Regex Content Based Routing Question

[davidjcook10]

I'm new to JBoss ESB and I'm trying to get the regex content-based-router to work.  Basically I have several different types of fixed-length files that I want to route to different transformers based on their content.

The fun_cbr quickstart and the documentation (Section are both pretty clear on the syntax.

I have a file listener set up listening to a local folder (that works because I'm System PrintLn the file to the console and I see it).

The first line of the file looks like this:

1540ER00032006000000010

My CBR action looks like the following:

<

action class="org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.ContentBasedRouter" name="TraqsReportType">

<property name="cbrAlias" value="Regex"/>

<property name="ruleLanguage"/>

<property name="ruleReload" value="true"/>

<property name="destinations">

<route-to destination-name="Payroll" service-category="Payroll" service-name=expression="1540RP10" />

<route-to destination-name="ER" service-category="ER" service-name="ER" expression="1540ER"/>

</property>

</action>

When the file referenced above get dropped into the watch folder, my previous action in the action chain properly displays the message on the console and then my content-based router action generates the following error message

16:04:13,516 ERROR [ContentBasedWiretap] No rule destination(s) [ER, Payroll] were matched, . Please fix your configuration and/or routing rules.

I've tried switching to a regex-rules.properties and even tried .* as a regex to match and I always get the No rule destinations were matched error.

I'm clearly missing something fundamental, but I don't know what it is.

djc

[tcunning]

<route-to destination-name="Payroll" service-category="Payroll" service-name=expression="1540RP10" />

Didn't take a long look at this but service-name=expression= obviously a problem.       If you fix that does it help?

[davidjcook10]

DOH! Sorry to waste time with that silly typo.  Unfortunately that wasn't the issue.  Still getting same errors.  I'm sure, it's some basic knob I haven't turned the right way, but I can't find the right knob or the right way to turn it.

I've attached my complete jboss.esb file rather than trying to copy and paste it in.

djc

[tcunning]

Okay, it looks like the problem is your expressions.      This is what is being tested :

                return regexExpression.matcher((CharSequence) objectToTest).matches();

where objectToTest is the file contents and regexExpression is your expression as a java.util.regex.Pattern, which are somewhat different from Perl-style regexes.      I bet if you compile a small example program focusing on testing your input and regexes with  just that line above, you could have this worked out in minutes.