IDocReader Component

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The IDocReader component is used to parse IDoc documents.

Syntax

nsoftware.InERP.Idocreader

Remarks

The IDocReader component allows you to easily parse an IDoc from a file, a stream, or from memory. You can parse documents that are formatted in either plain text or XML. To do so, you need to follow the steps below:

1. Import schema, this can be done one of two ways:
   • Use the ImportSchemaFromSAP method to retrieve the schema directly from SAP
   • Use the ImportXMLSchema method to retrieve the XML schema directly from disk
2. Load the IDoc Data into the component using one of the following methods:
   • Specify the file to read in the InputFile property
   • Provide the data directly from memory using the InputData property
   • Set the input stream using the SetInputStream method
3. Call the Parse parse method

During parsing, the component performs basic validation of the incoming document. If validation fails, a warning is generated, and the Error event will fire, populating the ErrorOffset property with the offset in the document where the error occurred.

In order to navigate the document, you will need to use the XPath property, like so:

/segmentA[1]/childSegmentC[2]/grandChildSegmentA[1]

This example path means that the component will select the first grandChildSegmentA in the second childSegmentC in the first segmentA.