Functions supported by the integrator.io EDI parser

The integrator.io EDI parser supports the following functions:

• _ignore
• _ignoreIdentifier

_ignore

This is the flag that can be set at element level. If we set the flag, the respective element will not be reflected on the parsed json output.

Definition

{
        "required": true,
        "skipRowSuffix": true,
        "elements": [{
            "name": "BH",
            "value": "BH",
            "length": 2
        },
        {
            "name": "name",
            "value": "{{name}}",
            "length": 2,
            "ignore": true
        },
        {
            "name": "id",
            "value": "{{id}}",
            "length": 7
        }]
    }

Example

BH500B051820180105
Output
        {
            "id": "0B05182"
        }
Although we had a second element as "name" with length set to 2 which will result in "50" from the given content, since element has ignored the flag that entry is being ignored in the json.

_ignoreIdentifier

This is the flag we can set on a rule of a container if we cannot rely on the starting element as the identifier to recognise its repetition to gather them into an array structure.

Definition

{
            "name": "Generic fixed-width",
            "description": "Sample fixed width definition to test parser features",
            "version": 1,
            "format": "fixed",
            "fixed": {
                "rowSuffix": "~",
                "rowDelimiter": "\n",
                "paddingChar": "˙"
            },
            "rules": [{
                "name": "file Header",
                "required": true,
                "elements": [{
                    "name": "HeaderRow",
                    "value": "HMAPIDCOMP",
                    "length": 10,
                    "ignore": true
                }],
                "children": [{
                    "name": "data",
                    "description": "This is a container",
                    "container": "true",
                    "required": true,
                    "maxOccurrence": 5,
                    "children": [{
                        "required": true,
                        "skipRowSuffix": true,
                        "elements": [{
                            "name": "BH",
                            "value": "BH",
                            "length": 2
                        },
                        {
                            "name": "name",
                            "value": "{{name}}",
                            "length": 2,
                            "ignore": true
                        },
                        {
                            "name": "id",
                            "value": "{{id}}",
                            "length": 7
                        }],
                        "children": [{
                            "name": "items",
                            "required": true,
                            "maxOccurrence": 100,
                            "container": true,
                            "children": [{
                                "required": true,
                                "skipRowSuffix": true,
                                "ignoreIdentifier": true,
                                "elements": [{
                                        "name": "Id",
                                        "value": "02",
                                        "length": 3
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "name": "id",
                                        "value": "{{id}}",
                                        "length": 4
                                    },
                                    {
                                        "name": "descr",
                                        "value": "{{qty}}",
                                        "length": 4
                                    }
                                ]
                            }]
                        }],
                        "closeRule": {
                            "required": true,
                            "skipRowSuffix": true,
                            "elements": [{
                                    "name": "BT",
                                    "value": "BT",
                                    "length": 2
                                },
                                {
                                    "name": "qty",
                                    "value": "{{qty}}",
                                    "length": 2
                                }
                            ]
                        }
                    }]
                }],
                "closeRule": {
                    "required": true,
                    "elements": [{
                        "name": "T",
                        "value": "T",
                        "length": 1
                    }]
                }
            }]
        }

Example
HMAPIDCOMP120228962120180105010520180005                             BH500B051820180105   001500B0518
002500B0518
003500B051
010500B0518
011500B0518
012500B0518
BT060B05180150864900
In this kind of fixed-width file we cannot rely on starting tags to establish our container rule, for that purpose we have introduced this flag.      

Output
        { "data": [
            { 
                "id": "0B05182",
                "items": [
                    {
                        "Id": "001",
                        "id": "500B",
                        "descr": "0518"
                    },
                    {
                        "Id": "002",
                        "id": "500B",
                        "descr": "0518",
                    },
                    {
                        "Id": "003",
                        "id": "500B",
                        "descr": "0518"
                    },
                    { 
                        "Id": "010",
                        "id": "500B",
                        "descr": "0518"
                    },
                    { 
                        "Id": "011",
                        "id": "500B",
                        "descr": "0518"
                    },
                    {
                        "Id": "012",
                        "id": "500B",
                        "descr": "0518"
                    }
                ],
                "qty": "06" }
            ]
        }