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Outbound operations

An operation is the action that an adapter can perform on the local file system during outbound processing. The name of the operation indicates the type of action that the adapter takes.

The adapter supports the following operations during outbound processing.

• Append operation
  The Append operation appends content to a specified file.
• Create operation
  The Create operation creates a file with the specified name. You can modify the file name by specifying different properties.

  For example, you can attach a sequence number to the file.

• Delete operation
  The Delete operation deletes a specified file.
• Exists operation
  The Exists operation checks to see whether a specified file exists.
• List operation
  The List operation lists the file names in the specified directory.
• Overwrite operation
  The Overwrite operation overwrites the specified file with the content specified in the request.
• Retrieve operation
  The Retrieve operation retrieves the content of the specified file and returns it in the form of a business object. During outbound processing, you can also delete and archive the file returned during the retrieve operation.

Outbound processing