FTP file name to metadata

[Skip Williams]

I am going to try my question a different way.

How can I store the original name of an input file using the

FTP protocol in the message metadata?  I am hoping to store it so it can be retrieved later.

Thank you.

Skip Williams

Peacehealth Interface Analyst

541 686-3710

skwilliams@peacehealth.org

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[Anonymous]

I haven’t done this but here’s what pours out of my mind at midnight…

In the directory parse tps you could limit the FTP get to only one file at a time and put that file name into a global variable.  Then in the IB data TPS put the contents of the global variable into either the driver control or userdata metadata fields.

[Nathan Martin]

It can be done by making a shared queue of filenames.

Filenames are put in the queue during directory parse, then they are removed from the queue and put in each respective file-message’s metadata in the inbound proc.  If you really want to, you can even convert your file data into a message format that holds the filename as well and then route that across sites.  (Something like xml, mime, tar, simple prefixed header.)

I’ve seen this done by using a plain old text file for the queue; for integrity, access to the queue file was synchronized using flock.

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