Process Plan Classes
The following classes create the GetProcessPlan RPC output:
BasicESIRenderer
This is the abstract class implementing the interface ESIRenderer and is extended by all the process plan renderer classes provided by ESI services. See section BasicESIRenderer for more information on BasicESIRenderer.
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Each of the process plan renderer classes described below is an extension of the abstract class BasicESIRenderer, unless explicitly stated otherwise.
ESIProcessPlanRenderer
This class extends the abstract base class BasicESIRenderer, thereby inheriting the capabilities of that class. The ESIProcessPlanRenderer class is intended to be extended by customizers. It has several attributes that are accessible to subclasses in read-only mode. The attributes have protected getter methods. Because the renderer state is expected to be established by the setData() method, the attributes do not have setter methods.
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The ESIProcessPlanRenderer class is instantiated and used (i) upon releasing a process plan in object-centric mode (ii) by an ESIWTChangeOrder2Renderer instance when the Change Notice being rendered has a process plan associated to it (iii) by an ESIPromotionRequestRenderer instance when the promotion request being rendered holds a process plan as a promotable or (iv) by any of the following renderer instances for rendering the standard procedures associated with a process plan, sequence or an operation respectively– ESIProcessPlanRenderer, ESISequenceRenderer, ESIOperationRenderer.
Refer to the Windchill release specific Java documentation for more details on available methods in the class
ESIProcessPlanHeaderRenderer
It extends the abstract base class BasicESIRenderer, thereby inheriting the capabilities of that class. The ESIProcessPlanHeaderRenderer class is intended to be extended by customizers. It has several attributes that are accessible to subclasses in read-only mode. The attributes have protected getter methods. Because the renderer state is expected to be established by the setData() method, the attributes do not have setter methods.
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The ESIProcessPlanHeaderRenderer class is instantiated and used by an ESIProcessPlanRenderer instance, for rendering the header of the process plan.
Refer to the Windchill release specific Java documentation for more details on available methods in the class
ESIPartToProcessPlanLinkRenderer
It extends the abstract class BasicESIRenderer and is instantiated and used by an ESIProcessPlanRenderer instance, for rendering the MPMPartToProcessPlanLink objects that link a process plan to its parts. Besides fetching the MPMPartToProcessPlanLink attributes and mapping them to the output as required, this renderer stores the associated parts in a collection. The ESIProcessPlanRenderer instance looks up this collection and renders the parts in the collection using an appropriate renderer. For Windchill version 11.0 onwards this renderer will also render link that associate ProcessPlan with Resource structure associated to process using the Process Plan.
Refer to the Windchill release specific Java documentation for more details on available methods in the class
ESIStandardProcedureLinkRenderer
It extends BasicESIRenderer, and is instantiated and used by an ESIProcessPlanRenderer instance, for rendering the MPMStandardProcedureLink objects that link a process plan to its standard procedures. Besides fetching the MPMStandardProcedureLink attributes and mapping them to the output as required, this renderer stores the associated standard procedures in a collection. The ESIProcessPlanRenderer instance looks up this collection and renders the standard procedures in the collection using an appropriate renderer.
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A standard procedure is actually an MPMProcessPlan instance, and is thus rendered using an instance of ESIProcessPlanRenderer. Also, two other renderers make use of the ESIStandardProcedureLinkRenderer – ESISequenceRenderer and ESIOperationRenderer, for rendering the MPMStandardProcedureLink objects that link a sequence or an operation to its standard procedures respectively. Refer to the Windchill release specific Java documentation for more details on available methods in the class
ESISequenceUsageLinkRenderer
This class is instantiated and used by an ESIProcessPlanRenderer instance for rendering the MPMSequenceUsageLink objects that link a process plan to its sequences. Besides fetching the MPMSequenceUsageLink attributes and mapping them to the output as required, it stores the associated sequences in a collection. The ESIProcessPlanRenderer instance looks up the sequences in this collection and renders them using an appropriate renderer.
Refer to the Windchill release specific Java documentation for more details on available methods in the class
ESIOperationUsageLinkRenderer
This class is instantiated and used by an ESIProcessPlanRenderer instance, for rendering the MPMOperationUsageLink objects associated with the process plan being rendered. Besides fetching the MPMOperationUsageLink attributes and mapping them to the output as required, it stores the associated operations in a collection. The ESIProcessPlanRenderer instance looks up the operations in this collection and renders them using an appropriate renderer.
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This renderer may also be used by an ESIOperationRenderer instance, for rendering the MPMOperationUsageLink objects associated with the operation being rendered. In such a case, the sub-operations associated with the operation are stored in a certain collection, which is then processed by an appropriate renderer as part of the downstream processing. Refer to the Windchill release specific Java documentation for more details on available methods in the class
ESIOperationRenderer
This class is instantiated and used by an ESIProcessPlanRenderer instance for rendering the operations associated with a process plan. The ESIOperationRenderer instance in turn uses several other renderers for rendering the various links and objects associated to the operation being rendered, which are described in subsequent sections.
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The operations that are rendered by this renderer are typically the ones that are fetched and stored in the HashSet named operations by the ESIOperationUsageLinkRenderer instance. Refer to the Windchill release specific Java documentation for more details on available methods in the class
ESISequenceRenderer
This class is instantiated and used by an ESIProcessPlanRenderer instance for rendering the sequences associated with a process plan. The ESISequenceRenderer instance in turn uses several other renderers for rendering the various links and objects associated to the sequence being rendered, which are described in subsequent sections.
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The sequences that are rendered by this renderer are typically the ones that are fetched and stored in the HashSet named sequences by the ESISequenceUsageLinkRenderer instance. Refer to the Windchill release specific Java documentation for more details on available methods in the class
ESIWorkInstructionRenderer
It is instantiated and used by an ESIOperationRenderer instance for rendering the work instructions associated with the operation being rendered.
Refer to the Windchill release specific Java documentation for more details on available methods in the class
ESIOperationToPartLinkRenderer
This class is instantiated and used by an ESIOperationRenderer instance for rendering the MPMOperationToPartLink objects associated with the operation being rendered.
Refer to the Windchill release specific Java documentation for more details on available methods in the class
ESIOperatedOnPartLinkRenderer
This class is instantiated and used by an ESIOperationRenderer instance for rendering the MPMOperationToOperatedPartLink objects associated to the operation being rendered. Besides fetching the MPMOperationToOperatedPartLink attributes and mapping them to the output as required, it stores the associated part master objects in a collection. The ESIProcessPlanRenderer instance looks up the objects in this collection, fetches the corresponding part iterations and renders them using an appropriate renderer.
Refer to the Windchill release specific Java documentation for more details on available methods in the class
ESIOperationConsumableResourceRenderer
It is instantiated and used by an ESIOperationRenderer instance for rendering the MPMOperationToConsumableLink objects associated to the operation being rendered. Besides fetching the MPMOperationToConsumableLink attributes and mapping them to the output as required, it stores the associated consumable resources in a collection. The ESIOperationRenderer instance looks up the objects in this collection, and renders them using an appropriate renderer.
Refer to the Windchill release specific Java documentation for more details on available methods in the class
ESIOperationWorkCenterRenderer
It is instantiated and used by an ESIOperationRenderer instance for rendering the MPMOperationToWorkCenterLink objects associated to the operation being rendered.
Refer to the Windchill release specific Java documentation for more details on available methods in the class
ESIAlternateUnitOfMeasureRenderer
This class is instantiated and used by certain renderers for rendering the Alternate Unit of Measure information associated with each of the following types of objects – WTPartMaster, MPMProcessPlanMaster, MPMSequenceMaster, MPMOperationMaster, MPMToolingMaster, MPMProcessMaterialMaster and MPMSkillMaster. The renderers that use this class are ESIWTPartRenderer, ESIProcessPlanHeaderRenderer, ESISequenceUsageLinkRenderer, ESIOperationUsageLinkRenderer, ESIToolingRenderer, ESIProcessMaterialRenderer and ESISkillRenderer respectively. See the Publishing Resources section for more information on the ESIToolingRenderer, ESIProcessMaterialRenderer and ESISkillRenderer.
The type of master object that holds the Alternate Unit of Measure information. The values that this attribute will be set to for various object types are as follows:
com.ptc.windchill.esi.Part – WTPartMaster
com.ptc.windchill.esi.mpml.ProcessPlan – MPMProcessPlanMaster
com.ptc.windchill.esi.mpml.Sequence - MPMSequenceMaster
com.ptc.windchill.esi.mpml.Operation – MPMOperationMaster
com.ptc.windchill.esi.mpml.Tooling – MPMToolingMaster
com.ptc.windchill.esi.mpml.ProcessMaterial – MPMProcessMaterialMaster
com.ptc.windchill.esi.mpml.Skill – MPMSkillMaster
Refer to the Windchill release specific Java documentation for more details on available methods in the class.
ESIDocumentsRenderer
This class is instantiated and used by each of the following renderers for rendering the documents associated with a process plan, a sequence, an operation, a tooling, a process material or a skill respectively – ESIProcessPlanRenderer, ESISequenceRenderer, ESIOperationRenderer, ESIToolingRenderer, ESIProcessMaterialRenderer and ESISkillRenderer. See the Publishing Documents section for more information on the class ESIDocumentsRenderer and other related information.
ESIControlCharacteristicRenderer
This class is instantiated and used by the part, process plan and operation renderers for rendering the control characteristics (and their model items) associated to a part, to a process plan or to an operation respectively. The class extends BasicESIRenderer and resides in the package com.ptc.windchill.esi.mpml.pmi.
Refer to the Windchill release specific Java documentation for more details on available methods in the class.
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ESI services make use of an ESIControlCharacteristicRenderer instance for rendering both control characteristics and the corresponding model items. In other words, there is no separate renderer for rendering model items.
ESIQualityLinkRenderer
This class extends BasicESIRenderer and resides in the package com.ptc.windchill.esi.mpml.pmi. It is instantiated and used by the control characteristic renderer for rendering the quality links that associate a part, a process plan or an operation to the control characteristics being rendered.
Refer to the Windchill release specific Java documentation for more details on available methods in the class
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ESI Services make use of an ESIStandardCCLinkRenderer instance for processing standard control characteristic links that associate a process plan or an operation to a standard control characteristic.
MPMLUtility
This class resides in the package com.ptc.windchill.esi.mpml and provides a number of utility (or helper) APIs for rendering manufacturing objects. For example, it provides compareXXX() APIs that compare any two given iterations of business objects (such as parts, process plans, operations or sequences) and return the result (consisting of difference information pertaining to links and their attributes) in a HashMap.
This class is not meant to be extended by customizers. For more information on the compareXXX() (and various other) APIs of this class and their descriptions, refer to the Javadoc.
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