Message mapping with attachments?

[Former Member]

Hi there,

I want to read in two flat files and process them afterwards in the XI (message mapping and such).

I know that it is possible via BPM (as discussed here, for example: ). But I'm told to do it via the file adapter's "Specifying Additional Files" ( http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/ae/d03341771b4c0de10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm ), where those additional files are attached to the message. The advantage of this approach is that I can tell the File Adapter to only start when both files are present (--> optional = NO). This is not possible with the BPM method, is it?

I haven't found a way to use the attached file(s) in a message mapping - apart from using ABAP mapping or implementing a adapter module that merges the attachment into the payload. Both possibilities seem to need way more effort than I feel should be necessary...

Thanks in advance!

Dennis

[STALANKI · Accepted solution]

Try java mapping instead

[MichalKrawczyk · Accepted solution]

try the adapter module instead

Regards,

michal

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Too bad it doesn't work this way - but at least I know it now. Thanks a lot, all!

Dennis

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Dennis,

Try using XSLT mapping, its very easy to read an external file.

Thanks,

Yaseen M

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

Check out the link

/people/sundararamaprasad.subbaraman/blog/2005/12/09/making-csv-file-lookup-possible-in-sap-xi

Thanks,

Yaseen M

[stefan_grube]

Hi Dennis,

I found a solution for XSLT mapping of attachments:

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/3823 [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken]

Regards

Stefan

[stefan_grube]

Hi Dennis,

When you combine Alessandro's Bean

/people/alessandro.guarneri/blog/2006/03/16/xi-mapping-module-for-afw

with PayloadSwapBean, you can use Message Mapping for attachments in the sender file adapter.

Regards

Stefan

[Former Member]

Hi all!

Thanks once again for your kind help! We finally agreed to take the BPM approach nevertheless, as it's "nearest to the standard" and thus (hopefully) easiest to maintain.

We inserted a time-out into the BPM, so that it will abort after a short time when only one file was present. Not perfect, but good enough.

The advantage of this solution is that we can convert the CSV files to XML within the File adapter again. Both calling a MapForce transformation and afterwards combine the XML files within an Adapter module really doesn't sound like the optimal way...

Cheers,

Dennis

[stefan_grube]

> I haven't found a way to use the attached file(s) in

> a message mapping

This is not possible.

Regards

Stefan