EDI IFTMIN and IFTSTA

So that’s basically these specifications here:
UN/EDIFACT IFTMIN and
UN/EDIFACT IFTSTA.

How to use

This is how you parse EDI files:

var ediParser = require('edi-iftmin');
// first load the raw EDI file into memory
var rawEdi = fs.readFileSync('./some-edi-file', 'utf8');
// this parses the raw EDI message and creates a nice JSON object for you to use
var edi = ediParser.parseEdi(rawEdi);

Then you can inspect it to see what information is in there.

ediParser.inspectEdi(edi);

Quick sidenote: You can drop files you want to inspect in inspect/files and run cd inspect && node . to use our prepared inspector.

This will print a structure of the EDI file to your console showing all messages, e.g. like this:

Message 0
  UNH: Message header (raw: UNH+553416+IFTMIN:2:912:UN)
    010: Message reference number # 553416
    020 # IFTMIN:2:912:UN
      0 # IFTMIN
      1 # 2
      2 # 912
      3 # UN
  BGM: Beginning of message (raw: BGM+700:::ZFT+663424234)
    010: Document/message name # 700:::ZFT
      0 # 700
      1
      2
      3 # ZFT
    020 # 663424234
  LOC: Place/location identification
    36:GB: 36:GB (raw: LOC+36:GB)
      010: Location function code qualifier # 36:GB
        0 # 36
        1 # GB

This gives you a better understanding of what’s in there, and you can also extract it like this, e.g. if you want to extract the message number 663424234.

ediParser.selectWithPath(edi, 'BGM.020.value');