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6.2.3.Format Templates

Some applications require different encodings, depending on the layout of the card, but use one chip type.

Plugins can be developed to support multiple encoding styles, definitions, formats, and all in combination.

In order to understand what "Format Templates" do, let's have a look at the following example.

Important

Keep in mind that there are several ways to achieve this, depending on the plugin and the requirement specification!!!

This is only an example demonstrating how a sophisticated plugin *could* handle the case. This does not work with all plugins and it requires the plugin to contain support for Format Templates!

Assume we have two cards with different layouts:

The first one is a guest card that should contain only a sequential serial number, which must be written to sector 0 using the key "1234", has 10 digits and should be filled with leading zeroes. We call it the "SeqSerNumber".

The second card is an employee card that should contain the employee number, which must be written to sector 0 using the same key as the guest card, and the first and last name of the employee, along with his birth date, which must be written to sector 1 using a highly secure key. The field names (and lengths) are "EmployeeNo" (10) and "Firstname" (20), "Lastname" (20), "BDate" (YY-MM-DD).

Using the same chip cards for both layouts allows using the same plugin, just with different "definitions" on what and how to encode.

For the two different encoding requirements, we would create two "Format Templates". Each of them contains the description of each request, so Format Template 1 would contain the following definition:

Format Template "Guest"

Fieldname	Sector	Key	Len	Filler	Format
SeqSerNum	0	1234	10	0	Num

and Format Template 2 would contain the definition:

Format Template "Employee"

Fieldname	Sector	Key	Len	Filler	Format
EmployeeNo	0	1234	10	leading 0	Num
Firstname	1	scrambled-high-secure-key	20	trailing spaces	Text
Lastname	1	scrambled-high-secure-key	20	trailing spaces	Text
BDate	1	scrambled-high-secure-key	-	-	Date
					(yy-mm-dd)

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