TranslationRules - skilchen/bots GitHub Wiki

What translation when?

Bots figures out what translation to use via the translation rules.
Best is to think of the translation rules as a 'lookup' table:

look-up with (from-editype, from-messagetype, alt, frompartner and topartner) to find mappingscript, to-editype and to-messagetype

How the input values for the look-up are determined:

  1. editype

    • configured in the route
    • if you configure editype=mailbag, bots will figure out if editype is x12, edifact or tradacoms.

  2. messagetype can be:

    • configured in the route, eg for editype csv
    • for edifact, x12 and tradacoms: bots figures out the detailed messagetype. Example:
      • in route: editype: edifact, messagetype: edifact
      • in incoming edi file bots finds detail messagetype 'ORDERSD96AUN'.

  3. frompartner can be:

    • configured in the route
    • determined by the grammar using QUERIES

  4. topartner can be:

    • configured in the route
    • determined by the grammar using QUERIES

  5. alt can be:

Notes:

  • For frompartner and topartner: bots finds the most specific translation.
    • Eg example with 2 translation rules:
      • fromeditype = edifact, frommessagetype = ORDERSD96AUNEAN008
      • fromeditype = edifact, frommessagetype = ORDERSD96AUNEAN008, frompartner=RETAILERX
    • If bots receives an ORDERS message from RETAILERX, the 2nd translation is used.
    • For other partners the first translation is used.

for alt-translations: only find the translation with that specific 'alt'.