EDI X12 Standard Parsing Library

The EDI X12 Standard provides a uniform way for companies to exchange information across different sectors.

This open source library, available through @WalmartLabs, provides Java based classes that can parse various X12 file formats into a representative Java object model. It's primary focus is on those formats related to the Supply Chain sector.

Supported X12 Format Parsers

X12	Name	Description	X12 Version(s)
DEX 894	Delivery/Return Base Record	DSD deliveries	4010,5010

Getting Started

Each X12 format that is supported will have a Java implementation for both the X12Parser and X12Validator. The parser will be responsible for parsing the message in the given format to the representative Java object model (POJO). The validator will be responsible for providing validations applying them to the values stored in the POJO that the parser creates.

If the X12 message is invalid and can't be parsed the parser is expected to throw an X12ParserException. The validator will not throw an exception under normal circumstances. Instead any validation errors will be returned in a Set of X12ErrorDetail objects.

String dexMessage = ...
DefaultDex894Parser dexParser = new DefaultDex894Parser();
DefaultDex894Validator dexValidator = new DefaultDex894Validator();

Dex894 dex = dexParser.parse(dexMessage);
Set<X12ErrorDetail> errorSet = dexValidator.validate(dex);

After parsing and validating an X12 formatted message, various utilities can be used for post-processing the data. For example

// get an item from the DEX object 
// that was returned from the parser
Dex894Item dexItem = dex.getItems().get(0);

// convert the UPC in G8304 to a 14 digit GTIN
String itf14 = util.convertRetailNumberToItf14(dexItem.getUpc());

More Information

About EDI Standards

EDI formats

GTIN formats

Converting between GTIN formats

ITF-14 format

Build and Release

mvn clean install

See walmartlabs-pom for more information

Licensing

This software is licensed under the Apache 2.0 License