Retrieving Model's metadata using OdiRef

Question

Folks,
Does anyone knows how to get the "resource name" from a file type model, using odiRef?
Let me be more specific: in a interface, when mapping a value to a target column, I have to insert the file name of a model's resource name. Have to note that the interface's target model is not the same model from which the resource name is being sought.
The idea here is not harcoding strings in a mapping. Instead, take the string from a model's metadata.
I've looked the "Introduction to the Substitution API" (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E25178_01/integrate.1111/e12645/api_intro.htm) and the "A.2.33 getModel() Method" (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E25178_01/integrate.1111/e12645/odiref_reference.htm#CIAJGCDG) but none of them gave me clues. Worse, the getModel() method refers to the current model that's being worked on, not an arbitrary model.

Answer 1

Not sure if you will have an API for that or not.
But even the file name is hardcoded inside the File Datastore and once you generate the scenario, it is going to be hardcoded.
Another way to accomplish what you need is by using a Variable in the Resource name of the file datastore. And refresh this name from a DB table or something like that.
Use this variable in your mapping.
This way you will have your requirement fulfilled while keeping the process clean of hard codings