SAP PI HTTP Adapter Capability

[Former Member]

Hi Experts,

I'd like to know if PI's HTTP Adapter supports HTTP posts with multipart/form-data content type. If it's not possible, what's the possible alternative?

Cheers,

R-jay

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Yes. HTTP adapter supports multipart content type. but just wants to know , you wanna use HTTP sender or receiver?

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi Rajesh,

It is used for HTTP Receiver. Is this possible for using it to send the message as an attachment using Plain HTTP. I thought of it as not possible since it resides in ABAP stack and I was thinking of resolving this by using SOAP Adapter instead.

[Former Member]

Created a multipart adapter module from scratch. Concept is coming from how multipart messages are created and developed a code out from it. Headers are removed since its not mandatory. Adjust SOAP Receiver comm channel not to send response and remove SOAP envelope.

[bhavesh_kantilal]

Would be great if you can blog this or provide us with the adapter module code snippets.

Though it sounds simple, I am sure it wouldn't have been that easy

Regards,

Bhavesh

[errol_sayre]

Have you had a chance to make this a blog post yet? What you're trying to do seems to be almost identical to what I need to build.

[baskar_gopalakrishnan2]

>> I'd like to know if PI's HTTP Adapter supports HTTP posts with multipart/form-data content type. If it's not possible, what's the possible alternative?

See this link...

[stefan_grube]

When you want to upload an XML message with a web form, then you can do this with help of the prolog/epilog section, where you put the form data parts.

You need to know, how your HTTP body should look like, then you can give it a try.

Another option is creating the whole HTTP body with a Java mapping or using a Java Proxy to do the HTTP post.

[Former Member]

Hi Stefan,

I'm planning to use SOAP Adapter to send the data to target system using since HTTP Adapter can't be used to send message with attachment (provided that Java Mapping won't be used). Is it possible for SOAP Adapter (receiver) to be an alternative of HTTP Adapter by configuring the adapter not to send SOAP Envelope, would it still expect to receive a SOAP response?

R-jay

[stefan_grube]

> would it still expect to receive a SOAP response?

No, it would work like HTTP adapter and not expect a SOAP response.

I have no clue, how you want to provide formdata with SOAP adapter. Would you share your experience, when you finish it?

[Former Member]

Hi Stefan,

>Would you share your experience, when you finish it?

Sure thing!