Installing the Charting Service
The Charting Service provides intraday charting data.
The Charting Service is provided as a Caplin Platform Blade and is downloaded separately to Caplin Transformer.
Requirements
The Charting Service 7 has the following requirements:
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Transformer 7
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An intraday data feed:
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A custom pricing adapter (see Java DataSource API)
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(Optional) An historical data feed:
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A custom charting adapter (see Java Charting API)
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Caplin TREP Adapter and Transformer’s TS1 Decoder Service module (supplied separately)
Transformer’s TS1 Decoder Service module translates historical data supplied by the Caplin TREP Adapter to the same format supplied by the Java Charting API and recognised by the Charting Service.
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Deploying the Charting Service
Follow the steps below:
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Deploy the Charting Service blade. See Deploy and upgrade blades.
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If want to use a Caplin TREP Adapter as a source of historical pricing data for the Charting Service, deploy the TS1 Decoder Service blade. See Deploy and upgrade blades.
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Grant the Transformer user account write permission to the Charting Service’s cached data directory:
servers/Transformer/cache.To change the cache directory location, override the cache-directory configuration item in the file global_config/overrides/ChartingService/Transformer/etc/charting.conf.
See also: