Pipe Interfaces

When creating the custom pipe, you implement the following interfaces:

• IPipe - base publishing point pipe interface. To implement the interface, you must implement the following methods:

  • GetDefaultSettings - gets the default settings.

  • Initialize - creates a pipe instance and passes the pipe settings to it.

  • CanProcessItem - indicates if the pipe can process an item when pushing the data.

  • GetPipeSettingsShortDescription - gets the pipe settings short description.

  • CleanUp - cleans up the stored items in the publishing point.

  • GetConvertedItemsForMapping - applies the mappings.

• IPushPipe - base push pipe interface. To implement the IPushPipe interface, you must implement the PushData method. The PushData method pushes the data to the publishing point.

• IPullPipe - base pull pipe interface. To implement the IPullPipe interface, you must implement the GetData method. The GetData method gets the data from the publishing point.

• IInboundPipe - base inbound pipe interface. To implement the IInboundPipe interface, you must implement the ToPublishingPoint method. The ToPublishingPoint method transfers the data to the publishing point.

• IOutboundPipe - base outbound pipe interface. You do not need to implement any method to implement the IOutboundPipe interface.