Category

Feature

Support

Notes

 

 

 

 

 

Logical delete

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

Exist

Exist verb

No

 

 

 

 

 

Misc

Attribute names

Partial

MO_Instance is the standard used to

 

 

 

represent the metaobject containing the

 

 

 

instance ID in any wrapper business object.

 

 

 

 

 

Business object names

Full

 

 

 

 

 

Retrieve

Ignore missing child object

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

RetrieveByContent

Ignore missing child object

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

 

Multiple results

N/A

There is only one output type per operation.

 

 

 

 

 

RetrieveByContent verb

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

Update

After-image support

Full

 

 

 

 

 

 

Delta support

No

 

 

 

 

 

 

KeepRelations

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

Verbs

Retrieve verb

N/A

This is decided by the operation for retrieval.

 

 

 

 

 

Subverb support

N/A

The verbs are operations that are valid for the

 

 

 

entire wrapper business object. The children

 

 

 

are essentially the input and output types for

 

 

 

the operation, and they have no existence

 

 

 

without the operation.

 

 

 

 

 

Verb stability

Full

 

 

 

 

 

General features

The following table details the general features supported by the connector.

Category

Feature

Support

Notes

 

 

 

 

Business object

Foreign key

No

 

attributes

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Foreign key attribute

N/A

No validations are done by the connector.

 

property

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Key

No

The connector does not validate the XML

 

 

 

messages.

 

 

 

 

 

Max Length

N/A

 

 

 

 

 

 

Metadata-driven design

Full

 

 

 

 

 

 

Required

Full

If set to true on the child attribute, the child

 

 

 

is expected to have a representation in the

 

 

 

parent business object.

 

 

 

 

Connection lost

Connection lost on poll

Partial

The connector returns

 

 

 

APPRESPONSETIMEOUT only when it fails

 

 

 

to register all the operations. Otherwise, the

 

 

 

polling continues after a fatal message is

 

 

 

logged for e-mail triggering, giving

 

 

 

information on the failed poll call.

 

 

 

 

 

Connection lost on request

No

A fatal error is logged to trigger e-mail

 

processing

 

notification, and the connector returns a

 

 

 

FAIL.

 

 

 

 

 

Connection lost while idle

No

 

 

 

 

 

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