EDIFACTWriter Configuration

The component accepts one or more of the following configuration settings. Configuration settings are similar in functionality to properties, but they are rarely used. In order to avoid "polluting" the property namespace of the component, access to these internal properties is provided through the Config method.

EDIWriter Configuration Settings

CloseStreamAfterInterchange: Controls when the output stream is closed.

If true, the component will close the output stream when CreateInterchangeFooter is called. If false, the stream is left open and Flush must be called to ensure all output has been written to the stream. The default value is false.

DontUseUNA: Disables automatic generation of UNA segment.

If true, no Service String Advice (UNA) segment will be generated for EDIFACT interchanges. The default value is false.

EdifactSyntaxVersion: Changes the syntax version used for EDIFACT control segments.

Can be a number from 1 to 4. The default value is 1.

Encoding: The character encoding to be applied when reading and writing data.

If the data contains non-ASCII characters this setting should be specified so characters are properly preserved. This value should be set to a valid character set such as "UTF-8" or "ISO-8859-1".

ComponentDelimiter: The delimiter character to use to separate components.

When set, this changes the default delimiter to use to separate components within a data element. The default value depends on the EDI specification being used.

ElementDelimiter: The delimiter character to use to separate data elements.

When set, this changes the default delimiter to use to separate data elements within a segment. The default value depends on the EDI specification being used.

ReleaseChar: The character to use to escape delimiters within values.

When set, this changes the default escape character. The default value depends on the EDI specification being used.

RepetitionChar: The repetition character.

When set, this changes the default repetition character. The default value depends on the EDI specification being used.

SegmentDelimiter: The delimiter character to use to separate segments.

When set, this changes the default delimiter to use to separate segments within an EDI document. The default value depends on the EDI specification being used.

TransactionOnly: Ignores interchange and functional group validation, allowing you to build the transaction body.

When set to true, interchange and functional group headers will not be required. This allows building of the transaction level of an EDIFact document without specifying a document type.

StrictSchemaValidation: Specifies the behavior during schema validation.

This setting specifies what happens when performing schema validation and a validation warning occurs. By default this value is set to 1 (Warn) and the Warning event will fire, but processing will not stop. See the WarnCode parameter list in the Warning event for details about possible validation warnings. Possible values for this setting are:


0 (Ignore)	All validation warnings will be ignored. Warning will not fire with warnings.
1 (Warn - default)	The Warning event will fire with all validation warnings.
1 (Error)	All validation warnings are treated as errors and will cause an exception. Processing will stop immediately.

Base Configuration Settings


	GUIAvailable: Tells the component whether or not a message loop is available for processing events. In a GUI-based application, long-running blocking operations may cause the application to stop responding to input until the operation returns. The component will attempt to discover whether or not the application has a message loop and, if one is discovered, it will process events in that message loop during any such blocking operation. In some non-GUI applications an invalid message loop may be discovered that will result in errant behavior. In these cases, setting GuiAvailable to false will ensure that the component does not attempt to process external events.
	UseBackgroundThread: Whether threads created by the component are background threads. If set to True, when the component creates a thread the thread's IsBackground property will be explicitly set to True. By default this setting is False.
	UseManagedSecurityAPI: Tells the component whether or not to use the system security libraries or a managed implementation. By default the component will use the system security libraries to perform cryptographic functions. This means calls to unmanaged code will be made. In certain environments this is not desirable. To use a completely managed security implementation set this setting to True. Setting this to True tells the component to use the internal managed implementation instead of using the system's security API. Note that when this value is set the product's system dll is no longer required as a reference, as all unmanaged code is stored in this file.