ION MessagingService for token inbound, if the data contains '&', an error occurs.

khj0801

When using ION MessagingService for token inbound, if the data contains '&', an error occurs.

sending data from POSTMAN to the EAM process through ION, if the data contains '&', it causes an error. How can we handle the conversion to '&'?

POST URL : " ">mingle-ionapi.se1.inforcloudsuite.com/.../message"

SEND XML :
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<messageRequest>
<documentName>Sync.TEST</documentName>
<messageId>msg#1</messageId>
<fromLogicalId>lid://infor.ims.token_cdata</fromLogicalId>
<toLogicalId>lid://default</toLogicalId>
<document>
<value>
{
"TESTSET": [
{
"TEST": "2041234&",
},
{
"TEST": "2041235&",
}
]
}
</value>
<encoding>NONE</encoding>
<characterSet>UTF-8</characterSet>
</document>
</messageRequest>

jschra

Hi Hyojin, 

the simple answer would be - the sender needs to send a proper formatted / escaped message. But if that is not an option then there are some other options unfortunate they all involve some kind of change.

- add in the value node a CDATA :   <value><![CDATA[   {your JSON}  ]]></value>

- use the multipart API {{APIBaseURL}}/IONSERVICES/api/ion/messaging/service/v3/multipartMessage -> here you have a field for the document MessagePayload  and a field for ParameterRequest for the control. Both messages would be json in this case.

- encode the value as base64  and set encoding in control part to base 64 as well <encoding>BASE64</encoding>

- make an API flow (and other system just sends the json and you add the control info in the flow) or use an API triggered Document flow with binary input and correct the data in a python script).

It all depends on what your sender can change - but you do need to submit proper escaped message to parsers.