Oracle Integration Cloud: Building Integrations That Survive Production · Module 11 · Lookups, libraries and reuse
Editing a lookup safely
Lesson 111 of 175 · 2 min
LOOKUPS ARE LIVE: A CHANGE TAKES EFFECT ON THE NEXT RUN WITH NO ACTIVATION AND NO VERSION. The consequence, and the discipline that follows from it. That is the whole point of a lookup and it is also the entire risk. Everything else in OIC is versioned and activated — you edit a draft, you activate it, and the change is a deliberate act with a record. A lookup has none of that. Save it and the next instance uses the new value. SO A MISTYPED ROW IS A PRODUCTION CHANGE, IMMEDIATELY, MADE BY WHOEVER HAD THE CONSOLE OPEN. There is no draft, no version to compare against, no rollback, and — this is the part people do not expect — no record of what the value was before. The row simply reads differently now. THE DISCIPLINE THAT FOLLOWS IS THREE THINGS, and none of them is technical. EXPORT BEFORE…
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