Encoding in file sender adapter

Hi,
I need to read a file which is 7-bit,
I am trying to use File Encpding in the CC as - ASCII, but the data is the SXMB monitor is still not converted.
Thanks,
Naama

It doesnt work,
in the monitor after the file been converted to XML, it shoul be converted to utf-8 right?
and I should see the data in the right way, no?

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File Sender adapter not reading the first line

Hi,
I have a scenario configured from file to jdbc adapter.
However, I found a problem in my file sender adapter. My file adpater always not picking up the first line from my text even I have set the 'Document Offset' to 0.
Any Ideas? Thanks.
Regards,
Pua

Hi Latika Sethi,
My complete input text file is as below, it contains only 2 testing records:-
H1|DIZ1                          |A0016507    |10000020|09/2007
H2|ABC0001
D|P|0001|Gaji Pokok       |   1,000.09
D|D|0002|Denda              |   1,000.00
D|P|0003|Elaun               |   1,000.00
H1|PUA1                        |A0016508    |10000021|09/2007
H2|ABC0002
D|P|0001|Gaji Pokok       |   2,744.09
D|D|0002|Denda              |   2,000.00
D|P|0003|Elaun               |   2,000.00
After the message mapping, I found the pipeline existed in sxmb_moni as below:-
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<ns:mt_rmp03B_filejdbc_sender xmlns:ns="urn:rmp03:pdrm:ips:jdbcjdbc">
<PaySlip>
..<Header2>
.... <IC>ABC0001</IC>
.. </Header2>
.. <Details>
.... <Jenis>P</Jenis>
.... <No>0001</No>
.... <Deskripsi>Gaji Pokok</Deskripsi>
.... <Jumlah>1,000.09</Jumlah>
.. </Details>
</PaySlip>
<PaySlip>
.. <Header1>
.... <Nama>PUA1</Nama>
.... <KWSP>A0016508</KWSP>
.... <NoGaji>10000021</NoGaji>
.... <Bulan>09/2007</Bulan>
.. </Header1>
.. <Header2>
.... <IC>ABC0002</IC>
.. </Header2>
.. <Details>
.... <Jenis>P</Jenis>
.... <No>0001</No>
.... <Deskripsi>Gaji Pokok</Deskripsi>
.... <Jumlah>2,744.09</Jumlah>
.. </Details>
</Payslip>
There are 2 payslips as for the top payslip node...Header1 tag is missing. It means that during the file sender step....the first line of my record which is :-
"H1|DIZ1                          |A0016507    |10000020|09/2007"
is not read into the xi pipeline. Basically this is the problem i faced.
Has somebody facing the same problem before? Currently I have no choice but moved the First line of the text into Second line and left the first line of the text become null/ empty line. As such both records can be successfully read by the XI.
However what I wondered is sometimes clients will do insert the records into the first line and this might made some data loss.
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Issue on file sender adapter communication channel

Hi All,
I have an issue on some of the file sender adapter communication channels .The channels are failing with the error :
(u201CAttempt to process file failed with com.sap.engine.interfaces.messaging.api.exception.MessagingException: com.sap.xi.swift.ParserException: com.sap.xi.swift.ParserException: Message does not start with character '0x1f'u201D).
Please let me know the procedure to get this message processed.
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Vishnu

Hi Vishu,
Find out in what encoding the file is in. for that download Notepad++ and open the file with in.
In Encoding tab you will see the encoding format.
1. If its not UTF-8 or ANSI then you should set the correct encoding in Sender File channel.
2. Check for BOM characters which will not be visible directoly.
3. Use Notepad++ to convert the content to HEX and check for hidden values. i bet there will be some Encoding BOM in the file which is creating problem while picking the file.
Since you are using SWIFT module: try to validate the XML file using Altova XML and check weather is correct.
also ref to this thread:http://scn.sap.com/thread/2134946
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File sender adapter: Content conversion for very deep nested structure

Hi all
I have a file which looks like this
HDOCKET    9800000660980000061911062009AA123456bbWM100012349800000619
DDOCKET_TEST001 4012YAG1
WZOA00000000010000000001
WZOA00000000020000000002
WZOB00000000030000000003
IAAXX000001
IAAXX000002
C0000000000000000000100000000000000000001000000000000000000020000000000000000000300000000000000000004
T2
and my structure is
Header - 1
Detail     - 0....Unbounded
        Bag     - 0.....Unbounded   (sub node of detail)
        Track - 0.....Unbounded    (sub node of detail)
        Customer - 0.....Unbounded    (sub node of detail)
Trailer    - 1
and in the file sender adapter i mentioned the following content conversion setting
HEADER,1,DETAIL,*,Bag,*,Track,*,Customer,*,TRAILER,*
But when i go and see in the monitoring i received the following conversion
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<ns:MT_REQ xmlns:ns="http://royalmail.com/dd_c">
<HEADER>
<ID>H</ID>
<INT>DD</INT>
<CAR>9899999660</CAR>
<CUS>9899999619</CUS>
<POST>11062009</POST>
<NUMBER>AA123456bbWM10001234</NUMBER>
<ACC>9899999619</ACC>
</HEADER>
<DETAIL>
<ID>D</ID>
<Bag>DOCKET_TEST001</Bag>
<S>4012</S>
<Code>YAG</Code>
<mat>1</mat>
<count/>
<Mixed />
</DETAIL>
<Bag>
<ID>W</ID>
<Zone>ZOA</Zone>
<Item>0000000001</Item>
<Number>0000000001</Number>
</Bag>
<Bag>
<ID>W</ID>
<Zone>ZOA</Zone>
<Item>0000000001</Item>
<Number>0000000001</Number>
</Bag>
<Bag>
<ID>W</ID>
<Zone>ZOA</Zone>
<Item>0000000001</Item>
<Number>0000000001</Number>
</Bag>
</Bag>
<Track>
<ID>I</ID>
<Item>AAXX000001</Item>
</Track>
<Track>
<ID>I</ID>
<Item>AAXX000001</Item>
</Tracked>
<Customer>
<ID>C</ID>
<OrigCustomer>00000000000000000001</OrigCustomer>
<Field1>00000000000000000001</Field1>
<Field2>00000000000000000002</Field2>
<Field3>00000000000000000003</Field3>
<Field4>00000000000000000004</Field4>
</Customer>
<TRAILER>
<ID>T</ID>
<Count>2</Count>
</TRAILER>
</ns:MT_REQ>
whereas i wanted it like:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
<ns:MT_REQ xmlns:ns="http://royalmail.com/dd_c">
<HEADER>
<ID>H</ID>
<INT>DD</INT>
<CAR>9899999660</CAR>
<CUS>9899999619</CUS>
<POST>11062009</POST>
<NUMBER>AA123456bbWM10001234</NUMBER>
<ACC>9899999619</ACC>
</HEADER>
<DETAIL>
<ID>D</ID>
<Bag>DD_TEST001</Bag>
<S>4012</S>
<Code>egg</Code>
<mat>1</mat>
<count/>
<Mixed />
<Bag>
<ID>W</ID>
<Zone>zzz</Zone>
<Item>0000000001</Item>
<Number>0000000001</Number>
</Bag>
<Bag>
<ID>W</ID>
<Zone>zzz</Zone>
<Item>0000000001</Item>
<Number>0000000001</Number>
</Bag>
<Bag>
<ID>W</ID>
<Zone>zzz</Zone>
<Item>0000000001</Item>
<Number>0000000001</Number>
</Bag>
</Bag>
<Track>
<ID>I</ID>
<Item>AAXX000001</Item>
</Track>
<Track>
<ID>I</ID>
<Item>AAXX000001</Item>
</Tracked>
<Customer>
<ID>C</ID>
<OrigCustomer>00000000000000000001</OrigCustomer>
<Field1>00000000000000000001</Field1>
<Field2>00000000000000000002</Field2>
<Field3>00000000000000000003</Field3>
<Field4>00000000000000000004</Field4>
</Customer>
</DETAIL>
<DETAIL>
<ID>D</ID>
<Bag>DD_TEST002</Bag>
<S>4012</S>
<Code>egg</Code>
<mat>1</mat>
<count/>
<Mixed />
<Bag>
<ID>W</ID>
<Zone>zzzzzz</Zone>
<Item>0000000001</Item>
<Number>0000000001</Number>
</Bag>
<Bag>
<ID>W</ID>
<Zone>ZOA</Zone>
<Item>0000000001</Item>
<Number>0000000001</Number>
</Bag>
<Bag>
<ID>W</ID>
<Zone>zzz</Zone>
<Item>0000000001</Item>
<Number>0000000001</Number>
</Bag>
</Bag>
<Track>
<ID>I</ID>
<Item>AAXX000001</Item>
</Track>
<Track>
<ID>I</ID>
<Item>AAXX000001</Item>
</Tracked>
<Customer>
<ID>C</ID>
<OrigCustomer>00000000000000000001</OrigCustomer>
<Field1>00000000000000000001</Field1>
<Field2>00000000000000000002</Field2>
<Field3>00000000000000000003</Field3>
<Field4>00000000000000000004</Field4>
</Customer>
</DETAIL>
<TRAILER>
<ID>T</ID>
<Count>2</Count>
</TRAILER>
</ns:MT_REQ>
i.e. i need all Bag ,Track and Customer inside detail tag.
could anyone help me in this..i've already searched SDN and got some link as useful but none of them were totally related.
Regards
Naina

Naina
Pls. check my forum link, i had the single level hierarchy XML file which I converted into nested structure & then into flat file.
File Conversion in Rec File Adapter with subnodes
This can give you an idea how to go ahead. Let me know in case you need any more info about this.

File Sender adapter with File content conversion

Hi
I'm having problems picking up a flat file that has some junk characters in the file.
I'm usign a file sender adapter with file content conversion. The adapters shows the following error-
Conversion of complete file content of to XML format failed around position 0: sun.io.MalformedInputException
this is the sample data with junk char's -
A20099201009999009999060815160505051700130008151vÿÿÿÿ³ r 0OK0476 31N016227241915840IV 00840 ÿÿÿ ÿ ÿÿÿÿÿÿÿÿ ÿ ÿÿÿ
There is not much in the file content conversion. This is a fixed length file, I'm just pickign it up & passing it to an inbound proxy. All my processing is in the proxy.
I'd appreciate any suggestions.
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Rachana

Hi Rachana,
Do you use a specific "encoding" like UTF-8 or ISO-8859-1 in your Sender CC?
To be simple, Encoding is linked to country, you can find all "iso-nnnn" via google or some of them in sap help.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw2004s/helpdata/en/e3/94007075cae04f930cc4c034e411e1/content.htm
Moreover, with your source file opened thanks to Notepad (for instance), use option "save UNDER", you will the encoding use by your file
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Hi Experts,
I am doing a scenario on J2SE. Like this: J2SE File Sender -> XI -> J2SE File Receiver.
On File Sender adapter, it has an error, like this "ERROR: Finished sending to Integration Engine with error u201Cjava.io.IOException: invalid content type for SOAP: TEXT/HTML; HTTP 404 Not Foundu201D. Skip confirmation and quit this loop"
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D:\Thach\Input\xi_test.xml
16:51:45 (4052): Start processing u201CTXTu201D file u201CD:\Thach\Input\xi_test.xmlu201D size 190 in u201CEO mode
16:51:45 (4058): Start converting to XML format
16:51:45 (4061): Converted complete file content to XML format
16:51:45 (4062): Sending text message u201Ce1ffc9e0-71e5-11de-8306-0019d12044f1u2033 type u201Capplication/xmlu201D to Integration Engineu2026 (message size: 633 bytes, URL: u201Chttp://host:50200/sap/xi/engine?type=entryu201D)
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ns0:MT_Material_toPPS xmlns:ns0="http://gml.com/xi/XI/Tutorials">
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mode=FILE2XMBWITHROWCONVERSION
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XI.SenderService=BS_PlainJ2SE_Sender
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Thach
Input
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file.processingMode=test
file.pollInterval=10
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xml.documentName = MT_Material_toPPS
xml.documentNamespace = http://gml.com/xi/XI/Tutorials
xml.structureTitle = Material
xml.processFieldNames = fromConfiguration
xml.fieldNames = Text
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Hi Experts,
I have a question regarding the file/ftp adapter (sender).
I have a directory with xml and pdf files. for every xml file there is a pdf file with the same filename. for example:
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file2.xml
file2.pdf
file3.xml
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thanks for your quick answer.
That the file adapter is not able to read pdf files is clear to me. In this case I only want to transport the pdf. that works fine. I tested it.
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I have an File Sender adapter scenario where I have switched on Adapter-specific message attributes (FileName).
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwpi71/helpdata/EN/83/2200cb50d345c793336d9a1683163e/frameset.htm
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http://wiki.sdn.sap.com/wiki/display/XI/FiletoMultipleIDOCSplittingwithoutBPM
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I have configured everything exaclty the same way it is mentioned here. But for me the process is not visible at all.
I can't even see the first request message in the monitoring.
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sysinfo: files to join, file1, file2, file3 output after joining the files should be sal.txt and the executable file is run.bat
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We're polling files from an external FTP server. For this I created a scenario on XI according to this thread:
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Sorry for the late answer. Unfortunately I can't ask the application system to provide file names containing a timestamp within. The files are provided by an external partner and are retrieved by several others as well.
In the meantime I managed to achieve this:
In repository I created dummy data types, message types and message interfaces. No mapping programs and interface mappings!
In configuration I created the necessary communication channels (1 ftp sender, 1 file receiver) and the required receiver and interface determinations as well as the sender and receiver agreements.
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BTW: isn't it possible to post screenshots? Would be much more easier to explain things... so sorry to anyone if I wasn't clear enough!
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Renaud

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I have an scenario where I have a file sender adapter, and I need to look for a file in a specific folder from a specific FTP site.
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The file adapter ( The respective channel) is definitely locked in PI . Ideally for each polling interval a lock is being created and once the processing is over , the lock should be released/deleted automatically to allow further polling interval. If the lock is not released by the system automatically,further polling will not happen as expected. ( This may affect all sender file adapters as well. I would recommend to do a check in al sender file communication channels)
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If you have more than one node, then same should be done in all server nodes.
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