Sender file adapter dropping last column during content conversion

I am trying to process a flat file with pipe delimited data, but when the last column of the file is empty the file adapter ignores the column, causing issues with the subsequent mapping program. For example, if the file contains the following data..
1||three|
... the converted content produced is...
 <column1>1<column1>
 <column2/>
 <column3>three</column3>
My mapping is expecting that <column4/> also be delivered in order to function properly. The fields are all defined in record.fieldNames, and if there is any data present following the third pipe it is assigned correctly to the column4 element. I have also experimented with setting missingLastFields to "add", and tried explicitly specifying endFieldSeparator to 'nl' with no success.
Is there anyway to control this behavior in the communication channel, or is my only option to to account for it within the mapping by using mapWithDefault function for every field that appears at the end of a record?

Nataliya,
Ensuring that the element is populated during the mapping appears to be the only way to account for this. Therefore, whenever mapping the last column of a record set, I just made sure to use the MapWithDefault function in case the last field of the record is empty. It's a little extra manual effort, but it appears to be working fine so far. I was hoping for a better answer myself.

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Hi All,
Like in Sender File Adapter configuration like we have Document Offset to specify the number of starting lines to be ignored,
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Rahul,
>I somehow wait for your answer,
Is that a compliment
I guess there is no standard way to ignore the last line . Like you pointed out, read the line and ignore it in the mapping!
>btw ..
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I'm trying to parametrize my sender file adapter content conversion.
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I got a scenario where I need to convert the File to XML document through Sender file adapter..
My file looks like below.
BATCH1234........
12DASER123142JMM
237DSAFDLKC839890
45SDFLASJ90011
BATCH3455...
132FGAR
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BATCH998898...
123145DSRTW
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My XML Structure is as follows.
<TimeStructure>
<TimeRecord>
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 <Field2> ...</Field2>
 </ControlRec>
 <DataRec>
 <F1> ...... </F1>
 <F2> ...... </F2>
 </DataRec>
</TimeRecord>
<TimeRecord>
 <ControlRec>
 <Field1> BATCH </Field1>
 <Field2> ADFAS </Field2>
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 </DataRec>
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is somewhat relevant to my requirement.
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Please help me out how to mention the configuration parameters.
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Hi,
If you don't have constant key value for your detail records, then you can not directly get the required xml.
So in this case, you can read all the records in a common Row model, i.e each record will be considered as a one row with all the values, and then split this row with Substring or java functions in the mapping.
Even you can do this in the Adapter module .
If you have key value for each record to identify then you can try with content conversion.
Regards,
Moorthy

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Hi Shankar,
1) My Expected XML Structure:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" ?>
- <ns:MT_IV01 xmlns:ns="http://ms.com/dev/ms">
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<D_9901>IV01</D_9901>
<D_9902>672633SAP</D_9902>
<D_9903>676968</D_9903>
<D_9904 />
<D_9905 />
<D_9906>NL51</D_9906>
<D_9907>02</D_9907>
<D_9908>11</D_9908>
</DT_SMESS>
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<D_C022>678713</D_C022>
<D_C023>676968</D_C023>
<D_C008>070416</D_C008>
<D_C111>IV01'3</D_C111>
<D_H559>11</D_H559>
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<D_C024>678714</D_C024>
<D_D333>PDA and'IND 2'9206 AD'Dtn'IN+</D_D333>
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- <DT_IVDA_2>
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</DT_IVDA_2>
- <DT_IVNR_2>
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<D_H364>676968add1</D_H364>
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Document Name: MT_IV01
Document Namespace: http://ms.com/dev/ms
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Recordset Sequence: Ascending
Key Field-type : String (Case-sensitive)
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thanks for the helpful answers.
So i tried Jayan tip and removed the begin Separter.
Unfortuantly my file is really looking like this |H|...|...| for the header record
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In my opinion this means i really do have a begin seperator which is the same like the field separator.
When i removed it from both the file and the config it started to work.
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The inbound file has file has ~ as record delimeter. I am using the FCC at sender file adapter to covert this file into XML. Somehow, the file adapter is not able to interpret "~" as my record delimeter even thoough I specified "record.endSeparator = ~" in FCC.
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Raju,
You can also try to use the '0x7E' as endSeperator condition.
I am not sure if the HTML tag will work but this should do the trick. This should be the HEX corresponding entry
char description hex char code html
" ~ " "Tilde" "0x7e" "~" &!tilde; (without !)
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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nwpi71/helpdata/en/44/655453b48a4ddfe10000000a1553f7/frameset.htm
Special Characters in Strings for Separators
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File content Conversion Issuse for a Sender File Adapter

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<HEADER>
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 <DATA2>
 <DATA3>
 <HEADER>
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Sridhar,
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<Message Type>
 <Recordset> - root node
 <ROW> - element with occurence 0..unbounded
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<ROW> header record </ROW>
<ROW> item record 1 </ROW>
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Hi guys,
Im using a Sender File adapter with file conversion. The message to be processed has a structure with fixed lengths and in your content are some values that needs to be ignored.
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Success     Application attempting to send an XI message asynchronously using connection AFW.
Success     Trying to put the message into the send queue.
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Success     Confirmation mode test found. File will be resent next time
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Success     The asynchronous message was successfully scheduled to be delivered at Sun Jan 09 19:13:21 CST 2005.
Success     The message status set to WAIT.

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RefToMsg ID
Conversation ID
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Action   Namespace: http://erc.ge.com/cdw/poc Name: ReadFile
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Times Failed   4
Number of Retries   3
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Transmitted / Delivered 01/10/2005 12:57:33
Next Delivery 01/10/2005 12:57:33
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Address   http://kansbwul01:50000/sap/xi/engine/entry?action=execute
Credential   SAPPasswordCredential(XIAFUSER):password=********:sapclient=100:saplang=
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hi all,
i have a wierd problem...
i use a sender file adapter with content conversion to read the data of a file.
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140
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sorry but it still doesn't work...
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null
Message was edited by:
 ajay pant

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/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2005/09/09/xi-alerts--step-by-step
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Fred

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http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/2c/181077dd7d6b4ea6a8029b20bf7e55/content.htm
missingLastfields
If the inbound structure has less fields than specified in the configuration then the XML outbound structure is created as follows:
○       ignore
Outbound structure only contains the fields in the inbound structure
○       add
Outbound structure contains all fields from the configuration; the fields missing in the inbound structure are empty.
○       error
Conversion is terminated due to the incomplete inbound structure. An error message is displayed
regards,
francis

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I have created a sample code and deployed in the server and when i refer that in the sender file adapter module processor using the naming format
localejbs/sap.com/com.vas.mod/GetFileNameBean
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can some one help me on this please?
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