Composite Structure Groups

It helps to combine multiple <structure-group> from the same or other resources and use it for your current resource.

Possible Locations

Child Elements

Structure Group required recurrent

Example

Consider that you want to merge two structure groups for a resource that you are currently working on. The requirement is to merge two different structure groups and produce a new <structure-group> with structures of all possible combinations.

Following is how the composite structure group would work,

You have the following two structure groups 1 and 2 with the specified structures as,

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- structure group one: structure A, structure B
- structure group two: structure C, structure D

Now a composite structure group will merge all these four structures and produce a new structure-group with the below structures,

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composite structure group: structure AC, structure AD, structure BC, structure BD

Here is how you have to declare the composite structure groups,

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<composite-structure-groups>
    <structure-group name="one">
        <structure name="A">
            <property type="string"/>
            <property name="FieldTwo" type="string"/>
        </structure>
        <structure name="B">
            <property name="FieldThree" type="string"/>
            <property name="FieldFour" type="string"/>
        </structure>
    </structure-group>
    <structure-group name="two">
        <structure name="C">
            <property name="FieldFive" type="string"/>
            <property name="FieldSix" type="string"/>
        </structure>
        <structure name="D">
            <property name="FieldSeven" type="string"/>
            <property name="FieldEight" type="string"/>
        </structure>
    </structure-group>
</composite-structure-groups>

    

ZEST will convert this element as shown below and use it in its constituents (Development, Automation, SDKs and Help Documentation).

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<structure-group name="onetwo">
    <structure name="AC">
        <property name="FieldOne" type="string"/>
        <property name="FieldTwo" type="string"/>
        <property name="FieldFive" type="string"/>
        <property name="FieldSix" type="string"/>
    </structure>
    <structure name="AD">
        <property name="FieldOne" type="string"/>
        <property name="FieldTwo" type="string"/>
        <property name="FieldSeven" type="string"/>
        <property name="FieldEight" type="string"/>
    </structure>
    <structure name="BC">
        <property name="FieldThree" type="string"/>
        <property name="FieldFour" type="string"/>
        <property name="FieldFive" type="string"/>
        <property name="FieldSix" type="string"/>
    </structure>
    <structure name="BD">
        <property name="FieldThree" type="string"/>
        <property name="FieldFour" type="string"/>
        <property name="FieldSeven" type="string"/>
        <property name="FieldEight" type="string"/>
    </structure>
</structure-group>

Last Updated 2025-05-30 16:54:59 +0530 IST

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