---
title: EdiManager
summary: API reference for EdiManager.
status: draft
owner: SAIF Doc Gen
last_reviewed: 2026-09-15
library: SAIF.Framework.Common.Files
reference_type: package
---

# EdiManager

`EdiManager` is the sanctioned facade entry point for reading and writing EDI interchange files; callers construct an `EdiManager` and call `File()` to obtain a builder whose fluent `.Path(path).Read()` / `.Write(file)` chain is the only supported way to perform EDI file IO in this library.

## Purpose
- Provides the single public entry point applications use to start an EDI file read or write operation, rather than constructing parser/builder types directly.
- Delegates the actual builder construction to `EdiFileBuilder`, keeping the fluent IO API internal to the `Edi.Core.Builders` namespace.

## Context
- Namespace: `SAIF.Common.Files.Edi`
- Assembly/package: `SAIF.Framework.Common.Files`

## Public members
| Member | Signature | Purpose |
| --- | --- | --- |
| File | `public IEdiFileBuilder File()` | Returns a new `IEdiFileBuilder` instance used to chain `.Path(path)` with either `.Read()` (parse an interchange from disk) or `.Write(file)` (serialize an `IEdiFile` to disk). |

## Constraints and usage notes
- `File()` is an instance method (not static) despite returning a fresh builder on every call and holding no instance state; callers must instantiate `EdiManager` first.*

> **Note:** Statements marked with `*` were inferred from code structure, naming
> conventions, or contextual evidence where direct confirmation was not available
> in source artifacts.

## Sources
- Common\SAIF.Common.Files\Edi\EdiManager.cs