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Matthew

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Jan 25, 2012, 11:13:53 AM1/25/12

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I'm a developer, and would like to provide my own input method into
the bots processing stream and then take what I want from the output.
But I can't seem to do this within the bots software without relying
on a configured database (because of the backend retrieval of
information and processing) that must be done through the web-
frontend, providing my own routing script (which still needs to be set
up in the database), or anything other than that.

I just want to be able to insert input and get output from the
translating / mapping portion of the software.

Could you point me in the right direction of trying to accomplish
this? Or at least let me know of other possibilities.

Thanks.

hjeb...@gmail.com

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Jan 25, 2012, 11:36:34 AM1/25/12

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On 01/25/2012 05:13 PM, Matthew wrote:
> I'm a developer, and would like to provide my own input method into
> the bots processing stream and then take what I want from the output.
> But I can't seem to do this within the bots software without relying
> on a configured database (because of the backend retrieval of
> information and processing) that must be done through the web-
> frontend, providing my own routing script (which still needs to be set
> up in the database), or anything other than that.

> I just want to be able to insert input and get output from the
> translating / mapping portion of the software.

that is right.
most edi software works that way! there are good reasons for that.
you are probably looking for an 'edi-library'.
the only edi-libraries are the one that eg convert edifact one-on-one to xml.
basically edifact seperators are replaced bij xml-syntax.
(and after that you are buidling your own translator (or xslt) to do the semantic translation.)

this type of translator was a lot used in 1985-1995 (though they did not work with xml but flat files).
after 1995 I have very seldom seen this type of translator appear.
(though edi-software can last a long time).
As you understand, Bots is not setup that way, and I do not 'believe' in this type of software.

if you want to employ bots for this, configure it. Your setup will be quite simple, that would be no problem.
in your program: drop the edi-files, run bots, fetch the output.
(if you want it more fancy, set up a server that listens for incoming edi-files, calls bots and returns the results.)