ContentMetaData class

The Object Discovery Agent Development Kit (ODK) API provides the ContentMetaData class to contain the meta-data for the generated content of the Object Discovery Agent (ODA). Member variables of this class represent the ODA's content meta-data. When the ODA generates its content, it must return a content-meta-data object to describe the generated content. The method that returns the content meta-data depends on the content protocol that the ODA supports, as follows:

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For more information, see Providing generated content.

Business Object Designer uses the content-meta-data object to obtain information about the generated content for each of the content types that the ODA supports. To determine the supported generation protocols, Business Object Designer calls the ODA's getContentProtocol() method (from its IGeneratesContent class).

The ContentMetaData class defines the following:

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