WebSphere Adapter for SAP Software
The metadata generated by enterprise service discovery provides the adapter with instructions on how to process SQI business objects. Metadata is generated at the business-object level, the operation level, and the property level.
The following table describes the business-object metadata elements of an SQI business object.
Metadata element | Description |
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TableName | The name of the table that this business object represents. |
DataDelimiter | The character used as the delimiter in parsing returned data. The default value is |. The enterprise service discovery generates the default value. |
Type | The interface type the business object is supporting, which for the SAP query interface is SQI. |
The following table describes the property-level metadata elements of an SQI business object.
Metadata element | Description |
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ColumnName | The name of the business-object parameter, which is the actual column name in the SAP table. |
PrimaryKey | An indication of whether this property is a primary key. |
ForeignKey | Provides the foreign key relationship (if IsKey is true), which is the reference to the parent table key parameter. |
The operation-level metadata for an SQI business object specifies which data should be returned from the SAP table.
The following table describes the operation-level metadata elements of an SQI business object.
Metadata element | Description |
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sapWhereClause | Retrieves information from SAP tables. The default value is populated by enterprise service discovery. |
maxRows | The maximum number of rows to be returned. The default value is 100. |
rowsSkip | The number of rows to skip before retrieving data. The default value is 0. |
Last updated: Mon 30 Oct 2006 03:34:55
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