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Status Delivered
Workspace App Connect
Created by Guest
Created on Aug 28, 2015

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Logging Renderers

Logging in Trace nodes can be very time consuming to develop. For example, to log the XMLNSC structure as a human readable XML string the following must be written in the trace node.

${CAST(ASBITSTREAM(Root.XMLNSC OPTIONS FolderBitStream CCSID 1208) AS CHAR CCSID 1208 ENCODING 0)}

This becomes very cumbersome. Also there is no easy way to format the XML with line breaks and tabs. In the Java world this is called 'pretty print'.

In other modern languages and frameworks, this is very trivial. In many cases a ToString() is simply called on the object.

Idea priority Medium
RFE ID 76271
RFE URL
RFE Product IBM App Connect Enterprise (formerly IBM Integration Bus)
  • Admin
    Ben Thompson
    Reply
    |     Oct 3, 2021

    Idea / RFE Review. Apologies for the length of time this RFE has been in Uncommitted Candidate status. Further to the earlier commentary on this RFE, the product has actually evolved significantly in this area with several features. The new unit testing framework which was introduced in ACE 12 provides a new Message Assembly file format (with extension .mxml) which allows data representing the logical message tree to be created and captured for unit testing purposes. We also have the ability to push data to an ELK stack (we began with flow statistics, and then later in ACEv12.0.2.0 we have added monitoring message event distribution too), and also provided JSON formats for logging renderers too. Given these large advances, and a lack of any further detailed feedback on the earlier questions posed, we are now closing this idea as delivered. On the off chance that you feel something else specific is still needed then please feel free to raise a new idea against the latest software levels and we would be happy to consider.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Jul 11, 2016

    Thanks for raising this RFE, and apologies for the delay in responding. We're updating the status of this RFE to Uncommitted Candidate to reflect that we're open to future improvements for helping users log data which is sent to backend systems for purpose of easy mocking during unit testing. The trace node is specifically intended to trace the logical tree structure which is passed between flow primitives rather than an on-the-wire serialized format, so we're not necessarily in favour of using the trace node for this purpose as this could easily confuse users. We also have the unit test feature available in IIB which provides a test data capturing mode (a nice write-up is available here: https://developer.ibm.com/integration/blog/2015/03/27/unit-testing-a-message-flow-in-ibm-integration-bus-10-0/) which might be the best place to cater for this high level requirement. Also note of course we have the Monitoring tab which can be used to capture a serialized form of the data from a particular point in a message flow.
    Status of the RFE is updated to Uncommitted Candidate, but any further information that you can provide to outline how we might meet this need but in areas other than the Trace node would be much appreciated. Best Regards, and thanks once again for raising this.

  • Guest
    Reply
    |     Oct 7, 2015

    Due to processing by IBM, this request was reassigned to have the following updated attributes:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Integration
    Product - IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker) - IIB

    For recording keeping, the previous attributes were:
    Brand - WebSphere
    Product family - Connectivity and Integration
    Product - IBM Integration Bus (WebSphere Message Broker) - IIB

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