Inbound Message Flows
An inbound message flow does the following:
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Receives application messages from your partner, either directly or through a third-party connection
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Transforms the messages to the format used by your back-end applications
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Forwards the messages to those applications
 
The following diagram shows the components of an inbound message flow:
| Callout | Setting | Description | Supported Formats or Protocols | 
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Receiving endpoint  | 
Endpoint at which a host receives transmissions from a partner  | 
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Source message type  | 
Message type of the received message payload  | 
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Map  | 
DataWeave map used to transform the source message type to the target message type  | 
N/A  | 
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Target message type  | 
Format into which the DataWeave map transforms received messages  | 
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Target endpoint  | 
Endpoint to which the transformed message is sent (typically, a process API)  | 
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