Component Template Example

The create a new API Endpoint from a template, we must consider the following:

• What makes the new endpoint?

• What should be different from the original?

• How does it differ from the other end points?

The first and most important thing ist the endpoint' name: the new endpoint is no longer getContact but it should be getAccount. If you chose smart copy some renaming must be applied the get a getAccount.

Now, imagine you could create your templates with placeholders, like that:

The template DataSet

Templates contain placeholders ${EndpointName}, and the question is: where do the values for these placeholder come from when the new components are created?

1. Create a directory in your BC workspace: Template02

2. Create a dataSet.json file with the following content: { "EndpointName" : "getAccount" }

3. Run BoomiConsole COMP SmartCopy and specify the working directory and the dataSet:

bc comp SmartCopy 
   /wd Template02 
   /d dataSet.json 
   /c 77735e3d-..,36595f0b-..,5e49233d-.,b6354ab4-.. 

Et voilá, you see four new components created from our template with all placeholders replaced to getAccount .

Template components

I recommend creating a components.txt file that contains the template's component ids (see Arguments in a file).

The command changes to

bc comp SmartCopy 
   /wd Template02 
   /d dataSet.json 
   @components.txt

Next steps

If you want to create another getAddress endpoint, simply edit the dataSet.json to { "EndpointName" : "getAddress" }, run the command and you are done!