Hi, I have to deal with "weird" dataformats quite regularly. Think of SAP-HCM or edifact.
SAP HCM looks like this (to quote from http://www.ringholm.de/docs/00630_en_SAP_ISH_HL7.htm): HCM messages are defined as a sequence of segments (identified by a 3-character name, e.g. HEA, PAT, FAL, END). The contents of the HCM segments are loosely based on HL7 version 2. Each segment is defined as a sequence of fields. Each field has a fixed-width – filled with trailing spaces if the actual data is of a smaller size. A HCM message is communicated as one long string which consists of the concatenation of (segment names, field contents in a segment). How would you unmarshal/marshal that with Camel? I tried HCM with Beanio and it kinda works but not very elegantly. For edifact this is not going to work. I understand from the docs that one could use smooks with Camel and Smooks could parse edifact and my weird formats. However I did not find any useful examples on how to use those together. And I am unsure about the state of the smooks project. How would you guys do that? Cheers, Thomas.
