Oracle Integration Cloud: Building Integrations That Survive Production · Module 5 · Mappings and transformations
What breaks: five mapping failures
Lesson 57 of 175 · 2 min
Five mapping failures, and not one of them produces an error. ONE: AN OPTIONAL FIELD LEFT UNMAPPED. The target defaults it and the record is created carrying a value nobody chose. A successful run, a wrong record, and it is wrong on every record the integration ever creates. Lesson 3. TWO: A LOOP THAT EMITTED ONE ROW. Forty lines in, one line out. The invoice exists and is short, and the totals are wrong by an amount nobody notices until a reconciliation. Lesson 4. THREE: A DATE SHIFTED BY A ZONE. Right for most of the year, a day out for the rest. The tell is a defect that appears in spring and vanishes in autumn, which is why it is misdiagnosed. Lesson 7. FOUR: A ROUNDED AMOUNT. Or truncated, or scaled, or read as the wrong monetary unit. Invisible per record and material per month, and the hundred-times version…
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In this module: Module 5 · Mappings and transformations
- 1What a mapping really isFree preview
- 2The mapper, practically
- 3Required, optional and the empty element
- 4Repeating elements and loops
- 5Conditional mapping
- 6Functions: strings, numbers and dates
- 7Dates and time zones, carefully
- 8Numbers, precision and currency
- 9Lookups inside a mapping
- 10Testing a mapping with real data
- 11Namespaces, and the errors they cause
- 12Keeping a mapping maintainable
- 13What breaks: five mapping failures
- 14Lab briefing · Map two schemas that disagree