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Sterling B2B Integrator - EBICS Compression Service
The EBICS Compression service compresses and decompresses files.
The following table provides an overview of the EBICS Compression service:
System Name | EBICS Compression Service |
Graphical Process Modeler (GPM) categories | All Services |
Description | This service performs EBICS compression and decompression using zlib in pipeline mode. |
Business usage | The EBICS Compression service performs a part of the packing and unpacking of order data. |
Usage examples | A business process is called by the EBICS Order Processing service to either compress or decompress payload data. |
Preconfigured? | This service must be installed and deployed before it is invoked. No configuration parameters are required. |
Requires third-party files? | No |
Platform availability | All supported Sterling B2B Integrator platforms. |
Related services | None |
Application requirements | None |
Initiates business processes? | No |
Invocation | This service is invoked from a business process. |
Business process context considerations | Use this service in a business process to either compress or decompress order data. |
Returned status values | Fatal – Nonrecoverable error Transient – Recoverable error Logic – Recoverable error Success Warning |
Restrictions | None |
Persistence level | System default |
Debug | Debugging information for this service is located in Sterling B2B Integrator. Navigate to . |
Output from Business Process to EBICS Compression Service
The following table contains the parameters passed from a business process to the EBICS Compression service:
Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
action | Required. The action to be taken. Valid values are COMPRESS and DECOMPRESS. |
CommSessionId | Required. The communication session ID to which the service belongs to, for example, 012345. |
pipelineTimeout | Optional. The pipeline timeout value. Default value is 300 seconds. |
TransactionId | Required. The ID of the EBICS transaction, for example, TransactionId012345. |
WfId | Required. The workflow ID of the transaction, for example, WfId012345. |
mode | Optional. Indicates if the service is being invoked by the EBICS Banking Server or the EBICS Client. Valid values are Server and Client. The default value is Server. If you do not provide a value for this parameter, the default value is used. |
Business Process Examples
The following example business process illustrates payload compression:
<process name="ebicscompression">
<sequence>
<operation>
<participant name="EBICSCompressionService"/>
<output message="compressRequest">
<assign to="." from="*"/>
<assign to="action"from="'COMPRESS'"/>
</output>
<input message="compressResponse">
<assign to="." from="*"/>
</input>
</operation>
</sequence>
</process>
The following example business process illustrates payload decompression:
<process name="ebicsdecompression">
<operation>
<participant name="EBICSCompressionService"/>
<output message="decompressRequest">
<assign to="." from="*"/>
<assign to="action" from="'DECOMPRESS'"/>
</output>
<input message="decompressResponse">
<assign to="." from="*"/>
</input>
</operation>
</process>
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