  

TIBRVMSG_DATETIME

Rendezvous datetime

  

TIBRVMSG_OPAQUE

opaque byte sequence

 

TIBRVMSG_STRING

ISO 8859-1 character string (also called Latin-1)

NULL-terminated.

TIBRVMSG_XML

XML data (byte sequence)

  
Scalar Types

TIBRVMSG_BOOL

boolean

TIBRV_FALSE, TIBRV_TRUE

TIBRVMSG_I8

8-bit integer

  

TIBRVMSG_I16

16-bit integer

  

TIBRVMSG_I32

32-bit integer

  

TIBRVMSG_I64

64-bit integer

  

TIBRVMSG_U8

8-bit unsigned integer

  

TIBRVMSG_U16

16-bit unsigned integer

  

TIBRVMSG_U32

32-bit unsigned integer

  

TIBRVMSG_U64

64-bit unsigned integer

  

TIBRVMSG_F32

32-bit floating point

  

TIBRVMSG_F64

64-bit floating point

  

TIBRVMSG_IPADDR32

4-byte IP address

Network byte order.

String representation is four-part dot-delimited notation.

TIBRVMSG_IPPORT16

2-byte IP port

Network byte order.

String representation is a 16-bit decimal integer.
Array Types

TIBRVMSG_I8ARRAY

8-bit integer array

The count property of the field reflects the number of elements in the array.

TIBRVMSG_I16ARRAY

16-bit integer array

TIBRVMSG_I32ARRAY

32-bit integer array

TIBRVMSG_I64ARRAY

64-bit integer array

TIBRVMSG_U8ARRAY

8-bit unsigned integer array

TIBRVMSG_U16ARRAY

16-bit unsigned integer array

TIBRVMSG_U32ARRAY

32-bit unsigned integer array

TIBRVMSG_U64ARRAY

64-bit unsigned integer array

TIBRVMSG_F32ARRAY

32-bit floating point array

TIBRVMSG_F64ARRAY

64-bit floating point array

TIBRVMSG_MESSAGEARRAY

message array

TIBRVMSG_STRINGARRAY

string array
Custom Types

TIBRVMSG_USER_FIRST

First code available for custom datatypes.

For more information, see Custom Datatypes.

TIBRVMSG_USER_LAST

Last code available for custom datatypes.