Spec Value Search

InfoSphere® MDM enables you to customize spec search value capabilities with your own custom operators.

Before OSGi

Customizing required a change to the following configuration element entry:

/IBM/Product/SpecValueSearch/SpecValueSearchSQL/className

For additional information on adding custom comparison operators, see New comparison operator additions.

With OSGi

Customizing still requires a change to the pre-OSGi configuration entry, but in addition you must register the Spec Value Search implementation class as a common service, as illustrated in the following sample template blueprint definition:

<!-- common.service SpecValueSearch.<classname> -->
<service id="SpecValueSearch.myclass" interface="com.ibm.mdm.common.servicefactory.api.CommonServiceFactory">
	<service-properties>
		<entry key="common.service" value="SpecValueSearch.my.company.MySpecValueSearchSQL"/>
	</service-properties>
	<bean class="com.ibm.mdm.common.servicefactory.CommonServiceFactoryImpl">
		<argument type="java.lang.Class" value="com.ibm.mdm.common.spec.search.SpecValueSearchSQL"/>
		<argument type="java.lang.Class" value="my.company.MySpecValueSearchSQL" />			
		<argument ref="blueprintBundle"/>			
	</bean>
</service>

Important: The common.service service property entry value must be prefixed by SpecValueSearch.