How do I parse EDIFACT in Java?

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Parsing EDIFACT can be a daunting undertaking. How can I correctly create the syntactically and semantically correct tree from an EDIFACT file?

score 14 · Accepted Answer · answered May 08 '10 at 15:02

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www.smooks.org - A template-based text parser. They have suitable EDI examples that I was looking to use to implement for Walmart 810s before they dumped my products.

answered May 08 '10 at 15:02

Chris K

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Smooks seems to be extremely XML-heavy, but otherwise looks mature and good. – Johannes Brodwall May 09 '10 at 17:11
It is. I'd like to see something like commons-digester for EDIFACT, honestly. Before I stopped doing EDI altogether, I was thinking about using Smooks to do something similar, straight EDI-text to POJO. – Chris K May 10 '10 at 02:50

score 4 · Answer 2 · answered May 21 '10 at 17:45

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try: http://bots.sourceforge.net not so much a library, but translates edifact to the format you prefer....xml....csv....etc

answered May 21 '10 at 17:45

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score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 08 '10 at 14:49

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Parsing EDIFACT is easy. You can find many libraries to do it. For example,

http://code.google.com/p/edicoder/

All these libraries simply break up the messages into segments.

The hard part with EDIFACT is to transform the message into some meaningful objects. This is very application specific and I doubt you will find any libraries. Even if you find one, it will be specific to a narrow field, like hotel reservation.

answered May 08 '10 at 14:49

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Edicoder looks like it hasn't actually implemented any parsing code yet. I agree regarding EDIFACT transformations. – Johannes Brodwall May 09 '10 at 17:10

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 12 '16 at 12:54

We have implemented 834 EDI to XML using Java + Smooks 1.6. It's awesome!

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<medi:description name="834 EDI TO XML" version="1.0" />

<medi:delimiters segment="&#10;" field="*" component="^"
    sub-component="#" escape="~"/>

<medi:segments xmltag="FILE">

    <medi:segment segcode="ISA" xmltag="ISAHeader">
        <medi:field xmltag="AuthorziationInformationQualifier" />
        <medi:field xmltag="AuthorziationInformation" />
        <medi:field xmltag="SecurityInformationQualifier" />
        <medi:field xmltag="InterchangeIDQualifier" />
        <medi:field xmltag="InterchangeSenderID" />
        <medi:field xmltag="InterchangeIDQualifier" />
        <medi:field xmltag="InterchangeReceiverID" />
        <medi:field xmltag="InterchangeDate" />
        <medi:field xmltag="InterchangeTime" />
        <medi:field xmltag="RepetitionSeparator" />
        <medi:field xmltag="InterchangeControlVersionNumber" />
        <medi:field xmltag="InterchangeControlNumber" />
        <medi:field xmltag="AcknowledgmentRequested" />
        <medi:field xmltag="InterchangeUsageIndicator" />
        <medi:field xmltag="ComponentElementSeparator" />
    </medi:segment>

    <medi:segmentGroup xmltag="BenefitEnrollmentRequest" maxOccurs="-1">
        <medi:segment minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="-1" segcode="GS" xmltag="BenefitEnrollmentRequestHeader">
            <medi:field xmltag="FunctionalIDCode" />
           <medi:field xmltag="ApplicationSendsCode" />
           <medi:field xmltag="ApplicationRecsCode" />
           <medi:field xmltag="Date" />
           <medi:field xmltag="Time" />
           <medi:field xmltag="GroupCtrlNumber" />
           <medi:field xmltag="ResponsibleAgencyCode" />
           <medi:field xmltag="ReleaseIDCode" />
            </medi:segment>

        <medi:segmentGroup xmltag="BenefitEnrollmentMaintenance" maxOccurs="-1">
                <medi:segment minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="-1" segcode="ST" xmltag="BenefitEnrollmentMaintenanceHeader">
                        <medi:field xmltag="TransactionSetIdentifierCode" />
                        <medi:field xmltag="TransactionSetControlNumber" />
                        <medi:field xmltag="ImplementationConventionReference" />
                </medi:segment>
            <medi:segment minOccurs="0" segcode="BGN" xmltag="Begin" ignoreUnmappedFields="true">
                  <medi:field xmltag="TSPurposeCode" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="ReferenceIdent" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="Date" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="Time" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="TimeCode" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="ReferenceIdent" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="TransactionTypeCode" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="ActionCode" />
            </medi:segment>

             <medi:segment minOccurs="0" segcode="REF" xmltag="Ref_38" ignoreUnmappedFields="true">
                  <medi:field xmltag="ReferenceIdentQual" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="ReferenceIdent" />
            </medi:segment>

             <medi:segment minOccurs="0" segcode="DTP" xmltag="Dtp_007" ignoreUnmappedFields="true">
                  <medi:field xmltag="DateTimeQualifier" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="DateTimePeriodFormatQualifier" />
                   <medi:field xmltag="DateTimePeriod" />
            </medi:segment>

             <medi:segment minOccurs="0" segcode="QTY" xmltag="To" ignoreUnmappedFields="true">
                  <medi:field xmltag="QuantityQualifier" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="Quantity" />
            </medi:segment>

             <medi:segment minOccurs="0" segcode="N1" xmltag="Sponsor" ignoreUnmappedFields="true">
                  <medi:field xmltag="EntityIDCode" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="Name" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="IDCodeQualifier" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="IDCode" />
            </medi:segment>

             <medi:segment minOccurs="0" segcode="N1" xmltag="Issuer" ignoreUnmappedFields="true">
                  <medi:field xmltag="EntityIDCode" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="Name" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="IDCodeQualifier" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="IDCode" />
            </medi:segment>

             <medi:segment minOccurs="0" segcode="N1" xmltag="Agent" ignoreUnmappedFields="true">
                  <medi:field xmltag="EntityIDCode" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="Name" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="IDCodeQualifier" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="IDCode" />
                  <medi:segment minOccurs="0" segcode="ACT" xmltag="Act" ignoreUnmappedFields="true">
                  <medi:field xmltag="AccountNumber" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="Name" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="IDCodeQualifier" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="IDCode" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="AcctNumberQualifier" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="AccountNumber" />
            </medi:segment>
            </medi:segment>
             <medi:segment minOccurs="0" segcode="N1" xmltag="Broker" ignoreUnmappedFields="true">
                  <medi:field xmltag="EntityIDCode" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="Name" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="IDCodeQualifier" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="IDCode" />
                  <medi:segment minOccurs="0" segcode="ACT" xmltag="Act" ignoreUnmappedFields="true">
                  <medi:field xmltag="AccountNumber" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="Name" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="IDCodeQualifier" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="IDCode" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="AcctNumberQualifier" />
                  <medi:field xmltag="AccountNumber" />
            </medi:segment>
            </medi:segment>

            <!--  
            <medi:segment minOccurs="0" segcode="N1" xmltag="Sponsor">
                  <medi:field xmltag="Name" />
            </medi:segment>
            <medi:segmentGroup xmltag="Member" maxOccurs="-1">
                <medi:segment minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="-1" segcode="INS"    xmltag="MemberHeader">
                        <medi:field xmltag="HeaderName" />
                        </medi:segment>

                <medi:segment minOccurs="0" segcode="DTP" xmltag="DOB">
                  <medi:field xmltag="Month" />
            </medi:segment>
                <medi:segment minOccurs="0" maxOccurs="-1" segcode="LE" xmltag="MemberFooter" ignoreUnmappedFields="true">
                        <medi:field xmltag="FooterName"/>
                        </medi:segment>
            </medi:segmentGroup>-->

            <medi:segment minOccurs="0" segcode="SE" xmltag="BenefitEnrollmentMaintenanceFooter">
            <medi:field xmltag="TransactionSetIdentifierCode" />
                        <medi:field xmltag="TransactionSetControlNumber" />
            </medi:segment>
        </medi:segmentGroup>

        <medi:segment minOccurs="0" segcode="GE" xmltag="BenefitEnrollmentRequestFooter">
            <medi:field xmltag="ZFA" />
            </medi:segment>
    </medi:segmentGroup>

    <medi:segment segcode="IEA" xmltag="ISAFooter">
         <medi:field xmltag="CCC" />
         </medi:segment>
</medi:segments>

score 0 · Answer 5 · answered Apr 28 '11 at 03:21

There is a good one at http://x12parser.codeplex.com. It will output any 810 as xml, html or back to text with whitespace for easier inspection. The unit tests includes a sample of the Walmart 810 from the site: http://www.jobisez.com/edi/tp/guide.aspx?doc=/edi-igs/Walmart/810Invoice5010.pdf.

The formatted text would look like this:

ISA*00*          *00*          *16*102096559TEST  *14*PARTNERTEST    *071214*1406*U*00040*810000263*1*T*>
  GS*IN*102096559TEST*PARTNER*20071214*1406*810000263*X*004010
    ST*810*0001
      BIG*20050205*6463367*20050202*3376103367
      REF*IA*123456170
      REF*DP*00017
      REF*MR*0020
      N1*SU*SUPPLIER NAME
      N1*ST*WAL-MART 100*UL*0078742000992
        N3*406 SOUTH WALTON BLVD
        N4*BENTONVILLE*AR*72712 
      ITD*05*15*****45
      DTM*011*20050205
      FOB*CC
      IT1**1080*EA*3.61**IN*001719653*UP*022108955228*UK*00221089552284 
        PID*F****ITEM DESCRIPTION
        SAC*A*I410***2350*******02
      TDS*387530
      CAD*T***RDWT*ROADWAY**BM*123456789
      ISS*1080*EA*100*LB
      CTT*1
    SE*19*0001
  GE*1*810000263
IEA*1*810000263

x12parser is implemented in .NET, not Java... :-) – Johannes Brodwall Apr 28 '11 at 07:19 — Johannes Brodwall, Apr 28 '11 at 07:19

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