UDF to convert Arabic into Hex

[Former Member]

Hi,

I have to convert an incoming Arabic string (Arabic letters) into the hex values in my message magging.

Can anybody help me with that UDF?

Thanks in advance

Dominic

[Former Member]

Hi Dominic,

Do you want to parse all received arabic chars received in your payload to their corresponding byte value and storing them in a byte array or something similar ?

Do you want to do this in a graphical msg mapping with a UDF function ?

For UDF function, you will have to parse the corresponding input node (plugged in a a java string ?) to a byte sequence serialized in an output node (string), ie :

"blabla" -> "626C61626C61"

If you still need to find a solution, let me know, I may have something similar (I do not have access to my sources at the moment), for I had to do this once

Rgds

Chris

[stefan_grube]

When you want to convert an arabic text string into hex, how should the hex string look like? How should the hex values be determined?

Regards

Stefan

[GabrielSagaya]

Hi,

Your encoding standard in your message mapping is UTF-8 by default.

Hence you have to change to ISO-8859-5 encoding format which supports your Arabic characters.

Hence you should perform either XSLT mapping or Java mapping for conversion.

<xsl:stylesheet version="1.0"

xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform">

<xsl:output method="xml" encoding="ISO-8859-1"/>

<xsl:template match="/">

<xsl:copy-of select="*" />

</xsl:template>

</xsl:stylesheet>

https://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/sdn/go/portal/prtroot/docs/library/uuid/502991a2-45d9-2910-d99f-8aba5d79...

[Former Member]

Hi Gabriel,

thanks for you response.

My scenario is the following:

I'm getting a message via a Z-RFC from ERP system. Only one field is filled with Arabic letters. As we are adviced to use message mapping, I have to convert the arabic valu of that field to a hex value because it's a requirement by the receiver.

So my only possibility is to write an UDF wich converts the value.

For that I need support in the Java development for the UDF.

Thanks in advance

Dominic

[GabrielSagaya]

if you want to replace all & to &amp;.

Here is a sample code:

code public void execute (InputStream in, OutputStream out)

throws StreamTransformationException {

try {

int c;

while ((c = in.read()) != -1) {

if (c != '&') {

out.write(c);

} else {

// ampersand

out.write("&amp;".getBytes());

}

} // while

out.flush();

} catch (Exception e) {

throw new StreamTransformationException(e.getMessage(),e);

}

}

Like wise you can change your arabic char set into corresponding UTF-8 char set.

[Former Member]

Hi Gabriel,

I don't want to replace all & to &....I just want to transform/convert an arabic string into hexadecimal values.

Like wise you can change your arabic char set into corresponding UTF-8 char set.

Can you explain me a little more what you mean with that?

Thanks & Regards

Dominic

[GabrielSagaya]

Hi

out.write("&".getBytes());

for eg

if you want to print Proctor & gamble in target, it wont print due to escape sequence '&'.

for that you are going to convert & into 'and' in target structure by java mapping.

likewise

what are all the arabian char you receive try to convert into your native understandable one format.

[Former Member]

Hi Gabriel,

do you mean I should replace every single arabic character with another character?

If so, 1st I don't speak arabic and 2nd this would be an enourmous effort.

I think there is a much easier way with some java functions...

Dominic