CentraSite Documentation : Getting Started with CentraSite : Implementation Concepts : Customizing Your Asset Catalog : Creating Custom Types : Creating Custom Asset Types that can be Imported from an Input File
Creating Custom Asset Types that can be Imported from an Input File
The CentraSite Control user interface enables users to add assets to the registry in the following ways:
*Users can create an asset “from scratch,” meaning that they manually assign values to the asset's attributes in the CentraSite Control and CentraSite Business UI user interfaces.
*Users can import an asset from an archive file (a file that contains objects that have been exported from an instance of CentraSite).
*Users can import the asset from an input file. To add an asset in this way, CentraSite must be configured with an “importer” that can read the input file and generate an instance of the specified asset type from it.
CentraSite includes importers for the following types of assets:
Type of Asset
Required Input File
Web Service
Web Services Description Language (WSDL) file
REST Service
*RESTful API Modeling Language (RAML) file
*JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file
*Yet Another Markup Language (YAML) file
OData Service
Entity Data Model (EDMX) file
XML Schema
XML Schema Definition (XSD) file
Business Process
Business Process Execution Language (BPEL) file
If you want your users to be able to generate an instance of a custom asset type from an input file, you must build a custom importer and register it in CentraSite. You can find information about developing a custom importer in the CentraSite Administrator’s Guide.
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