Create customizations for OSV

Customizations allow you to extend functions that Tosca OSV doesn't support out of the box.

Let's assume that you use a FTP server and want to include it into your tests. By default, OSV doesn't provide the service port type FTP. You can, however, create a custom FTP Connector which creates a new service port type for this protocol in OSV. This customization allows you to virtualize a FTP server and to connect to a real FTP server to forward messages to.

What can you customize?

You can use the following user-specific extensions to customize OSV functions:

Functionality	Description	Example in OSV
Connector (Service Port)	Connectors serve as service port types.	HTTP, ActiveMQ, FTP
Transformer	Transformers allow you to define the message format.	XML, JSON
Dynamic value	Dynamic values let you steer Module Attributes during your test activities.	{DATE}, {MATH[]}

How do you enable a customization ?

Customization for OSV are .dll files.

To enable your customizations as extensions for OSV, save these files to the directory <Tosca OSV program files>\Extensions\ and restart all OSV components.

For detailed information on how to create customizations and implementation examples, see the directory <Tosca OSV program files>\Examples.