On 13 Sep 11:50, Jan Grasnick | Grasbauer UG wrote: > Am 12.09.2014 17:16, schrieb Dominique Chabord: > > Le 12/09/2014 16:52, Axel Braun a écrit :> > > > >> I would avoid EDI as much as I could. > > EDI is the only official approach to do it > > We have to deal with such requests in real life and the two statements > above are right: it's a standard and a p.i.t.a as well. So for example > we have one customer which could get his delivery requests via EDI - but > as protocol Odette File Transfer Protocol is used. This requires a > dedicated hardware setup which is expensive and very old fashioned. But > this is usual in all communication related to Volkswagen, because > everything is set up since ages and every change needs expert groups and > millions of meetings. So they implemented a so called WEB-EDI for > suppliers without the needed infrastructure which is nothing more than a > web frontend to get and put some data into a SAP based system. > > But it would be great if Tryton supports a subset of EDI. The first what > we have to care about is that there is no EDI - there are a lot of > standards and protocols - SWIFT in Banking, openTrans for interchanging > documents, ANSI ASC in America, VDA in German automotive industries but > ODETTE in France .... As protocols everything from HTTP to X.400 is > used. In fact EDI means nothing if you don't know the needed structure > of the message and the used protocols. > > So possibly we talk about implementing EDIFACT and there from a subset > of service messages which are covering the concepts of the core modules.
Indeed for me, we need first an API inside Tryton to manage «messages»
which means:
- Interface for reception which could be plugged with any kind of protocol
- Interface for processing probably similar to the [1]
- Interface for generating message (with trigger)
- Interface for sending message
> Possibly we should have have a talk about this issue at Unconferences -
> I could ask at HTWK if there is someone who can give us a general
> overview about this ....
I don't doubt a minute there will be hard discussion about it :-)
[1] http://hg.tryton.org/modules/account_payment_sepa/rev/81f4ed8cd809
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