Bookshelf v7.5: Transcode Business Service

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Transcode Business Service

In addition to the improvements to the current Siebel eBusiness Application Integration (eAI) components, Siebel eBusiness Applications offer the Transcode business service that you can use in your workflow processes to validate and convert data from one character set encoding to another. For a list of supported character set encodings, see System Requirements and Supported Platforms. For information on how business services handle character conversion errors, see Character Conversion Error Handling.

The Transcode business service supports two methods:

Validate. This method confirms the input property set hierarchy or the <value> of the input property set.


Method Argument	Required	Description
ValidationMode	Yes	If set to Value then only the <value> is validated. Otherwise, the properties are validated for the entire hierarchy.
TargetEncoding	Yes	For the proper language-independent code parameter values, see System Requirements and Supported Platforms.
SourceEncoding	No	This argument is required when ValidationMode is set to Value and the input <value> contains binary data. This implies conversion from binary data in SourceEncoding to binary data in TargetEncoding. For the proper language-independent code parameter values, see System Requirements and Supported Platforms.

Convert. Converts the <value> in the input property set to the target encoding in the output.


Method Argument	Required	Description
ConversionMode	Yes	Values can be StringToEncoding, EncodingToString, or EncodingToEncoding.
TargetEncoding	Yes	Required for StringToEncoding and EncodingToEncoding modes. For the proper language-independent code parameter values, see System Requirements and Supported Platforms.
SourceEncoding	No	Required for EncodingToString mode. For the proper language-independent code parameter values, see System Requirements and Supported Platforms.

NOTE: To ignore conversion errors, specify IgnoreConversionErrors in the method argument.

Language-Independent Code Parameter Values

For information on language-independent code parameter values, see System Requirements and Supported Platforms.