When you are building a Web services pipeline search to return a list of all entities related to a specific entity at 1-degree, use the built-in format code WS_RELATION. This format code is specified in the UMF_QUERY input document that contains the criteria for the query.
<UMF_QUERY> <FORMAT_CODE>WS_RELATION</FORMAT_CODE> <DSRC_CODE>1589</DSRC_CODE> <DSRC_REF>ABC-003</DSRC_REF> <ENTITY_ID>87</ENTITY_ID> </UMF_QUERY>
After sending this UMF_QUERY document through Web services for processing by a Web services pipeline, the calling application receives a response in the following UMF_QUERY_RESULT document:
<UMF_QUERY_RESULT> <DSRC_CODE>1589</DSRC_CODE> <RELATION> <DETAIL> <ENTITY_ID>87</ENTITY_ID> <INBOUND_VALUE_ABST>415-555-3325</INBOUND_VALUE_ABST> <MATCHED_CODE>6</MATCHED_CODE> <MATCHED_DSRC_ACCT>6</MATCHED_DSRC_CODE> <MATCHED_ENTITY_ID>376</MATCHED_ENTITY_ID> <MATCHED_KEY_ID>16</MATCHED_KEY_ID> <MATCHED_TYPE>NUMBER</MATCHED_TYPE> <MATCHED_VALUE_ABST>415-555-3325</MATCHED_VALUE_ABST> <MATCH_PRECISION>EXACT MATCH</MATCH_PRECISION> <SIMILARITY_ID>1</SIMILARITY_ID> </DETAIL> <DETAIL> <ENTITY_ID>87</ENTITY_ID> <LIKE_CONF>40</LIKE_CONF> <MATCH_ID>376</MATCH_ID> <RELTO_ID>6</RELTO_ID> </DETAIL> <DETAIL> <ENTITY_ID>87</ENTITY_ID> <INBOUND_VALUE_ABST>1111-22-3333</INBOUND_VALUE_ABST> <MATCHED_CODE>6</MATCHED_CODE> <MATCHED_DSRC_ACCT>6</MATCHED_DSRC_CODE> <MATCHED_ENTITY_ID>10651/MATCHED_ENTITY_ID> <MATCHED_KEY_ID>16</MATCHED_KEY_ID> <MATCHED_TYPE>NUMBER</MATCHED_TYPE> <MATCH_PRECISION>EXACT MATCH</MATCH_PRECISION> <SIMILARITY_ID>1</SIMILARITY_ID> </DETAIL> <DETAIL> <ENTITY_ID>87</ENTITY_ID> <LIKE_CONF>40</LIKE_CONF> <MATCH_ID>10651</MATCH_ID> <RELTO_ID>6</RELTO_ID> </RELATION> <FORMAT_CODE>WS_RELATION</FORMAT_CODE> <UMF_QUERY_RESULT>