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The Output Mappings section appears as follows in the Queries page:
It provides the following options:
Output type
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Use column numbers
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Escape non printable characters
Tick this option if the data in your database consists of characters that are not serializable to XML. Few examples are & < > " '. When you invoke services that access such data and produce responses, the sever throws errors. Ticking this option ensures that non-printable characters will be ignored when producing the responses.
Group by element
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Row name
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Row namespace
See Defining Namespaces.
XSLT path
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Query Result Export
When editing an output mapping, you can define query result export options. Query Request Export feature must be used in conjunction with boxcarring. It allows individual queries executed in a boxcarring session to communicate with each other. The concept is 'exporting' a specific result element so that the next calling query will get that result element as a query parameter. So, if you've two queries, namely, 'query1' and 'query2' that's executed sequentially in a boxcarring session, and if 'query1' has a specific result element and that element is exported with the name 'foo', then 'query2' also gets a query param named 'foo'. So when this boxcarring session is executed, the query1's exported value will be passed into query2 as an input parameter.
This feature is very useful in situations where the result of an earlier-executed query is required for the execution of a subsequent query (e.g. a newly created primay key).
The following figure shows how a result element can be declared to be exported with a given name when defining a query in a data service.
There are two export types that can be used.
- SCALAR : The single element value is exported. If there are multiple instances of this value, the last one will be exported.
- ARRAY : An array of values will be exported. Each occurrence of the value is added to an array and exported.
For a demonstration on the usage of export options, refer to Boxcarring Sample.