RSS Adapter

The RSS Adapter consumes RSS feeds and translates them into item batches for your BizTalk Server.

Remarks

Really Simple Syndication (RSS) is a popular and widely used syndication format. The RSS Adapter extends your BizTalk Server with the ability to consume any syndicated content that uses the RSS format.

RSS Receive Adapter

The RSS Receive Adapter is a simple RSS client that can fetch a publicly syndicated feed. Each individual RSS item in the feed is pulled out and treated as its own message, and the adapter will submit the feed as a batch composed of these messages.

The target feed is specified by FeedURL. If the PollingInterval is set to a low value, the adapter can potentially submit multiple duplications of the same message by fetching the same copy of the target feed. To ensure that this does not happen, the adapter requires that a CacheFile and CachePeriod be set so that the adapter can keep track the incoming RSS items.

The RSS Send Adapter has support for SSL transport layer security. This may be enabled by setting SSLCert and SSLAcceptServerCert to appropriate values.

Please refer to the section on adapter configuration for a description of how to configure receive locations and send ports for this adapter.

Receiver Property List

The following is the full list of the properties of the receiver adapter with short descriptions. Click on the links for further details.


CacheFile	A file to be used for caching the incoming RSS feed.
CachePeriod	The number of days to store cached RSS item information.
ErrorThreshold	The maximum number of errors before the adapter shuts down.
FeedURL	The URL to poll for RSS feeds.
Firewall	A set of properties related to firewall access.
FollowRedirects	Determines what happens when the server issues a redirect.
HTTPAuthScheme	The authorization scheme to be used when server authorization is to be performed.
HTTPPassword	A password if authentication is to be used.
HTTPProxy	A set of properties related to proxy access.
HTTPUser	A user name if authentication is to be used.
MaxBatchSize	The maximum size, in MB, of the current batch (0 indicates no limit).
MaxFileCount	The maximum number of files in the current batch (0 indicates no limit).
MaxFileSize	The maximum size, in MB, of a file in the current batch (0 indicates no limit).
MaxThreads	The maximum number of threads that the adapter may consume.
Other	Defines a set of configuration settings to be used by the adapter.
PollingInterval	The amount of time, in seconds, between download attempts.
RequeueEndpoints	Whether to requeue receive endpoints if the polling interval has not been reached.
RuntimeLicense	Specifies the adapter runtime license key.
SSLAcceptServerCert	Instructs the adapter to unconditionally accept the server certificate that matches the supplied certificate.
SSLCert	The certificate to use for client authentication during the SSL handshake.
Timeout	A timeout for the adapter.
TransportLog	Tells the adapter where and how to report information about its operations.
URI	The Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) of the send port or receive location.

Configuration Settings

The following is a list of configuration settings for the adapter with short descriptions. Click on the links for further details.


HTTPAuthorization	The Authorization string to be sent to the server.
SSLEnabledProtocols	Used to enable/disable the supported security protocols.
AbsoluteTimeout	Determines whether timeouts are inactivity timeouts or absolute timeouts.
LocalHost	The name of the local host or user-assigned IP interface through which connections are initiated or accepted.
TcpNoDelay	Whether or not to delay when sending packets.
UseManagedSecurityAPI	Tells the adapter whether or not to use the system security libraries or a managed implementation.