Questions regarding FluxColumn type

[admo-1]

FluxColumn has a string property called DataType. What are the possible values this property can take? Is there a list, apart from the DataType doc?
Some possible values make sense (int, double, string) but others like dateTime:RFC3339 seem a bit confusing.

[powersj]

Hi,

First, take a look at the line protocol docs here. They explain the various types that a field can be set to: float, integer, uinteger, string, boolean.

The python numeric types of int and float take care of the corresponding line protocol types. String will return as string. Booleans I believe come back as int as well, but I'm not 100% certain.

others like dateTime:RFC3339 seem a bit confusing.

Line protocol comes with timestmap, that is what the date time field is.

[admo-1]

Boolean return as boolean. This uncertainty is exactly why I asked this question. And I wonder:

• Why would anyone go to the line protocol docs to look for this particular information I am asking for? Data can be written in other ways.
• Is this docs providing a comprehensive answer to this need? I do not feel like it does. The dateTime:RFC3339 is a perfect example of that. Another one is unsignedLong which corresponds to UInteger in the docs you mention.

As a developer trying to read data from InfluxDb, how can I make use of the DataType property when I do not know for certain what values it can have?