-Spelunking the Conscia DX Engine with Data Transformation Script Components

This blog post describes a technique that uses Data Transformation Script Orchestration Components (DTS) to help you investigate elements of orchestration flows in the Conscia DX Engine. In addition to obtaining information about JSON structures without consulting Conscia’s documentation, this technique can assist in diagnosing errors that you may have introduced into your configuration. It can also help you to refine JavaScript expressions before you introduce them into other Components, including other DTS Components.

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For background information about Data Transformation Script Orchestration Components, see:

• https://docs.conscia.ai/solutions/dx-engine/data-transformation-script

To use a Data Transformation Script to investigate any element of an orchestration flow:

• Create the DTS Component.
• Set the Script property of the DTS Component to data. This causes the response of the DTS component to contain whatever you pass to as its Data to modify property, which the DX Engine passes to the Script in the variable named data.
• Set the Data to modify property of the DTS Component to whatever JavaScript Expression you would like to evaluate.
• Run the DTS Component in the Conscia Debugger and evaluate its response.

For example, to render the response from and metadata for an Orchestration Component, for example to consider how to access that data, you can set Data to modify to the following JavaScript expression:

({
  response: componentResponse('component-id'),
  metadata: componentExtras('component-id').metadata
})

To test different JavaScript expressions and scripts, you can modify the Data to modify and/or the Script properties of the DTS Component.

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