Preprocessors

Preprocessors define certain tasks to be executed before the actual import of an entity begins.

The following standard types of preprocessors are available:

• core: FindEntity (Preprocessor)

• core:FindEntityAttribute (Preprocessor)

• core:GetObjectFromBatch (Preprocessor)

• doc:BarcodeDocument (Preprocessor)

Lobster_data provides Orchestration templates for these preprocessor types, which can be merged into the object structure of a Single import or Batch import.

In XML, each individual preprocessor is represented by an preProcessor element with a type-specific internal structure.

General example:

<core:Import xmlns:core="CORESYSTEM" xmlns:xsd="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance">
...
	< entity node >
		...
		<preProcessor xsi:type="type_of_pp" config_attr_of_pp="5" ...>
			<config_node_of_pp>config_value</config_node_of_pp>
			...
		</preProcessor>
		...
	</ entity node >
...
</core:Import>