Submit Types

The submit types are as follow:

persistent

The operation is applied to the persistent part of each RD in the database. When an RD is retrieved from the database, or indexed, any persistent fields take precedence over non persistent fields. This allows you to manually edit the fields of an RD without having to worry that your edits will be lost the next time the RD is submitted by the robot, for example.

non-persistent

This is the default type. Data is normally added as non-persistent data. Note that RDs are only indexed and searchable if they have a non-empty non-persistent component.

merged

This is the default for retrieval. When data is retrieved, the persistent and non-persistent fields are merged together, with the persistent fields taking precedence over the non-persistent fields. You can view this as the persistent fields ”covering’ the non-persistent fields. You can also retrieve just the ”persistent’ fields, or just the ”non persistent’ fields.