File Content Conversion : Recordset Structure with * not reading file

Question

Hallo all,
we have the following problem.
we implemented a scenario as sown in this blog
/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/06/08/how-to-send-a-flat-file-with-various-field-lengths-and-variable-substructures-to-xi-30
but there is a problem.
If the file structure is declared as :
Header,1,Items,*
then the adapter does not even read the file from the directory (so I assume that for some reason the file structure is not as expected).
If on the other had the structured is declared as :
Header,1,Items,3
everything works.
Obviously though, this is not satisfying since we need variable cardinalities.
Here is an example :
I have a specific file in a standard directory, called xi_input.
The file is edited straight into that directory, so there can't be filename errors etc.
If the file is left empty :
Nothing happens . No message of any kind in sxmb_moni/monitoring xml messages .
If the file contains the following (data is random) , where 'H' is the key for the header and 'I' is the key for the items :
H 20060403 16 3 316001 kapou lalla morellala 20060403 F3 23
I 277101010 2
I 277101011 3
I 277101012 4
There are to cases :
if the file structure is declared as :
Header,1,Items,*
Then nothing happens .
If on the other had the structured is declared as :
Header,1,Items,3
everything works .
Any suggestions and help is appreciated
Thank you .

Answer 1

Actually yes, there is an error message :
Error     5/30/08 3:12:45 PM     fda9d3c5-4775-4df8-17b8-dfd14191171d     
Retry interval started. Length: 5.0 seconds
Error     5/30/08 3:12:45 PM     fda9d3c5-4775-4df8-17b8-dfd14191171d     
Could not archive file 'E:\tmp\NetBeauty\In\xi_input.dat' after processing
5/30/08 3:12:45 PM           Processing started
And the details are :
2008-05-30 16:07:00     Success     Channel CC_File_adapter: Entire file content converted to XML format
2008-05-30 16:07:00     Warning     Channel CC_File_adapter: Empty document found. Proceed without sending message
2008-05-30 16:07:00     Error     Attempt to archive file "E:\tmp\NetBeauty\In\xi_input.dat" after processing failed. Retry
Only that they don't look very helpful. From this I only understand that the data in my input.dat file is not in the format expexced.
I Have configured key fields as :
keyfield name : keyfield
Header.fieldNames : keyfield,CreationDate,CentralCustomerCode,CustomerCode,ReferenceDocumentNumber,DeliveryPlace,Message,ReturnMessage,DeliveryDate,SalesmanCode,Rest
Items.fieldNames : keyfield,Material,Quantity
Header.keyFieldValue     "H"
Items.keyFieldValue     "I"