ContentExtractorFactoryParseCustomEntityDefinitions Method

Parses a string containing custom entity definitions into a list of CustomEntityDefinition. This list can them be passed to method LoadCustomEntityDefinitions(ListCustomEntityDefinition) as the argument.

Definition

Namespace: OpenDiscoverSDK
Assembly: OpenDiscoverSDK (in OpenDiscoverSDK.dll) Version: 2026.2.6.0 (2026.02.06)
C#
public static List<CustomEntityDefinition> ParseCustomEntityDefinitions(
	string definitionStr
)

Parameters

definitionStr  String

Return Value

ListCustomEntityDefinition
A parsed list of CustomEntityDefinition

Remarks

FORMAT of text file: - lines starting with '#' are comments - lines starting with '[CustomEntityDefinition]' are the start of a custom item definition - the next non-comment line must have be of format: Format of custom item definitions in this test file (a line beginning with a '#' is a comment and ignored): [CustomEntityDefinition] Name | Classification | RequireKeywordSequenceAtStartOfLine | ExtractType keyword+sequence+1 keyword+sequence+2 ... keyword+sequence+N Example: [CustomEntityDefinition] # Test #1: searches for "invoiced company name:" AND "invoiced co. name:" (not case sensitive) and returns the remaining text on the line InvoicedCompany | InvoiceDocument | false | RemainingLine invoiced+company+name+: invoiced+co+.+name+: invoiced+co+name+: OR if ExtractType = RegularExpressionAfter, RegularExpressionBefore, or RegularExpressionBeforeAndAfter: Name | Classification | KeywordSequence | RequireKeywordSequenceAtStartOfLine | ExtractType RegularExpression NumRegExSearchChars A keyword sequence is terms and symbols separated by '+' (addition sign). There can be no space between terms, '+', and symbols and a sequence cannot start or end with a '+'. A sequence must begin with a word term.

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