The input mapping includes the following areas:

The following figure shows the input mapping for a non-reusable Web Service Consumer transformation:

After you create input ports, map the input ports from the

Ports

area to the nodes in the

Operation Input

area. When you map an input port to a node in the operation input, the location of the port appears in the

Location

column in the

Operation Input

area.

The Developer tool maps nodes in the first level of the operation input to input ports when you choose to map the first level of the input hierarchy. The Developer tool also creates the ports to perform the mapping. If the first level of the hierarchy contains a multi-occurring parent node with one or more multi-occurring child nodes, the Developer tool does not map the first level of the hierarchy.

You can map XML data from one string or text input port to the entire SOAP request message. When you map XML data to the entire SOAP request, you cannot map ports to nodes in the operation input.

You can choose to view the lines that connect the input ports to the nodes in the operation input.