Smart Mastering with Libraries

The Smart Mastering Core project includes a set of XQuery libraries. Once you have included the core in your own project and run gradle mlDeploy, these libraries will be available to your project. Note that although they are written in XQuery, they can be imported into JavaScript code as well.

Smart Mastering functionality consists of configuration-driven mastering and merging, as well as services to retrieve history for documents or individual properties within merged documents. This page will show you how to access this functionality using the libraries.

The XQuery libraries are structured to separate the API from the implementation. While it’s possible the API will undergo some changes, it is intended to be relatively stable. The implementation functions may change substantially, however. Avoid importing implementation libraries.

The best source of documentation for these libraries are the JavaDoc-style comments in the library modules. This page will give an overview of which library modules to look in and the high-level functionality available in them.

Matching

The matcher.xqy module provides functions to store, retrieve, delete, and list match options; find potential matches for a document; and to store, retrieve, delete, and list match blocks. To see what the results of the match functions look like, see Match Results.

Merging

The merging.xqy module provides functions to build (preview), save, or remove merged documents and to store, retrieve, delete, and list merge options

Process Match and Merge

The process-records.xqy module provides two functions to run through both matching and merging for a particular document.

Constants

The constants.xqy module provides several XQuery variables that are used throughout the code. Always use these variables, rather than hard-coding the values that they refer to.

Trigger

match-and-merge-trigger.xqy implements a trigger to process matching and merging any time a new document is inserted into the content collection.