Can we receive EDI as a String through WCF in to the orchestration receive location

Question

Hi,
I had expose the orchestration as WCF service. Now i want to send the EDI file using WCF client to the receive location. So that my EDI file goes into the orchestration receive port and i would get the XML on the Send port.
How i can achieve this? Please correct me if i am wrong.
Thanks

Answer 1

If you have exposed Orchestration as WCF service. And to test the process you can use test clients like
WCFStrom,
SOAPUI.
With these test clients, when you add service reference to the URL of you WCF service (or provide the WSDL file) , these tools would read the contracts of the
WCF and would provide an interface through which you can send the input parameter as expected by your exposed Orchestration.
If your Orchestration (which is exposed as WCF service) is configured to receive EDI files, when you provide URL reference of the WCF service to the test clients
(like WCFStrom, SOAPUI ), these test client would
read the WSDL and would provide an interface for you to enter the data for the EDI. Look the following image of an WCFStrom which is expecting a sample schema (in your case, it would be the schema for WDI)
So when you post a message using
test clients, it would post the message to the WCF service. You would have got a Receive Location configured with WCF-based adapter (you get this when you
import the binding which got created when you used the BizTalk WCF service publishing Wizard) which is bounded to orchestration (which is exposed as WCF) would receive the posted message and orchestration would process the posted message and you can see the
output in send port as you have configured..
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