Friendly Data Types

All data types can be used in scripts as parameters in an expression.

The Expression Language supports any Java data types entered as a fully qualified Java class name. As with the Java language, all classes defined as part of the java.lang package can be named directly without having to include the package name. For example, the java.lang.String class can also be referred to as String. That is because the String class is both a friendly data type and also defined in the default java.lang package for which all classes do not need to be entered using their fully qualified class name. However, the java.util.ArrayList class cannot be referred to as simply ArrayList.

In addition to the fully qualified Java class names, the Cisco CRS expression language defines friendly data types that are equivalent to these Java class names. Entering these data types in a script is the same as entering their equivalent fully qualified Java class names.

Primitive Java data types such as int, boolean, long, float, byte, char, short, double are automatically converted into their corresponding Java object representation. You can enter into a Cisco Unified CCX script either the Java class name or the Cisco Unified CCX friendly data type name.

Table lists the friendly data types that the Expression Language uses and their equivalents in Java. The Java equivalent class names are the Java fully qualified class name, that is the data name and the package in which it is included.