Graphical message format builder
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsMihai Cristian Birloncea, Shelley Lau, Martin Leclerc, Alfred Chun Yang
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Abstract
A graphical message format builder facilitates a user in building message formats by using format elements from a format editor palette which are inserted into a message format definition in a graphical editing pane. Each format element is served as a building block of a message format which in turn is used to construct the message. A format hierarchy view allows a visualization of the data mapping to the message format to be seen.
Claims27
A method for graphically building a message format, the method comprising:
- receiving a message;
- extracting at least one format element from the message;
- building the message format using the at least one format element;
- graphically representing a physical appearance of the message format in a horizontal format, wherein the horizontal format comprises an accordion style container of format elements, wherein the accordion style container include plurality of sub-containers, wherein each sub-container is delimited on both sides of the horizontal format of the sub-container, and wherein the accordion style container are expandable and collapsible in a horizontal direction;
- expanding the accordion style containers or sub containers;
- and
- in response to the expanding, substituting each data field of the accordion style container or sub containers with a value.
A data processing system comprising:
- a bus system;
- a communications unit connected to the bus system;
- a memory connected to the bus system, wherein the memory includes a set of instructions;
- and
- a processing unit connected to the bus system, wherein the processing unit executes the set of instructions to
- receive a message;
- extract at least one format element from the message;
- build a message format using the at least one format element;
- graphically represent a physical appearance of the message format in a horizontal format, wherein the horizontal format comprises an accordion style container of format elements, wherein the accordion style container include plurality of sub-containers, wherein each sub-container is delimited on both sides of the horizontal format of the sub-container, and wherein the accordion style container are expandable and collapsible in a horizontal direction;
- expand the accordion style containers or sub containers;
- and
- in response to the expanding, substitute each data field of the accordion style container or sub containers with a value.
A computer program product comprising a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored therein instructions for graphically building a message format, the instructions, when executed on a computer, instruct the computer to perform the operations comprising:
- receiving a message;
- extracting at least one format element from the message;
- building the message format using the at least one format element;
- graphically representing a physical appearance of the message format in a horizontal format, wherein the horizontal format comprises an accordion style container of format elements, wherein the accordion style container include plurality of sub-containers, wherein each sub-container is delimited on both sides of the horizontal format of the sub-container, and wherein the accordion style container are expandable and collapsible in a horizontal direction;
- expanding the accordion style containers or sub containers;
- and
- in response to the expanding, substituting each data field of the accordion style container or sub containers with a value.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.