General features

Table 9 details the general features supported by the connector.

Table 9. General features
Category Feature Support Notes
Business Object Attributes Foreign key No

Foreign key attribute property N/A

Key No

Max length No This attribute is potentially used by data handlers, but not by the connector itself.

Meta-data-driven design Full

Required Full When the business object is passed to the connector for service call request processing, only the attributes marked Required are populated with their default values if they are CxIgnore or CxBlank.
Connection Lost Connection lost on poll No The connector returns FAIL only if there is an error trying to send a document or receive a response from a given URL during a poll call.

Connection lost on request processing No The connector returns FAIL only if an error is encountered when trying to post a document or read a response from a given URL.

Connection lost while idle No The connector does not maintain a connection to any URL. Any problem connecting to a given URL results in a FAIL for that particular action.
Connector Properties ApplicationPassword No The connector does not support user name/password exchanges with a URL.

ApplicationUserName No The connector does not support user name/password exchanges with a URL.

UseDefaults Full
Message Tracing General messaging Full

generateMsg() Full

Trace level 0 Full

Trace level 1 Full

Trace level 2 Full

Trace level 3 Full

Trace level 4 Full

Trace level 5 Full
Misc. CDK method LogMsg No

Java package names Full

Logging messages Full

NT service compliance Full

Transaction support N/A
Special Value CxBlank processing Partial Depending on the specific data handler used, the XML connector does not send values in the document that correspond to attributes with a CxBlank value.

CxIgnore processing Partial Attributes in a request object that have a CxIgnore value are not included in the XML document to be sent to the URL (this is based on the XML Data Handler only; other data handlers may have different rules).

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