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Adrian Crum commented on OFBIZ-5410:
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I would like to limit the scope of this issue:
1. Support multiple file formats.
2. External data can be mapped to one or more OFBiz entities.
3. Support flat file formats only. (It appears the current code tries to
accommodate hierarchical external files, but that will complicate things
unnecessarily.)
4. Support data type conversion.
5. Support multiple character sets.
6. Support primary key generation during import.
The basic goal will be to do a good job of importing/exporting, but not try to
be all things to all people. Once the conversion is done, the receiving system
can process the data further if necessary - it is not the responsibility of the
datafile component to do complicated processing.
> External File Import/Export: A New Design
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> Key: OFBIZ-5410
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/OFBIZ-5410
> Project: OFBiz
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Adrian Crum
> Assignee: Adrian Crum
> Priority: Minor
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> Redesign the datafile component to make external file import/export easier
> and more reliable. Details are in the comments.
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