Creating a PDF-Mail-Attachment via Abap Mapping possible ?

Hi folks,
I am trying to build a szenario like: Getting an Idoc -> sending it to abap mapping -> map a pdf from smartforms in abap -> map the from/to for the mail payload -> come back from abap mapping -> send it with the mail adapter .
But now I am stuck at the point "coming back from abap mapping", because the pdf -data seems to become unreadable because of conversion. I am using Ixml and trying to attach the create pdf (looks hex-right at that point) by method create_simple_element as content-tag of the mail. But after rendering and coming back out of mapping, it seams that that data is not converted from xstring back in the right way. Can someone give a hint ? Is that way by IXML not possible for data including binary-data ? Have I to go another way?
Thanks in advance
Detlef

> as content-tag of the mail.
Sometimes I have to read the request several times to find the issue:
No you cannot put a binary as part of an XML element.
You can only send a plain binary as payload, so the whole mail would be nothing besides the PDF.
In PI 7.1 you can create also an additional attachment out of mapping, but I do not know if this works for ABAP mapping also.
The whole "I want to send an email with attachment out of PI" topic is not supported from PI development in any way.
So you have to write a lot of code (especially Java code) to achieve this.
> Regarding your opinion. Its based on customer requirements to have central focal point in dezentral landscape.
The PI expert has to advise the customer for the scenarios. That is part of the job.

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sure thing! Here it is: 
 
 
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 } catch (Exception e) {
 return e.toString();
(SDN helped me much in creating that
This function has no compiling errors, anything workes fine:
It takes 3 input-parameters, see also: http://help.sap.com/javadocs/pi/SP3/xpi/com/sap/aii/mapping/api/OutputAttachments.html
filename (ok, more or less contentID)
mimeType (more or less contentType)
content: Base64-encoded String which should be set as content
In my sample I use the following constants for that function:
filename = "fn1.txt"
mimeType="application/xml"
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When using the message, I got this error within SXMB_MONI:
<SAP:AdditionalText>com.sap.engine.interfaces.messaging.api.exception.MessagingException: Could not queue receive for
message 0022642d-b106-02df-8e8c-f41c243bd112(INBOUND). Reason: java.lang.NullPointerException: while trying to
invoke the method com.sap.aii.af.sdk.xi.lang.Binary.getBytes() of an object returned from
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This looks pretty much the same as Add Attachment from ABAP Mapping but this tread is also not answered.
Adding attachment from PI level looks also in that direction, again, no answer.
So, I was wondering if someone has solved such problem?

Hi Divyesh!
We did it that way:
1. Choosing the XML-Mailstructure as Destination as described in Configuring the Receiver Mail Adapter - Advanced Adapter Engine - SAP Library - Example (XI payload with mail package)
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for (int i=0;i<attFname.length;i++) {
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output+="--"+getBoundary(container)+CRLF;
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This UDF is configured as "QUEUE"
We have configured this input-structure
The Content itself is allready base64.
So we can call this mapping and it creates a Multipart-Mail for us.

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