You can create new preprocessing and postprocessing actions, which are called custom callout
Custom callouts can be associated with either the source or the target. The sequence of processing action execution during a transfer is as follows:
Source preprocessing actions
Target preprocessing actions
Payload delivery
Target postprocessing actions
Source postprocessing actions
Here is the jar containing the interfaces -
YourFMW4MFTDir\mft\modules\oracle.mft_12.1.3.0\core-12.1.1.0.jar
Now before I get to my simple example, I just want to highlight the
excellent MFT resources available on the Oracle SOA PM blog.
Check it out
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The Simple Example
So now to my simple example -
I need to parse the files and convert the contents as follows -
Change any occurrences of Ireland to Eire
or
Change any occurrences Eire to Ireland and visa-versa.
The test file I use is as follows -
So I will expect the output to have Eire instead of Ireland.
Eire, for those interested is the Gaelic name for Emerald Isle.
Implement the Callout
I followed
this section from the MFT docs to create the Java class that will
do the conversion.
The code is very simple - the main jar required is here -
I add this to the JDev project -
Here is the implementation -
package mftcallout;
import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.BufferedWriter;
import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.DataOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.OutputStream;
import java.io.OutputStreamWriter;
import java.util.Map;
import oracle.tip.mft.engine.processsor.plugin.PluginContext;
import oracle.tip.mft.engine.processsor.plugin.PluginOutput;
import oracle.tip.mft.engine.processsor.plugin.PreCalloutPlugin;
public class NcIECallout implements PreCalloutPlugin {
public NcIECallout() {
super();
}
// Callout changes the payload
@Override
public boolean isPayloadChangeRequired(PluginContext context,
Map calloutParams) {
return true;
}
@Override
public PluginOutput process(PluginContext context, InputStream input,
Map calloutParams) {
return null;
}
@Override
public PluginOutput process(PluginContext context, InputStream input,
OutputStream out, Map calloutParams) {
String type = calloutParams.get("Type");
if ("Eire2Ireland".equals(type)) {
doConversionEire2Ireland(input,out);
}
else{
doConversionIreland2Eire(input,out);
}
return new PluginOutput();
}
private void doConversionIreland2Eire(InputStream in, OutputStream out) {
BufferedReader bufferIn = null;
BufferedWriter bufferOut = null;
try {
DataInputStream dataIn = new DataInputStream(in);
bufferIn = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(dataIn));
DataOutputStream dataOut = new DataOutputStream(out);
bufferOut = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(dataOut));
// For each line in the un-normalized file
String line;
while ((line = bufferIn.readLine()) != null) {
if(line.equalsIgnoreCase("Ireland")){
line = "Eire";
}
bufferOut.write(line);
bufferOut.write("\r\n");
}
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
} finally {
try {
bufferIn.close();
bufferOut.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
}
private void doConversionEire2Ireland(InputStream in, OutputStream out) {
BufferedReader bufferIn = null;
BufferedWriter bufferOut = null;
try {
DataInputStream dataIn = new DataInputStream(in);
bufferIn = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(dataIn));
DataOutputStream dataOut = new DataOutputStream(out);
bufferOut = new BufferedWriter(new OutputStreamWriter(dataOut));
// For each line in the un-normalized file
String line;
while ((line = bufferIn.readLine()) != null) {
if(line.equalsIgnoreCase("Eire")){
line = "Ireland";
}
bufferOut.write(line);
bufferOut.write("\r\n");
}
} catch (Exception e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
} finally {
try {
bufferIn.close();
bufferOut.close();
} catch (IOException e) {
throw new RuntimeException(e);
}
}
}
}
Now to the creation of the callout definition file -
The details here surface in the MFT console - i.e. the MFT user will be
able to add a pre-processing action - "Eire to Ireland text conversion"
I jar up the Java class and copy it, along with the xml file above to the following directory -
YourFMW4MFTDir\user_projects\domains\mft_domain\mft\callouts e.g.
Create this directory, is it doesn't already exist.
Now the next step is to register the new callout with MFT. We do this via WLST -
wls:/mft_domain/serverConfig> crtCalls('D:\Work\envs\FMW12c\MFT\user_projects\do
mains\mft_domain\mft\callouts\EireCalloutDef.xml')
Create a simple MFT Transfer to leverage the callout
Now I create a new source (File) in MFT and add a pre-processing step -
Now you can see how all of these values come from the callout definition file.
I then create a target and a transfer and test with the following file -
the output file is as follows -
btw. the Gaelic for England is Sasana, for France, is an Fhrainc.
Java Project here
