SCMP API Fields

Formatting Restrictions

Unless otherwise noted, all of the fields listed are order and case insensitive, and the fields accept special characters, such as @, #, and %.

Request-level and offer-level field names and values must not contain carets (^) or colons (:). However, they can contain embedded spaces and any other printable characters. If you use more than one consecutive space, the extra spaces are removed.

Data Types

Table 11

Data Types for the SCMP API

Data Type	Description
Date and time	The format is YYYY-MM-DDThhmmssZ. For example, 2019-03-22T224757Z is equal to March 22, 2019, at 10:47:57 P.M. The T separates the date and the time. The Z indicates Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), which is also known as Greenwich Mean Time.
Decimal	Number that includes a decimal point. Examples: 23.45, - 0.1, 4.0, 90809.0468.
Integer	Whole number {..., -3, -2, -1, 0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.
Non-negative integer	Whole number greater than or equal to zero {0, 1, 2, 3, ...}.
Positive integer	Whole number greater than zero {1, 2, 3, ...}.
String	Sequence of letters, numbers, spaces, and special characters, such as @ and #.