Response envelope returned by both the ANU Quantum Numbers (AQN) API at api.quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au and the deprecated legacy QRNG@ANU endpoint at qrng.anu.edu.au/API/jsonI.php. ANU publishes no schema; this one is DERIVED by API Evangelist from ANU's published documentation and confirmed against a live legacy response captured 2026-08-19.
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Properties
Name
Type
Description
type
string
Echo of the requested data type. hex8 is offered by the AQN service only; the legacy endpoint offers uint8, uint16 and hex16.
length
integer
Number of values in data.
size
integer
Block size, present for the hexadecimal types. AQN caps this at 10; the legacy endpoint documents 1-1024.
data
array
The quantum random values.
success
boolean
True when the request was served. Note that the legacy endpoint signals a rate-limit refusal by returning a plain-text body with HTTP 200 rather than this envelope with success:false.
{
"$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
"$id": "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/anu/refs/heads/main/json-schema/anu-quantum-numbers-response-schema.json",
"title": "ANU Quantum Numbers response",
"description": "Response envelope returned by both the ANU Quantum Numbers (AQN) API at api.quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au and the deprecated legacy QRNG@ANU endpoint at qrng.anu.edu.au/API/jsonI.php. ANU publishes no schema; this one is DERIVED by API Evangelist from ANU's published documentation and confirmed against a live legacy response captured 2026-08-19.",
"x-provenance": {
"method": "derived",
"generated": "2026-08-19",
"source": "https://quantumnumbers.anu.edu.au/documentation",
"confirmed_against": "https://qrng.anu.edu.au/API/jsonI.php?length=4&type=uint8",
"x-operator": "institution"
},
"type": "object",
"required": ["type", "length", "data", "success"],
"additionalProperties": false,
"properties": {
"type": {
"type": "string",
"enum": ["uint8", "uint16", "hex8", "hex16"],
"description": "Echo of the requested data type. hex8 is offered by the AQN service only; the legacy endpoint offers uint8, uint16 and hex16."
},
"length": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 1024,
"description": "Number of values in data."
},
"size": {
"type": "integer",
"minimum": 1,
"maximum": 1024,
"description": "Block size, present for the hexadecimal types. AQN caps this at 10; the legacy endpoint documents 1-1024."
},
"data": {
"type": "array",
"minItems": 1,
"maxItems": 1024,
"description": "The quantum random values.",
"items": {
"oneOf": [
{ "type": "integer", "minimum": 0, "maximum": 65535 },
{ "type": "string", "pattern": "^[0-9a-f]+$" }
]
}
},
"success": {
"type": "boolean",
"description": "True when the request was served. Note that the legacy endpoint signals a rate-limit refusal by returning a plain-text body with HTTP 200 rather than this envelope with success:false."
}
}
}