Can a directory to be created if it does not exist on FTP server?

Question

Hello SOA experts,
We are good with most common usage of all Adapters. But recently, I am facing a challenge when archive files on FTP server.
Archive files need to be placed into different folders for each month. For instance, ./archive/201308 for files archived in August. Next month, a new directory ./archive/201309 should be created, ideally automatically.
My question is, can I do through some configuration and properties setting to let SOA create a remote target directory when it does NOT exist?
We maintained multiple archive folders for different typr of documents. It is really a hassle to create them manually. And if the target directory does not exist, it would throw errors.
Thank you very much in advance.
Alena Li
CGI

Answer 1

Hi, After reading your post, I myself wanted to test this out. I thought that by configuring the following in the Adapter Wizard it would create the remote directory for me:
<adapter-config name="FW" adapter="File Adapter" wsdlLocation="FW.wsdl" xmlns="http://platform.integration.oracle/blocks/adapter/fw/metadata">
  <connection-factory location="eis/FileAdapter"/>
  <endpoint-interaction portType="Write_ptt" operation="Write">
    <interaction-spec className="oracle.tip.adapter.file.outbound.FileInteractionSpec">
      <property name="PhysicalDirectory" value="C:\Archive"/>
      <property name="Append" value="false"/>
      <property name="FileNamingConvention" value="%SEQ%\test.txt"/>
      <property name="NumberMessages" value="1"/>
    </interaction-spec>
  </endpoint-interaction>
</adapter-config>
It failed on my BPEL instance however I could see that it was trying to create the file. When I created all destinations it was able to create it.
This is my recommendation from what I understand you'd like to accomplish:
Create the different Year&Month folders on your destination from Jan to Dec:
201301
201302
201303
201304
201305
201306
201307
201308
201309
201310
201311
201312
(You can actually create as many as you want going to 2090 if you want...
Add the below config to your JCA File:
<adapter-config name="FW" adapter="File Adapter" wsdlLocation="FW.wsdl" xmlns="http://platform.integration.oracle/blocks/adapter/fw/metadata">
  <connection-factory location="eis/FileAdapter"/>
  <endpoint-interaction portType="Write_ptt" operation="Write">
    <interaction-spec className="oracle.tip.adapter.file.outbound.FileInteractionSpec">
      <property name="PhysicalDirectory" value="C:\Archive"/>
      <property name="Append" value="false"/>
      <property name="FileNamingConvention" value="%yyyy.MM%\filename"/>
      <property name="NumberMessages" value="1"/>
    </interaction-spec>
  </endpoint-interaction>
</adapter-config>
This will allow the files to be dynamically created in the correct directories.
This is a work-around and I hope this works for you.