I have a Biztalk 2006R2, which receives some flat files from publisher systems and then transfer these flat files to subscriber systems.
I would like to add the validation on these flat files, without transform it in to XML formatted files.
How should I proceed on it?
I have tried using "Flat File disassember", it can validate the flat file, but at the same time, it will transform the flat file into XML formatted files for further routing, which is NOT our target.
Any idea?
Thanks.
To answer you specific question, no. BizTalk cannot natively validate any message without converting to Xml or it being Xml originally.
In your situation though, this still shouldn't be a problem since the schema you use to disassembler to Xml and validate should also be able to re-serialize the Xml to ff.
So:
Receive the flat file and allow the Flat File Disassembler to parse and validate.
Route the Xml to a Send Port with a Flat File Assembler to convert the message back to the original format.
Technically, there are ways to actually preserve the original:
Write a custom Disassembler component that wraps the Flat File Disassembler and keeps a copy of the original stream.
Execute the Pipeline in an Orchestration.
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In my BizTalk Project, I need to have a Receive Pipeline that will disassemble four different flat files that each have a unique schema. That's to say, the pipeline must resolve the schema of the flat file sent through as 1 of 4 flat file schemas dynamically at runtime.
The best approach I have heard to do this is to just have 4 Flat File Disassemble shapes in the Disassemble stage of my pipeline. The logic behind this is that BizTalk will run through the disassemble shapes one by one until it matches the schema of the document to one of the schemas designated in the disassembler components - sort of like an if statement on the schema type. However, no matter which of the 4 documents I pass through, BizTalk seems to always want to go with the very first schema in line in the pipeline disassemble shapes.
So my question(s): Can someone explain in more detail exactly what happens when more than one flat file disassemble shape gets added to a pipeline? Is there a better alternative than to take this approach?
Exactly how the Flat File Disassembler probes the messages is not well documented. However, it usually doesn't matter because if it doesn't work, well, it just doesn't work in you case.
What you can do is wrap the Flat File Disassembler and implement you own, more robust, detection logic.
Here's an example: http://biztalkxin.blogspot.com/2012/11/biztalk-2010-create-dynamic-flat-file.html
Have you implemented IProbeMessage interface. This interface probe method allows to return true or false based on which pipeline execution goes to next pipeline component
We have built a custom pineline component using a flat file disassembler. The main purpose of this flat file disassembler is for flat file validation using the flat file schema.
Our purpose is: once the flat file received in receivelocation pass the flat file disassember (which mean the file format is correct), we would like to copy the original flat file (NOT the disassembled XML file) to another folder.
We have built a custom pipeline component for file copying, but if we place this component AFTER the flat file disassemblr component, we can only backup the disassembled XML file, not the original flat file.
Any idea how can we archive our purpose?
Thanks a lot.
I found an another approach while googling for the same issue..Instead of using custom pipeline component I found this approach very easy and useful..
here are the steps :
create Folders ReceiveIN,IN,Archive,OUT
Create a receive port say ReceivePortIN for folder ReceiveIN
Create a receive location for the above port with passthorugh pipeline
create another receive port IN for folder IN
Create a receive location for the above port with the
respective pipeline selected ..say if its a flat file then a flat
file disassembler pipeline.
Create a Send Port for the folder Archive and Create a Send Port for the folder IN
Filter through receive Port name "ReceivePortIN" and pipeline is passthrough. the file name could be given as %SourceFileName%' which outputs the file with the same file name as received for both the send ports
7.thus a copy of the file is archived before sending to your IN folder
Courtesy :https://blog.tallan.com/2010/03/26/biztalk-file-backup/
thanks ®ards
Silam
You have two options:
1 - Either copy the original file irrespective of whether flat file disassembler fails or pass. for this case you can use a decode stage pipeline component. This will be helpful for debugging when disassembler fails.
2. If your requirement is only to save the message after flat file disassembler, simpler solution is to create a send port with Flat file assembler which receives the disassembled xml and again converts it to flat file and send it another folder in addition to other processing.
I want to retrieve file(s) with ASP.NET Web Api, XML file(s) or zip file(s).
There are many examples how to do this, like this:
http://www.asp.net/web-api/overview/working-with-http/sending-html-form-data,-part-2
But the problem is, I don't want to save them on HDD!
I just want to validate the XML with some functions and generate a report on the fly and want to return this report.
But every tutorial use the "MultipartFormDataStreamProvider" witch save the files on HDD.
How can I get the file(s) and file name(s) in memory?
Kind regards
I think you can use the MultipartMemoryStreamProvider?
See a way to implement file upload without writing to the file system.
I have a receive pipeline with only a flat file dissambler in the dissamble stage,
but I need to change the encoding. The incoming file isn't utf-8 but it should be when it comes out.
See Tomas Restrepo's Fix Message Encoding Custom Pipeline Component here:
https://github.com/tomasr/fixencoding/tree/master/Winterdom.BizTalk.Samples.FixEncoding
Since the incoming file is not UTF-8 and you are using a flatfile disassembler, it means you must have defined a flat file XSD in your project. You use this flat file XSD in your pipeline componet at disassemble stage.
If the above is true, the easiest fix is to use the code page in your flat file schama(XSD) rather than the pipeline component or writing a custom pipeline component just to fix encoding. The screenshot below shows where you can set the source encoding.