Resource Methods

Resource methods write information from Waveset into the external resource.

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Note –

You must be familiar with the resource to write customized methods.

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You categorize resource methods by task. When developing your own custom adapters, you must determine which categories your adapter needs to meet the goals of your development. For example,

• Is your adapter going to be a standard or an Active Sync-enabled adapter?

• Will the first phase of your deployment support password reset only?

How you answer these questions determines which resource methods must be completed.

The following table describes resource methods categories. (Additional information about each functional category is discussed later in this chapter.)

Table 10–10 Resource Methods Categories

Category	Description
Basic	Provide the basic methods for connecting to the resource and performing simple actions
Bulk operations	Provide bulk operations to get all the users from the resource
Active Sync	Provides the methods to schedule the adapter.
Object management	Provides the methods to manage groups and organizations on your resources. Helps define the resource, but is not easily modified by administrators.

In Active Sync-enabled adapters, resource methods

• Create a feed from the resource into Waveset. Presents methods that search the resource for changes or receive updates. To write these methods, you must understand how to register or search for changes on the resource, and communicate with the resource.

• Run update operations in the Waveset repository by performing the feed from the resource into Waveset.