File Content Conversion: Remove reserved characters from Content

Question

Hi PI Gurus,
we're facing a little problem with FCC in File Receiver Adapter.  Sometimes the defined fieldSeparator ("|") comes within the field content.
e.g.
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<ns0:Positions xmlns:ns0="http://test.com">
<Position>
<Value1>001</Value1>
<Value2>Test|Content</Value2>
</Position>
</ns0:Positions>
So, my first thought was to replace all "|" with a litte java mapping beind the actual mapping.
But, is there any possibility to achieve this via configuration of FCC (something like fieldSeperatorSubstitution)?
Help is as always highly appreciated!
Cheers,
Matthias Kral

Answer 1

Hello Hareenkumar,
yes you're totally right. I ran in several OutOfMemoryError while testing the code above. The errors started with messages over 15 MB.
Here's the code, that is productive now. It replaces all Pipes "|" by Slashes "|" and really works fine and performant.
public void execute(InputStream in, OutputStream out)
          throws StreamTransformationException {
          try {
               int totalCount = 0;
          byte[] buf = new byte[40960];
          int count = 0;
               while (count >= 0) {
                    count = in.read(buf);
                    totalCount += count;
                    if (count > 0) {
                         for (int i=0; i<count; i++){
                              if (buf<i>==124){
                                   buf<i> = 47;
                         out.write(buf, 0, count);
          } catch (IOException e) {
               throw new StreamTransformationException(e.getMessage());
Thank you all again!!!
Cheers Matthias