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API.suffix—Specific API Event Variables

In addition to the common API event variables, each application that uses the API defines its own application-specific variables.

These variables have the following format:

API.suffix

suffix

Specifies a length of 1 to 15 characters.

The names and characteristics of the specific API event variables are supplied in documentation provided by the application. There may be a few specific variables or as many as 256. Individual variables may hold up to 4096 bytes in length, and the total data length allowed by the API is 32768 bytes per event. Specific API variables may be read-only or read/write variables.