This topic describes outbound and inbound events.
The adapter follows these steps to perform an outbound
operation on an inbound business object:
- It
extracts meta-data from the InteractionSpec that identifies the
appropriate component interface to access.
- It extracts properties from the InteractionSpec that determine
the outbound operation to perform.
- Within the component interface, the adapter sets the keys from
values specified in the business objects.
- The adapter instantiates an existing component interface to
retrieve, update, or create a component interface, and then it populates
that component interface with data from the hierarchy of business
objects.
Note: The adapter processes attributes in the order
defined in the business object. For example, if there is a complex attribute
between two simple attributes, the adapter processes the simple
attribute at the first position, then the complex attribute followed
by the simple attribute. After the changes are made, the component
interface is saved to commit the data to the PeopleSoft database.
This pattern of processing is used for Create and Update operations
only.
The adapter can support inbound events as well. If your environment
requires inbound support, you must first use PeopleTools Application
Designer to create a custom event project. See . . . <ADD LINK
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