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Defining a flow processor
To define a flow processor, do the following:
1 Add the flow processor definition to the toolkit processors definition (dseproc.xml) file.
The following example defines a processor named processName.
<processor id="processName"
cleanEventsQueueOnSwitch="true|false"

context="processNameCtxt"implClass="myPackage.MyProcessorClass">
<state id="stateName" type="stateType"
typeIdInfo="stateTypeIdInfo">
<entryActions>
<actionTag actionAttribute1="value"
actionAttribute2="value"
context="contextName">
<conditions>
<cond1 onTrue="continue" onFalse="skipAction"/>
<cond2 onTrue="continue" onFalse="skipAllActions"/>
<cond3 onTrue="continue" onFalse="skipConditions"/>
<cond4 onTrue="continue" onFalse="abortProcess"/>
<cond5 onTrue="continue"
onFalse="execAndChangeState(stateId)"/>
<cond6 onTrue="continue"
onFalse="changeState(stateId)"/>
</conditions>
</actionTag>
</entryActions>
<transitions>
<transition id="eventId" propagateEvent="true|false"/>
<actions>
<actionTag actionAttribute1="value"
actionAttribute2="value">
<conditions>
<cond1 onTrue="continue" onFalse="skipAction"/>
<cond2 onTrue="changeState(stateId)"
onFalse="skipAction">
</conditions>
</actionTag>
</actions>
</transition>
</transitions>
</state>
...
<! more states>
<iniValue name="dataFieldPath" value="iniValueForDataField"
/>...
</processor>
In this definition, the value of the implClass attribute in the processor tag means that the toolkit instantiates the myPackage.MyProcessorClass to create the processor instance. The processor externalizer updates the instance with the attributes and subtags contained in this file.
2 In the toolkit context definition file, create a definition for the context that the processor uses to store data.
3 In the toolkit format definition file, create definitions for the formats used to move data into and out of the context.
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