Formatters are what the toolkit uses to exchange data between toolkit entities such as operations, contexts, and services. Each formatter converts a specific data item into a string representation of the data item and parses a string into a specific data item. When you are defining either a flow or an operation using the Transaction editor, you have the option to define new formatters. Some of them are automatically generated by the tool when adding data mapping to flow transitions.
For a full description about how formatters work, the default provided formatters and how to configure them, you can refer to section Formatters.
For a full description about the default formatter and decorator properties, you can refer to section: Formatter external definitions and Decorator external definitions
To define data for a new formatter, do the following steps: