EAI Developers Workshop

An Introduction to File Adapter

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TIB / File Adapter

The File adapter will be used to extract data from systems that have information located in flat file type databases. This allows you to read data and write data from files, publish and subscribe. The File Reader reads data from a file and publishes it onto the TIB as an Active Enterprise message. The File Writer writes data pulled off of Active Enterprise messages from the TIB. Each file reader can read and publish files from a different directory, and each file writer can subscribe to different TIBCO ActiveEnterprise subject names and write files to different directories. Here is a simple diagram illustrating this:

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TIB / File Adapter

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File Writer/FA Subscription

A file writer subscribes to a particular ActiveEnterprise subject and writes out the contents of the message received on that subject to a file. A file writer essentially works in the opposite manner as a file reader. When a message is received, the file writer writes out the contents of the message in the order that you specify. Each line written to a file represents an object contained in the message. The attributes of the object can be written out in any order and with any delimiter that you choose.

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FA Subscription Configuration

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FA Subscription Configuration
Log Files

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FA Subscription Configuration

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FA Subscription Configuration
Subscription Service Configuration

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FA Subscription Configuration

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FA Subscription Configuration

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FA Subscription Configuration
Modifying session specific parameters

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FA Subscription Configuration
Configuring File Schema

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FA Subscription Configuration

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FA Subscription Configuration

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File Reader/FA Publication

The file reader operates on a formatted text file. It takes each set of input lines of the file and parses it based on your specifications. This parsing layout that you setup transforms the incoming data into a TIBCO Active Enterprise object, which in turn can then be used to transform and map with other TIBCO utilities. The files can either be in delimited or positional format. A Delimited file is one that has entries separated by a specified character of delimitation. A positional file has no delimiters but each field is the same length so you can just type in the index that coordinates with the beginning and end of each field.
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FA Publication Configuration

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FA Publication Configuration
Log Files

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FA Publication Configuration

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FA Publication Configuration
Publication Service Configuration

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FA Publication Configuration

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FA Publication Configuration

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FA Publication Configuration
Modifying session specific parameters

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FA Publication Configuration
Configuring File Schema

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FA Publication Configuration

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FA Publication Configuration

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