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In our wm flow services, there are a lot of empty or dummy map step that are not doing anything. There is no tranformation, no link pipe in and pipe out. What could be the purpose of these empty map steps? Thank you for your help!
Hi Franky,
are there any variables being dropped or set to define values?
Sometimes empty Map Steps are used to structure branches to mark certain pathes as empty. You should comment these Map Steps accordingly.
Regards, Holger
Thank you so much for your help, Holger.
Could you explain a little bit more on "Sometimes empty Map Steps are used to structure branches to mark certain pathes as empty. "? I don’t think I understand how it works.
when a branch is used as an “if”- or “case”- structure, there are sometimes conditions where there is nothing to do at all. To make this clear to other developers we are adding empty map steps there and comment these steps with “do nothing”. Otherwise someone might think that there is some code missing or that it has been deleted accidentally.
It is much clear now. Thank you, Holger
Why don’t ask your developers?