Converting Business Objects to SWIFT Messages

To convert a business object to a SWIFT message, the SWIFT data handler loops through the attributes in the top-level business object in sequential order. It generates populated blocks of a SWIFT message recursively based on the order in which attributes appear in the business object and its children.

Attributes without a block number, or with values unrecognized by the parser properties, are ignored. Also ignored is block 0, the UUID header that is added by the MQSA.

The parse=value application-specific information property is used to determine how to format strings. This property parses the business object as follows:

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