12 SCALAR VALUE REPRESENTATION

The scalar value representation represents a single value that is not itself a domain object.

This representation is never returned directly from a resource, but may appear in-lined within the representation of an action invocation §C19.4 if the action returned a scalar type such as a string or an integer.

The media type for a scalar representation will always be one of:

The representation itself consists of the following json-properties:

{
  "value": ...,
  "links": [ {
      "rel": ".../return-type",
      ...
    },
    ...
  ],
  "extensions": {
    "format": ...,
    ...
   }
}

where:

Note that there is no "self" link, because the scalar value is not an addressable resource.

Restful Objects defines no standard child properties for the "extensions" json-property. Implementations are free to add to their own links/json-properties to "links" and "extensions" as they require.