File Tranfer support in Tuxedo Messaging

Question

Hi,
I would like to know if the file transfer support is there through tuxedo service call or not?
We have a scenario where by we need to bring back .pdf files in the output of a tuxedo service call which are already created through a process.
I would like to know the following detials about it:
1. The data type supporting the files.
2. Any limitation on the file size.
3. Any special configuration setting requirements.
Thanks,
Nitesh

Answer 1

Nitesh,
Tuxedo does not offer an API to directly support the transfer of application
files, but it is easy to implement file transfer yourself using a Tuxedo
service.
The best way to implement file transfer is write a Tuxedo service that takes
as input or output an FML32 buffer with 2 fields:
FILENAME should be a string field containing the file name of the file to be
transferred
FILEDATA should be a carray field containing the actual contents of the
file.
FML32 buffers can hold over 2 billion bytes of data.
(Note that from time to time you may see the term "file transfer" used on
this newsgroup to describe the situation when Tuxedo uses a temporary file
to transfer a message that cannot fit on a message queue. This use of term
"file transfer" is different than the usage of "file transfer" which
describes transferring application files between machines.)
Ed
<Nitesh Gandhi> wrote in message news:[email protected]..
Hi,
I would like to know if the file transfer support is there through tuxedo
service call or not?
We have a scenario where by we need to bring back .pdf files in the output
of a tuxedo service call which are already created through a process.
I would like to know the following detials about it:
1. The data type supporting the files.
2. Any limitation on the file size.
3. Any special configuration setting requirements.
Thanks,
Nitesh