MQSeries.net :: View topic - Conversion error 'The field length was less than maxLen'

dougie · Posted: Fri Mar 05, 2004 1:39 am Post subject:

A 'The field length was less than maxLen' error was experienced when a 100 length XML field was being converted to a 100 length MRM field. The solution has worked for months and had no problems but has recently failed.

On inspection of the 100 bytes of data it was noticed that the data contained a 'Â£' sign and was thus converted to a 'AÂ£' by default when the XML was created. Consequently the field length was 101.

One would expect the broker to convert (back to 'Â£') and then validate the data length, however, in this case the broker must validate the length before converting and hence produces an error message (slightly misleading though it is).

Has anyone else experienced this sort of error and if so what solutions are available?

Thanks in advance.