Sender FileContentConversion - Message tranformation bean - documentOffset

Question

Hi am using a sender SOAP adapter with 'Servlet (Axis)' as transport protocol and 'Axis' as message protocol.
I am using the MessageTransformBean to do my file content conversion.
There is a header line in the file which contains column names.
Sample file:
BOX ID (FI, SOS or COM),Doc Type,Company, Date,Post Key, Number
FI,SA,US,200505311,40,5001000
FI,SA,US,200505332,40,5001000
FI,SA,US,200505333,40,5001000
I am using SimplePlain2XML and I want to ignore the first line of the file and pick up only from 2nd line.
I tried using xml.documentOffset and xml.documentSkipFirstRows parameters to achive this. but both are not working.
I can use StructPlain2XML and handle this whole situation. But i will have to look for keys and all. But can i do this somehow with SimplePlain2XML?
Thanks,
Shobha

Answer 1

Hi Shobha,
The alternate way is to remove the first line and generate the output from second line onwards in message mapping.
Here is the UDF(Context level) to suppress the first line.
Item --- > UDF(removeFirstLine)---->Item
for(int i=0;i<a.length;i++)
if(i==0){
result.addValue(ResultList.SUPPRESS);
else
result.addValue(a[i]);