Generic Business Object

The Extensibility Framework is independent of the underlying data model. Data is represented by generic business objects; the generic business object (BO) is an abstraction introduced on top of the currently supported OData data model.

The generic business object has a type and a unique identifier, and exposes APIs for assigning key-value pairs; additionally, you can query a business object’s state, which can be one of:

Transient – exists only on the client, has never been persisted.
Persistent – exists in the database, but has not been modified on the client.
Dirty – has been modified on the client, but the changes have not yet been committed to the database.

Generic business objects also provide undo management capabilities.

The MAFSDMDataSourceAdapter defines the OData-specific MAFSDMBO class, which inherits from the MAFGenericBO. If you implement a custom datasource adapter, you must also implement a custom MAFGenericBO specialization, and convert the data model to the generic object format.