Customizing the EDI data handler

You can customize the EDI data handler by creating a special name handler. The EDI data handler calls the name handler to obtain the name of the business object to create. The data handler determines which name handler to invoke by using the value of the NameHandlerClass attribute stored in the data-handler meta-object. The default name handler included with the EDI data handler looks for the business object name in the name-handler lookup file (indicated by the NameHandlerFile meta-object attribute). If you need the name handler to function in a different way, you:

  1. Create a custom name handler by extending the NameHandler class.
  2. Configure the EDI data handler to use the custom name-handler class by updating the default value of the NameHandlerClass attribute in the meta-object for the EDI data handler.

For information on how to create a custom data handler, see Building a custom name handler.

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