File Adapter - Multiple fixed length records in the same file

Question

Hi
I am developing a BPEL process that "Sync Read" a file. The file is a flat file comprising of multiple records and each record is of fixed length. There are no delimiters in the file. I got the xsd associated to this flat file and each element is defined with some fixed length and starting position. The xsd is valid.
When I execute the BPEL Process, I get the following error - I verified the file structure and the position of the fields map correctly. Remember this is not an xml file just a plain text file. Can BPEL process such files or should I always provide an "xml" file?
<bpelFault><faultType>0</faultType><bindingFault xmlns="http://schemas.oracle.com/bpel/extension"><part name="detail"><detail>Start of root element expected.</detail></part><part name="summary"><summary>Exception occured when binding was invoked. Exception occured during invocation of JCA binding: "JCA Binding execute of Reference operation 'SynchRead' failed due to: Error while translating. Translation exception. Error occured while translating content from file /tmp/inputDir/VDA1.txt ". The invoked JCA adapter raised a resource exception. Please examine the above error message carefully to determine a resolution. </summary></part><part name="code"><code>null</code></part></bindingFault></bpelFault>
Thanks
Shanthi

Answer 1

hi,
see you actually read a XML file and when you read it it is verified by a XSD the location of the XSD is in the XML file it self,
<tns:abc xmlns:tns="http://xmlns.int.aaa.co.uk/xmlns/BPELXXX"
xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
xsi:schemaLocation="http://xmlns.int.aaa.co.uk/xmlns/BPELXXX *c:/aaa/bbb/ccc/XSD/abc.xsd*">
if the file you are reading is valid then it is read, other wise not, I am not sure about sys read, but in empty BPEL process, if the XML is not validated with the XSD, then the XML is not read, I am still not sure what is the meaning of flat file, are you doing a opaque read?
Yatan