Displaying/exporting PeopleSoft image/picture files

There isn't a good way to display/export images or picture files deliverd by PeopleSoft. Some smaller images can be viewed via Application Designer but not the ones that are used on fluid tiles. So wrote this small routine to view the images online as well as create a file with the same information which can be shared with the team.

For this POC running PT 8.58.x, HCM 9.2

Created a SQL object N_IMAGES_SQL, selecting image name and version from the PSCONTDEFN table. Selecting only SVG files as those are the ones generally used on fluid tiles. 

Created a page and added a long field of the type HTML Area to the page. 

N_TEST_WRK.HTMLAREA in the code below is that field.

So displaying the images returned by the SQL on the online page along with the image name. When this happens the images are also written to the web server cache folder. So created another string with path to the physical files in the web server cache folder and created an html file. Via a browser opened this html file and saved it as a pdf which can now be shared with the team.   

Complete peoplecode below

Output

Sending and Receiving MTOM-encoded binary data

PeopleSoft supports the MTOM protocol for sending and receiving binary data using service operations. While you can send and receive binary data using SOAP, doing so requires that you Base64-encode the data, which can increase message size by 33 percent or more. The MTOM protocol enables you to send and receive binary data in its original binary form, without any increase in size due to encoding.

For sending or receiving MTOM-encoded binary data, we have to use message segments to store the data. The SegmentContentType property of the message object is used to set or read the content type of each message segment.

Following is a test that I did to send a XML file as an attachment in a SOAP message and then read the attachment that is sent by the 3rd party system that I am interacting with. I am running PT 8.53.22.

Sending:

Request message is as shown below. For this test I am storing this in a html object called as MY_MESSAGE but this can be generated dynamically as needed using SOAPDoc or XMLDoc classes. The request message defined on the service operation is nonrowset based. 

<soapenv:Envelope xmlns:soapenv="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

<soapenv:Header/>

<soapenv:Body>

<submitLargeDocument>        

    <Document>  

         <PsftXopInclude SegmentNumber='1'/> 

    </Document>      

</submitLargeDocument>

</soapenv:Body>

</soapenv:Envelope>

document.xml is my payload which I have created in a different routine and I am just using it here. Its just like creating any other XML file in PeopleSoft. Payload can be a binary file like a pdf or a image file.

Sender node is my default local node and receiving node is the delivered WSDL_NODE. You can always create a custom receiving node if needed. Routing is using local gateway and HTTPTARGET connector. Under routing, connector properties content-type is set to text/xml as my payload is a xml file, HTTPPROPERTY MTOM is set to Y, METHOD is POST, SOAPUpContent is set to N as I have already built the SOAP wrapper in my html object above. If you need IB to create the wrapper then set this property to Y. Provided PRIMARYURL to destination 3rd party application. Took all other defaults.

PeopleCode:

&str = GetHTMLText(HTML.MY_MESSAGE);

&requestXMLDoc = CreateXmlDoc();

&ret = &requestXMLDoc.ParseXmlString(&str);

&request = CreateMessage(Operation.SEND_OPERATION);

&request.SetXmlDoc(&requestXMLDoc);

&MTOMFile = GetFile("C:\temp\document.xml", "R", %FilePath_Absolute);

If &MTOMFile.IsOpen Then   

   &theBase64encodedString = &MTOMFile.GetBase64StringFromBinary();   

   &MTOMFile.Close();

End-If;

&request.CreateNextSegment();

If (&request.SetContentString(&theBase64encodedString)) Then   

    &request.SegmentContentType = "application/xml";  

    &request.SegmentContentTransfer = %ContentTransfer_Binary;

End-If;

&response = %IntBroker.SyncRequest(&request);

Receiving:

Response message defined on the service operation is a non-rowset based message. Sender node is the default local node and receiving node is WSDL_NODE. Using local gateway and HTTPTARGET connector. Setting HEADER properties Content-Type to text/xml as the response attachment that I am receiving is a xml file, sendUncompressed is Y, HTTPPROPERTY Method is POST and SOAPUpContent is Y and finally the PRIMARYURL to the 3rd party service.

On the weblogic webserver, in the integrationGateway.properties file enable the MTOM Listening Connectors. 

ig.MTOM.enablePeopleSoftServiceListeningConnector=true

ig.MTOM.enableHttpListeningConnector=true

Bounce the webserver after making this change.

PeopleCode:

This is pretty straightforward. Once the request is made, read the response and parse out the document.

&response = %IntBroker.SyncRequest(&request);

&responseXMLDoc = &response.GetXMLDoc();

If (&response.ResponseStatus = 0) Then

     &dataNode = &responseXMLDoc.DocumentElement.GetElementByTagName("data");

     &theData = &dataNode [1].GetCDataValues();

     &responsestr = &theData.Shift();

End-If;

The &responsestr string variable will have the response SOAP envelope as well as the attachment separated by message segments as shown below. Parsed it out using string functions.

<?xml version="1.0"?>

<data psnonxml="Yes">

  <![CDATA[

------=_Part_624_1792156364.1458048147094

Content-Type: application/xop+xml; charset=UTF-8; type="text/xml"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Content-ID: <soap.xml@xfire.codehaus.org>

<soap:Envelope xmlns:soap="http://schemas.xmlsoap.org/soap/envelope/">

<soap:Body>

.......

.......

.......

</soap:Body>

</soap:Envelope>

------=_Part_624_1792156364.1458048147094--

------=_Part_724_1792156364.1458048147094

Content-Type: application/xop+xml; charset=UTF-8; type="text/xml"

Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit

Content-ID: <soap.xml@xfire.codehaus.org>

<Document>

........

........

........

</Document>

------=_Part_724_1792156364.1458048147094--

]]>

</data>