The following table details the event notification features supported by
the connector.
Category | Feature | Support | Notes |
---|---|---|---|
Connector properties | Event distribution | N/A |
Currently, all events from an Ariba Buyer instance (even if multi-node and/or multi- server) go through a single multi-threaded connector instance.
|
| PollQuantity | N/A |
Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so no event polling or event table is required. |
Event table | Event status values | N/A |
Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so no event polling or event table is required. |
| Object key | N/A |
Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so no event polling or event table is required. |
| Object name | N/A |
Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so no event polling or event table is required. |
| Priority | N/A |
Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so no event polling or event table is required. |
Misc. | Archiving | N/A |
Ariba Buyer keeps track of event status, thus there is no need to archive events. |
|
CDK method gotApplEvent | No |
gotApplEvent() is called, but not from within pollForEvents() because the connector does not poll. It is event-driven. |
| Delta event notification | Full |
|
| Event sequence | N/A |
Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so an event table is not needed. No other explicit sequencing is required. |
| Future event processing | N/A |
Ariba Buyer has the ability to schedule events. The connector only receives events at times when the event should be sent. |
| In-Progress event recovery | N/A |
The connector does not implement this functionality because Ariba Buyer handles recovery of failed events.
|
| Physical delete event | No |
Although the connector will forward the request as a BO with the Delete verb, it cannot identify key values nor set non-key values to CxIgnore. However, the intended effect can be achieved by the solution integrator if desired. |
| RetrieveAll | Partial |
The connector does not support the RetrieveAll feature. However, when Ariba Buyer sends data to the connector for event notification, it does send every field in the hierarchical business object that has its metadataIntegratable flag set to true in the Ariba Buyer object model. |
| Smart filtering | N/A |
Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so no event polling or event table is required. |
| Verb stability | N/A |
Ariba Buyer provides event notification, so no event polling or event table is required. |