Data Type Map

When working with Vault field values in the Vault Java SDK, you must map the data type configured in a Vault field to a Java data type in order to manipulate the field value in Java code.

You can learn more about Vault object fields and document fields in Vault Help.

Fields with a non-null format_mask have a UI display value. To get the UI display value of fields, use RecordDisplayService or VQL’s TODISPLAYFORMAT(). For example, Time fields are stored as a String (such as 01:00:00) and displayed in the Vault UI according to the user's locale (such as 1:00 AM or 1:00).

The ValueType interface also provides this mapping.

Vault Field Type	ValueType	Returned Data Type
Text	ValueType.STRING	String
Yes/No	ValueType.BOOLEAN	Boolean
Number	ValueType.NUMBER	BigDecimal
Date	ValueType.DATE	LocalDate
DateTime	ValueType.DATETIME	ZonedDateTime
Picklist	ValueType.PICKLIST_VALUES	List<String>
Object	ValueType.STRING	String
Parent	ValueType.STRING	String
Lookup	Same as Source	Depends on ValueType
ID	ValueType.STRING	String
Multi-Value References (Documents only)	ValueType.REFERENCES	List<String>
Currency	ValueType.NUMBER	BigDecimal
LongText	ValueType.STRING	String
RichText	ValueType.STRING	String
Link	ValueType.STRING	String
Email	ValueType.STRING	String
Phone	ValueType.STRING	String
Percent	ValueType.NUMBER	BigDecimal
Time	ValueType.STRING	String