Connector SDK demonstration connector

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The service implementation serves content using the appengine-rest-server adapter written by the development team.

Downloading the demonstration connector

You can access the demonstration connector by downloading the connector-sdk-demo-<version>.car.zip. The zip file contains the demonstration (demo) connector and descriptor file which are ready to be uploaded to the platform and your account using the Developer tab.

• To download the latest compiled version of the demo connector from Boomi's Amazon S3 repository, use the following URL: ).

• To download the latest version of the demo connector source from Boomi's Amazon S3 repository, use the following URL: ).

Implementation classes

The demo connector includes the following Implementation classes:

• — The Connector implementation, responsible for bootstrapping the other classes.
• — Implementation of metadata browsing for the demo service.
• — Implementation of connection for the demo service.
• — Implementation of XML object joiner.
• — Implementation of simple object that wraps the response from the demo service.
• — Implementation of XML splitter.
• — Implementation of object creation.
• — Implementation of single object retrieval by ID.
• — Implementation of multiple object retrieval using query filters.
• — Implementation of existing object updating (either partial or complete).
• — Implementation of object deletion.
• — Implementation of metadata browsing for a custom execute operation.
• — Implementation of a custom execute operation.
• — Simple data structure to hold data for a browse-time cookie.
• — Simple data structure to hold data for the response to a custom execute operation.

Test classes

The demo connector includes the following Test classes:

• DemoBrowserTest.java — Unit tests for metadata browsing operations.
• DemoOperationTest.java — Unit tests for object operations.
• DemoExecuteEchoTest.java — Unit tests for custom execute operations.

Demonstration connector descriptor examples

The demonstration (demo) connector descriptor file (connector-descriptor.xml) provides examples of how you can configure connector operations:

• Shared operation configuration — Example of configuration applied to multiple operation types.
• Query filter configuration — Example of Query filter configuration.
• Custom operation configuration — Example of custom operation configuration, the @trackedDocument="user" attribute allowing users to select the tracking direction for an operation, and various field type declarations.