Oracle SOA suite - File Adapter - Read File info without content

Introduction

Reading files using SOA Suite is very easy as the file-adapter is a powerful adapter. There may scenario where we just need to read file info without file content. In this blog we will see how to read file info without file content.

 Implementation the SOA Composite

• Create SyncFileRead  composite
• Add a File adapter to the “exposed services” swimlane, name it “ReadFileInfo”, Next
• Interface “Define from operation and schema”, Next
• Operation type “Read” and select “Do not use file content”, Next 

 

 

Choose input file folder 

 

Choose input file pattern

 

Choose polling frequency  and finish the wizard

 

Sync read BPEL process

 
 

Click on receive activity
 

 

Click on properties tab,  add two properties to  get  jca.file.FileName and jca.file.Directory from the adapter.  

Complie and deploy this process on SOA server.

Run Composite

Put any xml file inside input folder , in my case it is C:\Test\file\in

  
After the polling interval, you’ll see an instance for the the composite. You can see file name and directory path for the input file.

 

In next blog we will see how to process large files through SOA Suite using Synchronous File Read.