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Question

Hi,
I am working on following scenario:
1)      Customer sends data in the attachment of Mail (attachement is a tab delimited file)
2)      XI is used as middleware. Mail will be receive in XI and then XI will map the source data into target.
3)      Target will be posted into ECC through ABAP Proxy.
for the scenario I am configuring sender mail adapter (PayloadSwapBean in module). The Problem I am facing is to convert attached tab delimited file into XML file.
Please suggest the solution
Edited by: tapan singh on Mar 14, 2011 2:43 PM

Answer 1

Once you set up the above configuration, you will get one record at a time.
Create a souce message interface like the followings:
XXXXXXXXX_Mail
    rows
        record
Target message interface:
XXXXXXXXX
    rows
        field 1
        field 2
        field 3
Write a UDF function to remove the TAB space
public removeTABSpace(String record,Container container){
   //write your code here
  StringTokenizer st = new StringTokenizer(record,"\t",false);
  String t="";
  while (st.hasMoreElements()) t += st.nextElement();
  return t;
Write another UDF to get the field 1 for example:
public String getField1(String input,Container container){
int counter=0;
int beginIndex=0;
int endIndex=0;
int i;
for (i=0;i<input.length();i++){
     if (input.charAt(i)==34){
            counter=counter+1;
     if (counter==1){
            beginIndex=i+1;
          counter=0;
          break;
for (i=0;i<input.length();i++){
     if (input.charAt(i)==34){
            counter=counter+1;
     if (counter==2){
            endIndex=i;
          counter=0;
          break;
input=input.substring(beginIndex,endIndex);
return input;
Get the mapping like the followings:
record - removeTABSpace - getField1 - field 1
If you need to get field 2, you will write another UDF to handle it.
It should work now. Let me know how you go with it.
Edited by: Bai Li on Mar 15, 2011 3:22 AM