The SPFAdapter is the default adapter supplied with SmartPlant Foundation and has been architected to allow for a limited amount of customization. The adapter supplied has a generic class, SPFTEFAdapterGEN, that can be referenced directly from a method or can be inherited from another class in the same assembly or from a custom assembly that can then override any of the standard functions defined.
Once a new class has been defined, the class can be referenced from a method to allow for specialized functionality. The SPFAdapter is delivered with one such class that has been inherited from SPFTEFAdapterGEN called LPDAdapter that applies enhanced mapping for items with class name PIDPipingConnector.