Mapping XML Data Types to Java and C# Data Types

In this guide, the UML class and object diagrams use the primitive data type names such as string and integer, without the XML Schema definition namespace prefix (xsd:). The vSphere API Reference contains the complete data type name, such as xsd:string. The data types map to the primitive data types of the programming language used for the client application.

The following table lists some of the more common XML primitive data type mappings.

XML Schema	Java	.NET Data Type
xsd:base64binary	byte[]	Byte[]
xsd:boolean	boolean	Boolean
xsd:byte	byte	SByte
xsd:dateTime	java.util.Calendar	DateTime
xsd:decimal	java.math.BigDecimal	Decimal
xsd:double	double	Double
xsd:float	float	Single
xsd:int	int	Int32
xsd:string	java.lang.String	String