In the Designer, you can connect to backend systems using adapters. To make this much easier, you can create a connector that provides the needed configurations for the adapter. The Connector provides the data model, the Adapter performs the actual call to the outside system. The example above shows the connection to a REST service.
In the Designer, you can add connector operations to diagrams by simply dragging them from the service panel and dropping them on the canvas.
Configuring the Adapter Operation
Once a connector operation has been added to a diagram, it needs to be configured as a corresponding adapter.
| Select the newly added connector operation and switch to the Attributes panel. You can see the following information:
All this is generated and cannot be changed. | |||||||||
| Click Add Stereotype to define the selected operation as to be a corresponding adapter. | |||||||||
| Select the corresponding adapter, e.g. REST Adapter, from the list of available adapter stereotypes. | |||||||||
| The Attributes panel now shows the added adapter stereotype. Now you still need to configure the adapter. Expand the stereotype by clicking the arrow on the right. | |||||||||
| An adapter is configured via the attributes of the selected stereotype. For the REST Adapter these are e.g. Alias and Digest Algorithm. | |||||||||
| For many adapters, you need to configure an alias. Aliases specify the path to the related backend. You can
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