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Structured Data Types

The Date type used by attribute BiddingEnd looks like (very similar to C/C++):

struct Date
{
    unsigned long theYear;
    Month theMonth;
    unsigned short theDay;
    unsigned long theSecond;
} ;

IDL also supports the Union type (not used in the Auction system)

union Value switch (ValueType)
{
    case Integer_t: long iVal;
    case String_t:  string sVal;
};