Global Phone:Response

A response is the result of a request. This consists of returned results codes, parsed phone elements, and appended geographic information.

Depending on the protocol used to make the request, the response will be in a certain protocol. Global Phone supports JSON and REST protocols.

Field Names

This is a list of the response field names and their protocol naming conventions.

Field Name	Level	JSON
Version	Request	Version
Transmission Reference	Request	TransmissionReference
Transmission Results	Request	TransmissionResults
Record ID	Record	RecordID
Results	Record	Results
Phone Number	Record	PhoneNumber
Administrative Area	Record	AdministrativeArea
Country Abbreviation	Record	CountryAbbreviation
Country Name	Record	CountryName
Carrier	Record	Carrier
Daylight Savings Time	Record	DST
Language	Record	Language
Latitude	Record	Latitude
Longitude	Record	Longitude
Locality	Record	Locality
International Prefix	Record	PhoneInternationalPrefix
Country Dialing Code	Record	PhoneCountryDialingCode
Nation Prefix	Record	PhoneNationPrefix
National Destination Code	Record	PhoneNationalDestinationCode
Subscriber Number	Record	PhoneSubscriberNumber
Universal Time Code	Record	UTC
Suggestions	Record	Suggestions

Response Elements

The following elements are the basic options for each request. These apply to the entire response, not the individual records.

Version

This is a string value that is the current revision number of Global Phone.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“Version”:”string”

Transmission Reference

This is a string value that serves as a unique identifier for this set of records. It is returned as sent by the Request Array, allowing you to match the Response to the Request.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“TransmissionReference”:”string”

Transmission Results

This is a string value that lists error codes from any errors caused by the most recent request as a whole.

For a complete list of error codes, see Global Phone Result Codes.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“TransmissionResults”:”string”

Response Record Elements

JSON will only contain the Records element.

Protocol	Definition
JSON	Each phone number will be contained within [{}] under the Records element.

Each of the following elements are returned for each record in the Response Array.

Record ID

This is a string value that is a unique identifier for the current record if one was sent in the request. Use this element to match a request record and the corresponding response record.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“RecordID”:”string”

Results

This is a string value with comma delimited status, error codes, and change codes for the record.

For a complete list of codes, see Global Phone Result Codes.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“Results”:”string”

Phone Number

This is a string value of the standardized phone number after a successful call to the service.

The phone number will return in varying formats depending on the inputs. If the inputted country and country of origin are the same the returned number will include the National Destination Code + Subscriber Number. For example:

Input Phone	Input Country	Input Country of Origin	Phone Returned
495-728-5802	RU	RU	495-728-5802
+7 495-728-5802	RU	RU	495-728-5802
+1 495-728-5802	RU	RU	495-728-5802

If the inputted country and country of origin differ, the returned number will include a leading ‘+’ followed by the Country Code + National Destination Code + Subscriber Number. The leading ‘+’ represents the International Prefix that is required to dial a number outside of the caller’s country. For example:

Input Phone	Input Country	Input Country of Origin	Phone Returned
495-728-5802	RU	US	+7 495-728-5802
+7 495-728-5802	RU	US	+7 495-728-5802
+1 495-728-5802	RU	US	+7 495-728-5802

If a country is entered and a country of origin is left blank or not passed in, the returned number will match the format of the inputted phone number. For example:

Input Phone	Input Country	Input Country of Origin	Phone Returned
495-728-5802	RU	<blank>	495-728-5802
+7 495-728-5802	RU	<blank>	+7 495-728-5802
+1 495-728-5802	RU	<blank>	+7 495-728-5802

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“PhoneNumber”:”string”

Administrative Area

This is a string that returns the administrative area associated with the inputted phone number.

Because of phone number portability, geographical information may not reflect the true location of the owner of the phone number for wireless and VOIP numbers.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“AdministrativeArea”:”string”

Country Abbreviation

This is a string that returns the abbreviation of the country for the inputted phone number.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“CountryAbbreviation”:”string”

Country Name

This is a string that returns the name of the country for the inputted phone number.

Because of phone number portability, geographical information may not reflect the true location of the owner of the phone number for wireless and VOIP numbers.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“CountryName”:”string”

Carrier

This is a string that returns the name of the phone’s carrier.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“Carrier”:”string”

Daylight Savings Time

This is a string that returns a ‘Y’ (for yes) or ‘N’ (for no) to distinguish whether the region of the inputted phone number observes daylight savings time.

Because of phone number portability, geographical information may not reflect the true location of the owner of the phone number for wireless and VOIP numbers.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“DST”:”string”

Language

This is a string that returns the predominant language of the phone’s detected geographical location.

The field will return the written out form of the language name. For example: “French”.

Because of phone number portability, geographical information may not reflect the true location of the owner of the phone number for wireless and VOIP numbers.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“Language”:”string”

Latitude

This is a string that returns the latitude of the geographically identifiable service area of the exchange.

Latitude is the geographic coordinate of the locale, city, municipality, or other geographically identifiable service area of the exchange measured in degrees north or south of the equator.

Because of phone number portability, geographical information may not reflect the true location of the owner of the phone number for wireless and VOIP numbers.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“Latitude”:”string”

Longitude

This is a string that returns the longitude of the geographically identifiable service area of the exchange.

Longitude is the geographic coordinate of the locale, city, municipality, or other geographically identifiable service area of the exchange measured in degrees east or west of the Greenwich Meridian.

Because of phone number portability, geographical information may not reflect the true location of the owner of the phone number for wireless and VOIP numbers.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“Longitude”:”string”

Locality

This is a string that returns the locality (city) associated with the phone number passed to the Lookup function.

Because of phone portability, geographical information may not reflect the true location of the owner of the phone number for wireless and VOIP numbers.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“Locality”:”string”

International Prefix

This is a string value that returns the international exit code needed to call a number outside of the dialing country.

If the input country and country of origin differ, this will return the digit(s) required to be dialed before the country code.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“PhoneInternationalPrefix”:”string”

Country Dialing Code

This is a string that returns a digit, or combination of digits, known as the country dialing code.

This will return the digit(s) dialed after the international prefix.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“PhoneCountryDialingCode”:”string”

Nation Prefix

This is a string that returns a digit, or combination of digits, known as the national prefix.

The national prefix must be dialed before an area (city) code when calling a number within the same country but outside the numbering area.

For example (US phone number): 1-949-589-5200 where 1 is the national prefix.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“PhoneNationPrefix”:”string”

National Destination Code

This is a string that returns a digit, or combination of digits, known as the national destination code.

The national destination code that identifies a numbering area within a country (or group of countries) and/or network/services.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“PhoneNationalDestinationCode”:”string”

Subscriber Number

This is string that returns the subscriber number associated with the phone number passed in.

The subscriber number contains significant leading digits that further define the local exchange area and/or service.

Because of phone number portability, geographical information may not reflect the true location of the owner of the phone number for wireless and VOIP numbers.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“PhoneSubscriberNumber”:”string”

Universal Time Code

This is a string that returns the universal time code for the time zone associated with the inputted phone number.

UTC returns the time zone specified with the format: +/- hh:mm.

Because of phone number portability, geographical information may not reflect the true location of the owner of the phone number for wireless and VOIP numbers.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“UTC”:”string”

Suggestions

This is an array of Response Record Elements. This can only be returned for single-record requests.

Protocol	Syntax
JSON	“Suggestions”:”string”