Defining the imports element
The optional imports element provides a place to specify any plug-ins required by your function. Any plug-ins you specify must be written in the correlator plug-in API. The imports element can contain any number of import elements. Each import element must contain the following attributes:
library — Name of the file that contains the plug-in required by your function.
alias — Name of the plug-in in the
code element of the function definition file. When you write the EPL code that implements the function, you specify
#alias_value# as the name of the plug-in. When you use the function in a scenario, the Event Modeler replaces
#alias_value# with the name of the function in the specified library.
For example:
<imports>
<import library="TimeFormatPlugin" alias="timePlugin"</import>
</imports>
In the code element, you would specify something like the following:
return #timePlugin#.formatTime
