File Content Conversion for Unequal Number of Columns

Question

Hi,
Iam following this thread FCC for Unequal Number of Columns.
/people/jeyakumar.muthu2/blog/2005/11/29/file-content-conversion-for-unequal-number-of-columns
when iam doing ,iam getting an error
Conversion initialization failed: java.lang.Exception: java.lang.Exception: java.lang.Exception: Error(s) in XML conversion parameters found: Parameter 'TOTALSET.fieldFixedLengths' or 'TOTALSET.fieldSeparator' is missing Consistency check: no. of arguments in 'TOTALSET.fieldFixedLength' does not match 'TOTALSET.fieldNames' (0 <> 1)
My conversion parameters are
Recordset Structure                      : TOTALSET,*
TOTALSET.fieldNames                 : ITEMSET
ignoreRecordsetName                   : true
TOTALSET.fieldSeparator              : 'nl'
My file structure is as below
01,021000021,G4886704,080919,0742,001,,,2
02,G4886704,021000021,1,080918,0742,,2
03,000000135073477,,010,105303839,,,015,489113155,,,045,489039455,,,072,73700
Please help in resoving the error.
Thanks in Advance
Srinivas

Answer 1

Hi Srivinas,
your file structure is as below
01,021000021,G4886704,080919,0742,001,,,2
02,G4886704,021000021,1,080918,0742,,2
03,000000135073477,,010,105303839,,,015,489113155,,,045,489039455,,,072,73700
So it's easy, you have to use KEYFIELD option, coz you have something like that :
Line 1 : keyfield = 01 following by a limited number of columns (e.g 30 fields for Structure1)
Line 2 : keyfield = 02 following by a limited number of columns (e.g 14 fields for Structure2)
Line 3 : keyfield = 03 following by a limited number of columns (e.g 23 fields for Structure3)
Thanks to the Keyfield, you define a field which is present in each line that you can used to distinguished the different structures of lines. In your case, it seems that the keyfield is the first column (01, 02, 03).
Try to use that:
Recorset = TOTALSET         (and don't use option "ignoreRecordsetName : true")
Recordset structure =Structure1,1,Structure2,(star),Structure3,(start)       (the difficulty will be to find the good use of "*" and "1", but after some tests you will find the good one).
Note: replace (start) by the character " * "
Key field value = keyfield
Key field type  = String (case sensitive)
Structure1.fieldNames  = keyfield,field2, field3 etc.. of Structure1
Structure2.fieldNames  = keyfield,field2, field3 etc.. of Structure2
Structure3.fieldNames  = keyfield,field2, field3 etc.. of Structure3
and then you will have a XML like that:
TOTALSET
Structure1  and all its fieldN
Structure2  and all its fieldN
Structure2  and all its fieldN
Structure3  and all its fieldN
Structure3  and all its fieldN
TOTALSET
Structure1  and all its fieldN    because I used Structure1,1
Structure3  and all its fieldN
Regards.
Mickael
Edited by: Mickael Huchet on Apr 20, 2009 5:18 PM
Edited by: Mickael Huchet on Apr 20, 2009 5:19 PM