XML File to network share

[Former Member]

Hi,

I'm following the instructions as laid out in the

"Rendering a DOM tree into an XML document" document via the SAP Library. It basically lays out creating an XML DOM and writing out that DOM. The example code works great if I want to write to the root drive of the application server using the following line of code:

oStream = streamFactory->create_ostream_uri ( system_id = 'file://test.out.xml' ).

Let me repeat the above works fine if I want to write to the application servers root drive. My problem is that I wish to write my XML file to a network share.

So far I've tried:

oStream = streamFactory->create_ostream_uri(
system_id = 'file:\servernametest.out.xml' ).

oStream = streamFactory->create_ostream_uri(
system_id = 'file://\servernametest.out.xml' ).

oStream = streamFactory->create_ostream_uri(
system_id = 'file:servernametest.out.xml' ).

Nothing seems to work. With each attempt a null is returned as reference to the oStream object. Am I doing something wrong? Did I miss something? Is this possible?

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks

Brian

[Former Member]

Hi,

I'm following the instructions as laid out in the

"Rendering a DOM tree into an XML document" document via the SAP Library. It basically lays out creating an XML DOM and writing out that DOM. The example code works great if I want to write to the root drive of the application server using the following line of code:

oStream = streamFactory->create_ostream_uri ( system_id = 'file://test.out.xml' ).

Let me repeat the above works fine if I want to write to the application servers root drive. My problem is that I wish to write my XML file to a network share.

So far I've tried:

oStream = streamFactory->create_ostream_uri(
system_id = 'file:\servernametest.out.xml' ).

oStream = streamFactory->create_ostream_uri(
system_id = 'file://\servernametest.out.xml' ).

oStream = streamFactory->create_ostream_uri(
system_id = 'file:servernametest.out.xml' ).

Nothing seems to work. With each attempt a null is returned as reference to the oStream object. Am I doing something wrong? Did I miss something? Is this possible?

Any help would be greatly appreciated...

Thanks

Brian

[christian_wohlfahrt]

Hi Brian,

just a option, which you didn't try:

system_id = 'file://servername/test.out.xml'

Some OS use forward slash, some backward. In Windows you use the backward slash (
servername), but it seems your application server expects '/' in path definition.

Regards,

Christian

[Former Member]

Thanks for the reply, I did try this:

system_id = 'file://servername/test.out.xml'

But received the same results.

[christian_wohlfahrt]

Hi,

it was worth a try. Otherwise I can't help much further, just one question (were I'm not any longer sure, if it's worth a try):

Can you access the network path from application server root, e.g. with LS (or DIR or CD) command? (Maybe your mounted volumes are linked on a different directory level.)

Regards,

Christian

[Former Member]

You can try the following instruction:

oStream = streamFactory->create_ostream_uri

( system_id = '
servername\filename.xml\' ).

This is because the function uses URL Format.

Also, you can replace servername with an IP address like

oStream = streamFactory->create_ostream_uri

( system_id = '
10.3.1.2\filename.xml\' ).

[Former Member]

Sorry, in my last post you have to remove the last '\' from the instructions.

The real code for both instructions is:

oStream = streamFactory->create_ostream_uri

( system_id = '
servername\filename.xml' ).

or

oStream = streamFactory->create_ostream_uri

( system_id = '
10.3.1.2\filename.xml' ).

Sorry.