PutData

First, we’ll let BCCL remember our credentials to BC and URL to avoid having to retype these parameters:

BCCL -w "http://bcserver:7047/BC/WS/CRONUS/Codeunit/bccl" -u demo -p jf394584jfefjg --remember

Now, we’ll create a simple file with a few new customers, in this let’s use csv:

Number,Name
"1000","Erik Hougaard"
"2000","Peter Hansson"
"3000","Mads Mathiesen"

Since there are more fields in the Customer table then the two we have in this file, we need a mapping file to link our fields to database fields. If you don’t specify a mapping file, you must supply a file with all the fields from the table.

BCCL -t mapping -s table=18 -o table18.mapping.json

First, we remove the field we don’t need and then we’ll activate all the validations.

{
  "Customer": [
    {
      "FieldNo": 1,
      "FieldName": "No.",
      "MappedName": "Number",
      "Validate": "true"
    },
    {
      "FieldNo": 2,
      "FieldName": "Name",
      "MappedName": "Name",
      "Validate": "true"
    }
  ],
  "ValidateOnInsert": "true",
  "ValidateOnModify": "true"
}

Now we call BCCL, with the putdata tasktype, specify the input file with -i customers.csv, if you forget to specify the -f parameter, BCCL will try to figure out the format from the filename. We specify the mapping file and the parameter table=18.

bccl -t putdata -i customers.csv -m table18.mapping.json -s table=18

The result is returned as json, tallying up the total operations:

{
  "Table": 18,
  "Inserted": 3,
  "Modified": 0
}

A quick look in BC find the three new customers:

If we remove the No. column from the mapping file, so there’s only one column mapping (even though there still two columns in the file)

{
  "Customer": [
    {
      "FieldNo": 2,
      "FieldName": "Name",
      "MappedName": "Name",
      "Validate": "true"
    }
  ],
  "ValidateOnInsert": "true",
  "ValidateOnModify": "true"
}

And run the import again:

bccl -t putdata -i customers.csv -m table18.mapping.json -s table=18

The result is three new customers, this time, customer number are created from the number series:

XML

If your file is XML, you need to supply the -r parameter, to tell BCCL where the record is located in the XML file. Example, if your XML is looking like this:

  
    12200
    Adatum Corporation
  
  
     .....

Then the parameter should -r /Customer/Record to tell BCCL that the Record structure under Customer is the repeating structure.

bccl -t putdata -i customers.xml -m table18.mapping.json -s table=18 -r /Customer/Record

Stub Records

BCCL can insert stub records in related tables, to fulfill relational requirements, read about stub records here.