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Data Format Transformation

How can services interact with programs that communicate with different data formats?

A service may be incompatible with resources it needs to access due to data format disparity. Furthermore, a service consumer that communicates using a data format different from a target service will be incompatible and therefore unable to invoke the service. The Data Format Transformation pattern provides a design solution that introduces intermediary processing logic required to convert one data format to another.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The service consumer sends a message wherein data is formatted using XML. Service A is designed to receive messages with data formatted using JSON. The data format transformation logic invoked by the service API proxy converts the XML message into a JSON message, without making changes to the required data itself.