Merge-Operator

Hello,
I'm querying a WebService which returns a Collection of Foobar.
For each Foobar I want to query other WebServices and merge their results into the corresponding Foobar-Row.
Neither Union, nor Switch seem to be appropriate. I need something to merge the data from several ports.
Any hint how to implement this?
Thanks,
Kai

Hi Kai,
What you are describing looks similar to SQL Join functionality. There is no way to do this using Visual Composer operators.
You need to implement this in the Service layer (using CAF, EJB or any similar tool).
Regards,
Shai

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I have a simple SOA composite which reads XML files and posts data to a database table using a database adapter. I would like to perform a merge operation but I keep getting this error in the log -
SEVERE: JCABinding=> XML2DB:WriteInvToDB [ WriteInvToDB_ptt::merge(InventoryCollection) ] Could not invoke operation 'merge' against the 'Database Adapter' due to:
BINDING.JCA-11616
DBWriteInteractionSpec Execute Failed Exception.
merge failed. Descriptor name: [WriteInvToDB.Inventory].
Caused by java.lang.NullPointerException.
Here is the complete log:
SEVERE: JCABinding=> XML2DB:WriteInvToDB [ WriteInvToDB_ptt::merge(InventoryCollection) ] Could not invoke operation 'merge' against the 'Database Adapter' due to:
BINDING.JCA-11616
DBWriteInteractionSpec Execute Failed Exception.
merge failed. Descriptor name: [WriteInvToDB.Inventory].
Caused by java.lang.NullPointerException.
Please see the logs for the full DBAdapter logging output prior to this exception.
Jan 3, 2009 10:58:06 AM oracle.integration.platform.blocks.adapter.fw.log.LogManagerImpl log
SEVERE: JCABinding=> [default/XML2DB!1.0*2008-12-23_13-27-06_078.WriteInvToDB]:merge One-way interaction failed
Jan 3, 2009 10:58:06 AM oracle.tip.mediator.serviceEngine.MediatorServiceEngine post2Mesh
SEVERE: Post 2 messah failed
oracle.fabric.common.FabricInvocationException: BINDING.JCA-12563
Exception occured when binding was invoked.
Exception occured during invocation of JCA binding: "JCA Binding execute of Reference operation 'merge' failed due to: DBWriteInteractionSpec Execute Failed Exception.
merge failed. Descriptor name: [WriteInvToDB.Inventory].
Caused by java.lang.NullPointerException.
The invoked JCA adapter raised a resource exception.
Please examine the above error message carefully to determine a resolution.
     at oracle.integration.platform.blocks.adapter.fw.jca.cci.EndpointInteractionException.getFabricInvocationException(EndpointInteractionException.java:74)
     at oracle.integration.platform.blocks.adapter.AdapterReference.post(AdapterReference.java:226)
     at oracle.integration.platform.blocks.mesh.AsynchronousMessageHandler.doPost(AsynchronousMessageHandler.java:153)
     at oracle.integration.platform.blocks.mesh.MessageRouter.post(MessageRouter.java:152)
     at oracle.integration.platform.blocks.mesh.MeshImpl.post(MeshImpl.java:159)
     at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor253.invoke(Unknown Source)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:585)
Caused by: BINDING.JCA-12563
Exception occured when binding was invoked.
Exception occured during invocation of JCA binding: "JCA Binding execute of Reference operation 'merge' failed due to: DBWriteInteractionSpec Execute Failed Exception.
merge failed. Descriptor name: [WriteInvToDB.Inventory].
Caused by java.lang.NullPointerException.
The invoked JCA adapter raised a resource exception.
Please examine the above error message carefully to determine a resolution.
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     at oracle.integration.platform.blocks.adapter.fw.jca.cci.JCAEndpointInteraction.performAsynchronousInteraction(JCAEndpointInteraction.java:429)
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Caused by java.lang.NullPointerException.
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Jan 3, 2009 10:58:06 AM oracle.integration.platform.blocks.adapter.fw.log.LogManagerImpl log
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Jan 3, 2009 10:58:06 AM oracle.integration.platform.blocks.adapter.fw.log.LogManagerImpl log
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Any help is greatly appreciated.
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hi Sudeep,
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DB adapter is in down state and when trying to make it up gives below error:
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I am new here and new to Data Services Desinger as well.
And currently, I want to do a merge operation using query transform or table comparison transform. But sadly, neither one of them is giving me what I want.
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if positive, then how?
PS:
by MERGE, i mean, if data exists in target table, then only do update, else, do insert. same with the standard MERGE operation of oracle.
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You don't need the Tabe_Comparison transform actually.
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Kind regads,
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Hi guys,
I have created a simple table with 4 columns:
EMPLOYEES
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- emp_firstname
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Xref output
none
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Thanks in advance.

Hi,
MDM provides Change Tracking functionality where you can track the changes like Record Addition, Modification and deletion. In case of Record Merging, it first delete the individual records to be merged and creats a new merged record. Hence you will find three entries in the Change Tracking if 2 records are involved in Merging process (depending on number of fields on which Change Tracking has been enabled).
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Change Tracking in MDM
You can also make the Change Tracking UI available in the Web tab of MDM Data Manager
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I have a scenario to merge multiple rows in to a single rows when the data in those rows fall in merge criteria .Below is how my data is
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the above rows should be
Here we combined Row 1 ,2, 3 in to a single row as the data in those rows permits to merge in to single row. But the row 4 cannot be combined to any of those rows because the data in those rows doesn't permits us do a merge ( As the value of the column
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Thanks for your reply .
Rule for merging is simple . First of all there is no unique row identifier for each row , the fact table is not having an identity column in the database . I called row 1 , row 2 etc in my post above only to make better explanation of my scenario.
The rule for merge is below.
1) we can combine only when the data in a column for one row is null & the data in same column for the other row is not null . It should also satisfy the condition where the data in other columns should conflict each other.
2) Data for all columns for the merging rows should not be conflicting (i.e. we should not merge the rows when the data in a column is not equal to the same column in the other row
,considering not null value)
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2) Then the resulting row is again merged with the second row which is present above by applying the rule 1 and rule 2 . Below would be output of merge operation.
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