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Verbs
A verb is a property of a business graph.
If the data object being processed by the adapter has no business graph, there will be no verb.
The AppplyChanges function, when passed a business graph, can perform either an after-image function or a delta update. If the verb is populated, the adapter will perform the operation indicated by the verb. If no verb is present, the change summary will be used to perform a delta update.
When encountering a delta business object, a component can introspect the change summary to determine what actually occurred.