This post is a response to one of my friend's question. Can we get a SIF file of an applet from a SRF file?
Scenario: We have a customized SRF file, connection to server DB and sample DB. Now we know that the Contact list applet is customized and compiled onto this SRF. Now we want to get a SIF file of the SRF.
Solution: Most of the people I approached, said it is not possible. But there is a solution!!
If you have a SIF file, try opening it with Notepad++ and observe that the SIF file is a Structured XML.
This gave me the idea. If I can build an XML similar to the SIF and save it as .SIF file, I will have my SIF file ready.
Step 1: First I created a dummy applet with all the child entities like Applet Browser Script,Controls, Menu Items etc. This step is to make sure that you have a dummy XML with all the applet elements in it. Exported it as a SIF file. Open the file with notepad++ and copy the XML. Using any online source, convert this XML to XSD. (I used this). Create an Integration Object using this XSD (use EAI XSD Wizard). Now this is the structure we want to get a new SIF file. Name the IO as Siebel Information IO.
Step 2: Create a new Siebel BO based IO (EAI Siebel Wizard) using BO Repository Applet. This is a vanilla BO. Make sure to include all the child items (Applet Menu, Web template Item,Applet Server Script etc) while creation. Name it as Repository Applet IO.
Step 3: Create a new IO data mapper under Administration Integration with destination IO as Siebel Information IO and source as Repository Applet IO.
Make sure you map all the fields properly. Get the project and repository details from Repository Applet IC fields (Project Name, Repository Name etc) and map the same. Compile the changes to your custom srf.
Step 4: Create a workflow with first step to query Repository Applet IO using EAI Siebel Adapter. Provide the Applet name as Input to query. In second Step, map the Repository Applet IO to Siebel Information IO using EAI Data Transformation Engine service. In the subsequent steps, convert the EAI Siebel Message to XML (EAI XML Converter) and write the file (EAI XML Write to File) to a location with name "Contact Form Applet.sif".
Simulate the Workflow in your application connecting to your DB after opening it using your custom SRF and voila!! you have your SIF file with object definitions from your custom SRF.
What I did was: identified how siebel stored information in sif files, identify how siebel repository BO stores the information, query a siebel BO based IO, map to sif structure and write to sif file.
Go ahead and try it. It is a time taking process but it is worth if you have this kind of requirement. We can extract SIFs like Business Components, Business Services etc using Repository Business Component, Repository Business Service IOs. We can do this for all the objects in tools.
Let me know your thoughts on this!!
Scenario: We have a customized SRF file, connection to server DB and sample DB. Now we know that the Contact list applet is customized and compiled onto this SRF. Now we want to get a SIF file of the SRF.
Solution: Most of the people I approached, said it is not possible. But there is a solution!!
If you have a SIF file, try opening it with Notepad++ and observe that the SIF file is a Structured XML.
This gave me the idea. If I can build an XML similar to the SIF and save it as .SIF file, I will have my SIF file ready.
Step 1: First I created a dummy applet with all the child entities like Applet Browser Script,Controls, Menu Items etc. This step is to make sure that you have a dummy XML with all the applet elements in it. Exported it as a SIF file. Open the file with notepad++ and copy the XML. Using any online source, convert this XML to XSD. (I used this). Create an Integration Object using this XSD (use EAI XSD Wizard). Now this is the structure we want to get a new SIF file. Name the IO as Siebel Information IO.
Step 2: Create a new Siebel BO based IO (EAI Siebel Wizard) using BO Repository Applet. This is a vanilla BO. Make sure to include all the child items (Applet Menu, Web template Item,Applet Server Script etc) while creation. Name it as Repository Applet IO.
Step 3: Create a new IO data mapper under Administration Integration with destination IO as Siebel Information IO and source as Repository Applet IO.
Make sure you map all the fields properly. Get the project and repository details from Repository Applet IC fields (Project Name, Repository Name etc) and map the same. Compile the changes to your custom srf.
Step 4: Create a workflow with first step to query Repository Applet IO using EAI Siebel Adapter. Provide the Applet name as Input to query. In second Step, map the Repository Applet IO to Siebel Information IO using EAI Data Transformation Engine service. In the subsequent steps, convert the EAI Siebel Message to XML (EAI XML Converter) and write the file (EAI XML Write to File) to a location with name "Contact Form Applet.sif".
Simulate the Workflow in your application connecting to your DB after opening it using your custom SRF and voila!! you have your SIF file with object definitions from your custom SRF.
What I did was: identified how siebel stored information in sif files, identify how siebel repository BO stores the information, query a siebel BO based IO, map to sif structure and write to sif file.
Go ahead and try it. It is a time taking process but it is worth if you have this kind of requirement. We can extract SIFs like Business Components, Business Services etc using Repository Business Component, Repository Business Service IOs. We can do this for all the objects in tools.
Let me know your thoughts on this!!
It will give you definition form your repository in db, not from SRF
ReplyDeleteYou can get some info from SRF* business component, but not everything
ReplyDeleteThank you for providing good information from Kexlin
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This certainly does not work, any definition coming will only be coming from DB. As when you query the IO the data will show values of Repo/DB, not SRF. The method works as just another way of taking SIF from Siebel Tools, but not generating SIF from SRF.
ReplyDeleteI tried with an applet by changing the script after compilation in Siebel IP 15. On running the WF, the SIF was generated with script present in tools not SRF.
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