Webservice that gets file without receiver

[Former Member]

Hello experts,

I want to know if following is possible in PI:

Let's say we have a SOAP Adapter that receives some input. The input is basically only a path/filename of a file I want to have. The process shall get me this file and return it base64 encoded back to the requester. There is no receiver it is just a sync request for a file.

So basically it is: give me file X, PI looks for the file gets it and returns it.

My question is:  Is this possible ? A scenario without receivers?

Thanks in advance

Aleks

[ambrish_mishra · Accepted solution]

Hi Aleksandar,

Your PI system can be the receiver here or you can make up a dummy receiver as well.

Hope it helps!

Ambrish

[Former Member]

Thanks guys the orignal question is answerd. I have an additional question, but I think i will ask it in another post.

[former_member190624]

Hi ,

Are you trying to call this kind of lookup (So basically it is: give me file X, PI looks for the file gets it and returns it.) in another mapping  or System ?

My question is:  Is this possible ? A scenario without receivers?

As Amrish & Ashok said it's possible .

Regards

Hari.

[Former Member]

Hi Hari

"Are you trying to call this kind of lookup (So basically it is: give me file X, PI looks for the file gets it and returns it.) in another mapping  or System ?"

Yes you are right I want to call this form another mapping in a lookup.

[Former Member]

Hi,

The above scenario is possible with both sender and receiver as XI.

And using ASMA, you can try to fetch the file from XI using NFS.

Thanks,

Ashok

[Former Member]

Hello Ashok thank you for your answer.

I tried to implement such a scenario. Getting the file from a network (or local) storage is just one option. But what if I decide to get the files not via the storage, but from an FTP. I want to be flexible and to be able to change the way I receive my file. My idea was to use the apdater for that but that seem not to work.

The following diagram shows what I tried to do and shows maybe clearer what I am trying to do:

Something like this should be possible. But i am not sure if this is the way to achiev this.

Thanks

Aleks