FTP Adapter Sender: Dynamic configuration of directory

[Former Member]

Hello all,

I need to read files from an FTP server.

The source directory contains the current date and hence changes everyday.

That means:

Today it's /home/user/out/20100519/ready/

Tomorrow it's gonna be /home/user/out/20100520/ready/

and so on.

Any idea how to set this up?

Thanks & regards

Rainer

[Shabarish_Nair]

>

> Hello all,
> 
> I need to read files from an FTP server.
> The source directory contains the current date and hence changes everyday.
> 
> That means: 
> Today it's		/home/user/out/20100519/ready/
> Tomorrow it's gonna be	/home/user/out/20100520/ready/
> and so on.
> 
> Any idea how to set this up?
> 
> Thanks & regards
> Rainer

/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2009/03/26/dynamic-configuration-vs-variable-substitution--the-ultimate-battle-for-the-file-name

using dynamicconfiguration cant you make the directory dynamic.

All you need is to have the current date as part of the string i.e /home/user/out/<YYYYMMDD>/ready/

[Zilch]

Thanks for your input.

I thought about using dynamic configuration, too. That would work fine for a receveiver adapter.

But in case of a sender adapter, I had to make a dynamic replacement before I have a message.

Hence: Before any mapping is executed.

How could I do that?

Best regards

Rainer

[MichalKrawczyk]

Hi,

>>>Any idea how to set this up?

yes

put all your file in one directory with this in the filename - 20100519_ready_

then in the filename in PI sender adapter you can specify a mask "ready"

so it will only pull the ready files

Regards,

Michal Krawczyk

[Zilch]

Hi Michal,

thanks for your response.

if changing the directory structure was possible, I wouldn't have posted this question.

But the structure is given and I have to cope with it. Somehow

Best regards

Rainer

[Shabarish_Nair]

my apologies on the earlier post.

I didnt notice it was for the sender adapter.

i guess as a standard feature the source folder cannot be dynamically changed.

Maybe a script can do the trick for you.