Thanks, Karl. Got it working.

On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 5:01 PM, Karl Wright <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi Mark,
>
> When ManifoldCF initially creates a connection, it creates it with an
> empty ConfigParams() object.  In the UI, that means that if you see *no*
> parameter of the kind you are looking for, you should treat it as if it is
> whatever default value you choose.
>
> You are expected to pass the modified data from your ConfigParams object
> around in HTML form data.  You "scatter" the data using the
> outputConfigurationBody() method, and the processConfigurationPost() method
> will be called to collect the data (possibly changed) back into a
> ConfigParams object again.  Note that at the time the
> processConfigurationPost() method is called, whatever was last saved for
> the connection's configuration information initially populates the
> ConfigParams object passed  to the post method, so you will want to
> overwrite those.
>
> Hope this helps.
> Karl
>
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Mark Libucha <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm writing an output connector and can't figure out how to get any
>> parameter values other than the default values to display in the webapp.
>>
>> What is the flow from the agent? When I bring up my connector's tab in
>> the Edit Job page, only the output connector's connect() method is being
>> called into by the agent, but it's *passing* the config parameters, not
>> asking for them.
>>
>> Where does the agent get them from to begin with? I want to be able to
>> set some of the parameters dynamically.
>>
>> Hope that makes sense.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Mark
>>
>>
>

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