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A project is a container for HCL Link artifacts.
Schemas
Use the schema designer to define, modify, and view schemas. A schema describes the syntax, structure, and semantics of your data.
Type properties
Basic type properties
Terminator

Projects
A project is a container for HCL Link artifacts.
- Flows
  This documentation describes how Flows can be run from REST API, listeners, or they can be scheduled.
- Maps
  Maps define input and output specifications and mapping rules for data transformation.
- Schemas
  Use the schema designer to define, modify, and view schemas. A schema describes the syntax, structure, and semantics of your data.
  - About schemas
    A schema defines the contents of at least one input that you intend to map or one output you intend to map.
  - Subtypes
  - Schema hierarchy
  - Defining data
  - Objects, types, and classes
  - Testing part of a schema
    You can test a schema by generating test data for an item or a group. The schema designer creates source and compiled maps that generate and validate the test data. The test-data-generation map automatically runs and produces a text file with the sample data. After that, the test-data-validation map automatically runs on the sample data file.
  - Type properties
  - Item restrictions
  - Components
  - Partitioning
  - Type inheritance
  - Native XML schema support
    HCL Link provides Native XML schema support.
  - Native JSON schema support
    This documentation describes the Native JSON schema support.
  - Error detection
  - Error recovery
  - Schema analyzer
  - Distinguishable objects
  - Return codes and error messages
- Connections and Actions
  This documentation describes connections and actions.
- Files
  Files are used in various places within HCL Link. HCL Link allows files to be uploaded to the HCL Linkserver.

Terminator

A terminator is a syntax object that appears at the end of a data object. The terminator becomes part of the data type definition.

None: There are no terminators.
Literal: A constant value. Expand the Terminator property to define the literal terminator Value.
Variable: Allow for possible values. Expand the Terminator property to define the variable terminator Default, Item, and Find properties.

For example, a carriage return/linefeed (CR/LF) at the end of a record is the record's terminator.

Generally, if the data ends with a given syntax object, you should define a literal terminator. For example, it is very common to define a CR/LF as a terminator of a record when you know that the record always ends with a CR/LF, regardless of where the record appears.