General features

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

Category Feature Support Notes
Business object attributes Foreign key No

Foreign key attribute property N/A No validations are done by the connector.

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 processing No A fatal error is logged to trigger e-mail notification, and the connector returns a FAIL.

Connection lost while idle No
Connector properties ApplicationPassword Yes

ApplicationUserName Yes

UseDefaults No There is no validation of the business objects by the connector. i2 validates the XML sent from the connector as input. No call to initAndValidateAttributes.
Message tracing General messaging Full

generateMsg() No

Trace level 0 Full

Trace level 1 Full

Trace level 2 Full

Trace level 3 N/A

Trace level 4 Full

Trace level 5 Full
Misc. CDK method LogMsg Full WBIA API methods generateAndTrace and generateAndLogMsgs are used.

Java Package Names Full

Logging messages Full

NT service compliance Full

Transaction support N/A There is no transaction support in i2.
Special value CxBlank processing Full Empty double quotation marks ("") in an XML document are used as the PCDATA equivalent of CxBlank.

CxIgnore processing Full No XML is generated for CxIgnore attributes.

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