Question Re: Content Conversion in Technology Q&A

Content Conversion

Former Member — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:52:02 GMT

Can someone tell me the exact meaning for the term File Content Conversion?

Also plz tell me that at the ID part of XI

under transport protocol, there r 2 options -

File System NFS and FTP

Can u plz tell me the difference between the two?

Which one to use when?

Thanx

Re: Content Conversion

Former Member — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:55:45 GMT

>>Can someone tell me the exact meaning for the term File Content Conversion?

Content Conversion used to convert non-xml file like comma separated files to XML and viceversa

>>Also plz tell me that at the ID part of XI

under transport protocol, there r 2 options -

File System NFS and FTP

Can u plz tell me the difference between the two?

Which one to use when?

NFS - to pick or drop file from/to local folder

FTP - to pick or drop file from/to FTP locations

rgds

Arun

Re: Content Conversion

Former Member — Thu, 08 May 2008 12:59:46 GMT

Hi,

Can someone tell me the exact meaning for the term File Content Conversion?

This is used in the following cases

1) If we have the .txt or csv file to be send to target

2) Now Xi can understand only XML

3) So we use FCC concept to convert that .txt into XML and send it ot target

In the receiver also happen like this

under transport protocol, there r 2 options -

File System NFS and FTP

Can u plz tell me the difference between the two?

We use NFS when ever the file is there in the same network

Ex: XI Server, or any of the machine in the same network

We use FTP, when ever there is a FTP Server availability

Regards

Seshagiri

Re: Content Conversion

Former Member — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:00:42 GMT

Hi Pankaj,

Content Conversion is converting the content (non-XML) in the payload to XML, because XI can understand only XML.

In File adapter Transport protocol you can find two options: NFS and FTP.

NFS: used when the source file exists in XI server or in the same network.

FTP: used when the source file exists remotely.

Also look at the same discussion:

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Regards

Bhanu

Intelligroup.

Edited by: Bhanu Tiruveedula on May 8, 2008 6:31 PM

Re: Content Conversion

sunil_singh13 — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:18:02 GMT

Hi Pankaj ,

Main use of Content conversion is to convert any data like values against its field which is not in xml formate

e.g

name age psno

Sunil 23 123456

Pankaj 23 23654

to convert in xml formate so that it will appeare as field and its corresponding value ,Many Fields under one node .so that it can be properly updated in any database.and hence by doing Content Conversion you can avaoid a complex java mapping .

+File System NFS and FTP+

Can u plz tell me the difference between the two?

Which one to use when?

IF you want to pick file from anf FTP then use FTP

and if you want to pick a file from any local network then use

NFS

Have a look at following links it will give you more cleare vision

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/03/introduction-to-simple-file-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart2

Have a look at the this blog by Arpit Seth ... its all about FCC at receiver side...

/people/arpit.seth/blog/2005/06/02/file-receiver-with-content-conversion

Also have a look at this thread.. might be helps you....

also

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Thanks

Sunil Singh

Re: Content Conversion

Former Member — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:54:44 GMT

Hi,

In XI we have two types of data that are XML and Non-XML.

If we want to send the XML data to XI then we use the File.

If we want to send the Non-XML data to XI then we use the File content conversion.

In file it directly goes to the XI server, but in File content conversion it should converts that data to XML after send to XI, because the XI understands only XML messages.

In ID

File System NFS : Suppose the source data is available in the same server in some directory or in other system in the same organization then we use this.

FTP : Suppose the source data is comming from other system(not our organization) then we go for the FTP. If we use FTP we should give that system details, like IP address,....

Re: Content Conversion

pradeep_nellore — Thu, 08 May 2008 13:57:10 GMT

Hi,

Check below links.

http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/2c/181077dd7d6b4ea6a8029b20bf7e55/content.htm

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1

/people/mark.finnern/blog/2003/09/06/anatomy-of-cool

Thanks

--Pradeep

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Re: Content Conversion

Former Member — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:56:04 GMT

HI,

Check the below links:

FCC:

Sender -

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/03/02/introduction-to-simplefile-xi-filescenario-and-complete-walk-through-for-starterspart1

Key value:

/people/venkat.donela/blog/2005/06/08/how-to-send-a-flat-file-with-various-field-lengths-and-variable-substructures-to-xi-30

/people/anish.abraham2/blog/2005/06/08/content-conversion-patternrandom-content-in-input-file

/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2005/08/17/nab-the-tab-file-adapter -

TAB delimited

/people/jeyakumar.muthu2/blog/2005/11/29/file-content-conversion-for-unequal-number-of-columns

/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2006/02/27/content-conversion-the-key-field-problem

/people/michal.krawczyk2/blog/2004/12/15/how-to-send-a-flat-file-with-fixed-lengths-to-xi-30-using-a-central-file-adapter

NAB the TAB (File Adapter)

/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2005/08/17/nab-the-tab-file-adapter

Receiver FCC no need of Endseparator

/people/shabarish.vijayakumar/blog/2007/08/03/file-adapter-receiver--are-we-really-sure-about-the-concepts

Receiver-

/people/arpit.seth/blog/2005/06/02/file-receiver-with-content-conversion

u can either go for java mapping

/people/rahul.nawale2/blog/2006/07/18/java-mapping-an-alternate-way-of-reading-a-csv-file

/people/venkataramanan.parameswaran/blog/2006/12/12/java-mapping-to-handle-flat-files-in-sap-xi

Thanks,

Soumya.