fs-provider Include a timestamp in the post filename to avoid name clash

[stsc]

I'm using an fs-provider to pickup files and put them on the ESB.

I cannot control the system that deliver files, so over time there might be two files with the same name but different content. For logging purpose, I would like to keep the original file with a timestamp appended, e.g.: input.csv to become input.csv.20120111.155800.ok.

The last part of the suffix (.ok) is quite easy, but how about the date part? (20120111.155800) year-month-day-hour-min-sec?

My fs-provider tag look like this:

<fs-provider name="FSprovider">

         <fs-bus busid="consumer-update-gw">

                <fs-message-filter directory="${consumer.update.dir}"

                                   input-suffix=".csv"

                                   post-delete="false"

                                   error-delete="false"

                                   post-directory="${consumer.update.post-dir}"

                                   post-suffix=".ok"

                                   work-suffix=".work"

                                   error-directory="${consumer.update.error-dir}"

                                   error-suffix=".esbError"

                                    />

        </fs-bus>

</fs-provider>

Is there a "tag" or something there can be used to format a date as part of the suffix?

regards

Steffen

[tcunning]

Hi Steffen,

There's not any sort of tag for that.     You probably have a number of options - change AbstractFileGateway.java to add it, create an aspect that intercepts AbstractFileGateway.processingComplete, or have another process which alters .ok messages by appending the datetimestamp.      There's probably other options too - those are the ones I can think of just off the top of my head.

[stsc]

OK. Thank you for the suggestions.

[dankibler]

Did you look at org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.naming.FileNameGeneratorAction and associated org.jboss.soa.esb.actions.naming.strategy.AddTimestampNamingStrategy?