Special Characters handling

[Former Member]

Hello PI experts,

I am on PI 7.1.

From a legacy system, I am getting a SOAP message, which might contain special characters. If that happens, mapping fails in PI.

I know this can be handled using a Java Mapping. But my question for the forum is -

Which is a better approach - clean up the data in the legacy system (this is possible in the source system) or PI should be doing that? And WHY?

Thanks,

--Abhi

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Abhi,

Which is a better approach - clean up the data in the legacy system (this is possible in the source system) or PI should be doing that? And WHY?

As you correctly mentioned, this is possible in PI by using a Java Mapping. But if the source system can clean the data, then I am not convinced to do this activity in PI.

Regards,

Neetesh

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

We have decided to clean up the data in the source system itself.

Thanks everyone!

--Abhi

[stefan_grube]

It could for a good suggestion to know, what special character it is.

[Former Member]

Thanks Neetesh and Stefan !

@ Stefan - these are ASCII Control characters. These characters causes runtime exception in mapping.

Thanks,

--Abhi