General Features

Table 14 details the general features supported by the connector.

Table 14. General Features

Category Feature Support Notes
Business Object Attributes Foreign key No

Foreign Key attribute property No

Key Full Key attributes are used for object retrieval.

Max Length No

Meta-data-driven design Full

Required Full The connector fails a Create operation if a business object does not have a valid value or a default value for a Required attribute.
Connection Lost Connection lost on poll Full

Connection lost on request processing Full

Connection lost while idle Full
Connector Properties ApplicationPassword Full

ApplicationUserName Full

UseDefaults Full
Message Tracing General messaging Partial Tracing approximates the specified levels.

generateMsg() Partial Generate message is used for some tracing.

Trace level 0 Partial

Trace level 1 Partial

Trace level 2 Partial

Trace level 3 Partial

Trace level 4 Partial

Trace level 5 Partial
Misc. CDK method LogMsg Partial Some strings are hard coded.

Java Package Names N/A

Logging messages Full

NT service compliance Full

Transaction support No For the connector, a transaction is not defined as an operation on a complete hierarchical business object. Instead, the connector defines a separate transaction for each operation on individual parent or child business objects in a hierarchical business object. When the connector receives a business object with a Create verb, it first processes the parent business object and then processes each individual child business object. Under normal conditions, the connector begins a transaction for each business object in the hierarchy, creates the entity in the application, and commits the transaction. If the connector succeeds in creating one or more child entities, and a failure occurs during the creation of another child entity, the connector rolls back the Create operation for this particular business object by backing out the entity. The connector continues processing child business objects until all the remaining entities have been created. Because there was a failure, the connector returns FAIL to the integration broker for the overall operation on the business object. In addition, the Create or Update operation in the application may be incomplete. This scenario is similar for an Update transaction.
Special Value CxBlank processing Full

CxIgnore processing Full

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