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nabudaldah / EDI

Lightweight and versatile Electronic Data Interchange (EDI / EDIFACT) parser
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Open okproject opened 7 years ago

okproject commented 7 years ago

Hi.

Thank you for this freat library.

I need develop integration with Wayfair, they use EDI for integration.

Is that library enought to integrate system to Wayfair to another ?

At the other side,

  1. I can create an http call to some http services and i can get result as json or xml and i can process it.
  2. I can call soap services etc..

But in EDI where is the start point ? Can you inform me how can i create simple EDI call ? What is minimum requirements to create a call. Can you inform me please ?

As a summary, i want to create a method about "GetOrders" from order channels. How can i create this kind of call vai EDI, i am trying to get understood about it.

Thanks.

nabudaldah commented 7 years ago

Hi okproject,

Sorry for reacting late. Is it still relevant for me to help you out on this?

EDI are really text-files that can be transferred over any method. The good news is: there is no transfer method defined by the specs, it just a file-format. How any organization decided to transfer these EDI text-files is up to them. Mostly people use (s)FTP or something between organizations and simple file-shares within organizations.

Hope that helps. Best,

Nabi

okproject commented 7 years ago

Thank you very much for this helpful answer.

I tried to continue research it and i found something about it is really old protocol and its format really old and boring instead of object model :) But it is "standard" so many big company still use it; it means it will be in use for many years, it is hard to change system for some big companies.

Thanks again, now i have good idea about EDI.