Handing over the payload from BatchFTP eWay to custom OTD possible?

Question

Hi there,
As I have been building a JCAPS interface I have a design question that nobody has been able to answer:
I intend to use BatchFTP eWay to connect to a third-party FTP-server and get a file. Now I want the BatchFTP eWay to hand off the data file to a custom OTD which needs to unmarshall the data. I looked at various examples but only found an example of BatchFTP eWay to BatchLocal (copy payload to payload) but nothing else. So my question is: how do I get my standard BatchFTP eWay adapter to handover the data or payload to my custom OTD ?
I can create a jcd to get the file from the external system and write it off to a local file on the JCAPS-box, but can one JCD then trigger another JCD which takes in the newly created local file and then calls my custom OTD to unmarshall the data? Maybe that is the way things should be done?
Thanks for your advice,
Richard

Answer 1

Sorry, I sent you down the wrong path a little:
try{
     //BatchFTP_Incoming is my batchFTp OTD
     BatchFTP_Incoming.getConfiguration().setTargetFileName( fileName ); //can be set in the batchftp settings page
     BatchFTP_Incoming.getClient().get();
     //Copy the FTP GetPayload to a variable
     String payload = new String( BatchFTP_Incoming.getClient().getPayload() );
     try{
          otdInput.unmarshallFromString(payload);
     }catch(Exception e){
          //unmarshall exception can happen here
}catch(Exception e){
     //Error getting the file
}There are many unmarshall methods (unmarshallFromXML, unmarshallFromBytes, etc.). JCAPS 5.1.3 and JCAPS 6 both have an intellisense if you hit ctrl+space on an object.
One "gotcha" of the BatchFTP is the target filename and the target location must have some value set in the collaboration map. I set them to "[set in jcd]" and then just write over them using code:
inFTP.getConfiguration().getPostTransfer().setPostTransferCommand( "DELETE" );
inFTP.getConfiguration().setTargetDirectoryName( "/apps/caps/pickup/ljs" );
inFTP.getConfiguration().getTargetLocation().setTargetDirectoryNameIsPattern( false );
inFTP.getConfiguration().setTargetFileNameIsPattern( false );
inFTP.getConfiguration().setTargetFileName("testFile.txt");Post if you have any more Q's,
--Adam