The atg.endeca.index.schema.SchemaExporter class is responsible for generating schema configuration and submitting it to the Endeca Configuration Repository. (See Submitting the Records for information about this process.) The /atg/commerce/endeca/index/SchemaExporter component of this class examines the ProductCatalogOutputConfig definition file and generates a schema record for each specified property of a repository item type. The schema record indicates whether the property should be treated as a property or a dimension by Guided Search, whether it should be searchable, and the data type of the property or dimension.

Note, however, that these schema records are not in the format required by the CAS-based deployment template. Therefore, the /atg/endeca/index/ConfigImportDocumentSubmitter component converts the schema data to Configuration Import API objects before submitting it to the Endeca Configuration Repository. See the Document Submitter Components section for more information.