[progress Communities] [progress Openedge Abl] Transient Entities And Associations

[jan@nimblecg.com]

Currently Corticon only has transient attributes. Frequently I do have a need to have entities and associations that are only for internal use in the rules/ruleflow. So I think it would be helpful if we can add entities and associations in the rules that will never be a part of the response, nor can the be a part of the request. A use case would be to have an entity called "Parameters" where you can define attribute that define limits for tests (such as age < parameter.ageLimit) and where you create and initialize the entity and attributes in the flow. Right now if you have such an entity in the vocabulary, you can make all the attributes transient but the entity shows up in the wsdl, confusing integrator since you have entities with no attributes.

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