Advanced Customization — Implementing Post and Pre Converters
When to Write Pre or Post Converters
• When you need to override behavior before the conversion or after the conversion.
• When you need to modify the source and target model before or after, the conversion from one format to another.
• Doing this can be considered as data tuning.
Extend wt.ixb.step.STEPConverter interface
• Source model and target model are passed to pre and post converters APIs.
• Implementation of the interface can change the models that are used in converters.
• Use EDM SDK APIs to change the source model and target model.
• For more information see the website of the EXPRESS Data Manager.
Adding the service.properties entry for the delegate
In IXDocumentDelegateSTEP-service.properties.xconf :
<Service context="default" name="="wt.ixb.step.STEPConverter">
<Option serviceClass=“<your implementation>" requestor="= "java.lang.Object"
selector=“<selector name>" cardinality="duplicate"/>
</Service>
• Update the following property in stepdex.xconf to change converter selector: wt.stepdex.converter.selector=<selector>