MQSeries.net :: View topic - Creating a string from a message tree fragment in Java

goffinf · Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 9:31 am Post subject:

I want to be able to access a part of a message passed into a JavaCompute node, turn it into a string and pass it to some external Java code. I tried something along the lines of the attached but it appears (?) from the help that the toBitStream method of MbElement will only operate on the message body itself.

[quote}Returns the bit stream representation of the element. This method causes the parser associated with the element to serialize the element and all its children. This method can only be called on the message body, i.e. the last child of the message root.[/quote]

Is there another way I can do this ?

Regards

Fraser.

public void evaluate(MbMessageAssembly contact admin) throws MbException {

MbMessage inMessage = contact admin.getMessage();
...

MbElement inMessageRoot = inMessage.getRootElement();
MbElement inboundmessageParser = inMessageRoot.getLastChild();
....

// navigate to the root element of the message body
MbElement MBServiceWrapper = inboundmessageParser.getLastChild();

// navigate to the part that Im interested in
MbElement originalXMLInstance = MBServiceWrapper.getFirstElementByPath("requestPayload/originalXMLInstance").getFirstChild();

// Now turn this into a String

// this fails
byte[] originalXMLbytes = originalXMLInstance.toBitstream(null, null, null, 0, 1208, 0);

// I was intending to do this next
String originalXMLString = null;
originalXMLString = new String(originalXMLbytes, "ascii");