File content Conversion Issuse for a Sender File Adapter

Question

Hi All ,
             I am working for a Migration project , so my  File structure will be as follows
<HEADER>
      <DATA1>
     <DATA2>
     <DATA3>
   <HEADER>
<ITEM>
     <ITEM1>
     <ITEM2>
     <ITEM3>
<ITEM>
WHERE i do have flat file will be as follows
10001,20081902,US
10,soda,1
30,soda,4
40,soda,5
10002,20081902,US
10,steel,1
30,steel,4
40,steel,5
how to pick this file using FCC from sendere flat file adapter without keyfields , and i can use fixed length also

Answer 1

Sridhar,
You can use a work around like this. Create a generic Data Type something like below.
<Message Type>
   <Recordset> - root node
      <ROW>  - element with occurence 0..unbounded
Now create an outbound MI with the above MT, in FCC in sender file adapter, give Recordset structure as ROW, *
This way , you will read the entire file inside XI as an XML like below
<ROW> header record </ROW>
<ROW> item record 1 </ROW>
<ROW> item record 2 </ROW>
<ROW>....</ROW>
In XI , since your header row & item rows are fixed length, now, you can use that in a UDF in your message mapping , or parse the xml using DOM parser in Java mapping, you should be good. Hope this helps.
~Saravana