At present, Orchestra supports 22 base types:
- Null
- AvesTerra (reserved for server use)
- Boolean (true or false)
- Character (single 8-bit character)
- String (array of 8-bit ASCII characters)
- Text (array of UTF-8 characters)
- Integer (64-bit integer)
- Float (64-bit float)
- Entity (128-bit Orchestra unique ID)
- Time (64-bit encoding of Unix-based time)
- Web (Internet URL)
- Interchange (JSON-based exchange)
- Data (8-bit binary data sequence)
- Exception (Orchestra error encoding)
- Operator (Orchestra Tuple-Machine instruction encoding)
- Function (Orchestra Tuple-Machine function encoding)
- Measurement (value, units, prefix, precision, and accuracy encoding)
- Locutor (Orchestra “locution locator”)
- Authorization (128-bit Internet UUID v4, see Authorizations)
- Duration (delta time, in seconds)
- Aggregate (key-based collection of Orchestra value types)
- Array (array of Orchestra value types)
TODO: add the bytes representation of each value