Mule: How to print the file name in logger? - mule

I want to print the mule configuration file name, in the logger in the flow, how can I get it?
Suppose the configuration file name in test.xml, inside that a flow is having logger, which prints test.xml, how can I get this?
<flow name="filenameFlow">
<http:listener config-ref="HTTP_Listener_Configuration" path="/Hello" doc:name="HTTP"/>
<logger message="#[app.name.toString()]" level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>
</flow>

[name.flow] is not correct one.
you should go with #[flow.name] which is the correct form. Don't mislead by your answers.
Thanks,

Should print out the name of your application, in you case "test". This is not however the name of the xml file. #[flow.name] will give you the name of the flow currently executing.

Try these expressions:
1) #[message.outboundProperties['originalFileName']]
2) #[header:originalFilename]

I have done almost the same thing a few days ago.
Add a global element of type property placeholder, give location: mule-deploy.properties.
In logger, use ${config.resources}.
It will work if there is only one config file.

Just as #dlb explained, I am also wondering you may have better solution for your requirement, basically I am asuming that you want to make log more transparent, and easier to locate which flow caused any event/error.
As such, it makes more sense to log flow name rather than the config file name, which may contain multiple flows.You can utilize the catagory in log component for this purpose:
<logger level="INFO" category="${application-prefix}.myMainFlow" doc:name="Logger" message="#['payload is ---\n' + payload]"/>
In each and every log component (logs should be used in important places kind of milestones), input ${application-prefix}.flowName in catagory (property is used for reusing application's name in all logs, and flowName should be hardcoded), then you will find logs like below in runtime:
INFO 2016-09-07 17:00:27,566 [[test].HTTP_Listener_Configuration.worker.01] com.myOrg.myApp.myMainFlow: payload is ---
Hello World

#[message.outboundproperties[originalFilename]]
Try this expression.

Related

Iterate over a directory and extract only file names without reading the payload

I am using the Mule 4.4 community edition on premise.
Thanks to help, I have been able to read a large file without consuming memory and processing it, which is all good (here).
Now building on this further - my use case is to read all .csv files from within a directory.
And then process them one by one:
\opt\out\
students.csv
teachers.csv
collesges.csv
....
So my plan was to list the files in the directory:
<sftp:list doc:name="List" config-ref="SFTP_Config" directoryPath="/opt/out">
<non-repeatable-iterable />
<sftp:matcher filenamePattern="#['*.csv' ]"
directories="EXCLUDE" symLinks="EXCLUDE" />
</sftp:list>
And then I wanted to only read file names from directory and not read payload.
As per this early access article we are advised to use <non-repeatable-iterable />. However, after the list file operation as per article when I try to extract attributes:
<set-payload doc:name="Set Payload" value="#[output application/json --- payload map $.attributes]"/>
No attributes are available... (my plan is to extract the file names and then run a for loop for each file name and then a choice condition to determine if file name has student, use student transformer, if teacher use teacher transformer, etc.)
However, as attributes are not available, I am not able to pass file names to the for loop (yet to be written).
So I changed from <non-repeatable-iterable /> to <repeatable-in-memory-iterable />
Code below:
<sftp:list doc:name="List" config-ref="SFTP_Config" directoryPath="/opt/out">
<repeatable-in-memory-iterable />
<sftp:matcher filenamePattern="#['*.csv' ]"
directories="EXCLUDE" symLinks="EXCLUDE" />
</sftp:list>
Using the above, I can extract the attributes of file names.
I am confused about the following:
The files to be processed in the above directory will be large (each file 700 MB), so while iterating the directory by using repeatable-in-memory-iterable, will it cause any memory issues? (I do not want to read file content, simply get file names at this stage)
Here is the complete payload till now (note - it does not contain any for loop to iterate over files, which I will plug in...)
<flow name="employee-process-flow">
<http:listener doc:name="Listener" config-ref="HTTP_Listener_config" path="/processFiles"/>
<set-variable value='#[now() as String { format: "ddMMuu" }]' doc:name="Set todays date as ddmmyy" doc:id="c6a91a41-65b1-46df-a720-9c13fe360b6b" variableName="today"/>
<sftp:list doc:name="List" config-ref="SFTP_Config" directoryPath="/opt/out">
<repeatable-in-memory-iterable />
<sftp:matcher filenamePattern="#['*.csv' ]"
directories="EXCLUDE" symLinks="EXCLUDE" />
</sftp:list>
<set-payload doc:name="Set Payload" value="#[output application/json --- payload map $.attributes]"/>
<foreach doc:name="For Each" >
<logger level="INFO" doc:name="Logger" message="we are here"/>
</foreach>
</flow>
The List operation returns a list of messages, and each has a payload and attributes. The content of the files is returned as the payload, in a lazy way, meaning that the file's content is read only if you try to access that element's payload.
It makes sense that if you a non-repeatable-iterator and don't access the payload of each item in the <foreach> then you should not have any memory issues, because the contents are not read.
By using in memory repeatable streaming it is possible that the entire payload is being read into memory. Try reading a file a few gigabytes in size and see what happens there.
I'm not sure what the problem is with the attributes. It should work the same in any streaming mode.
Note that if you plan on doing something with the attributes—other than printing them—then you should output to application/java instead of JSON, to avoid unneeded conversions to and from JSON. For example, in your flow the output is used as input for the <foreach>, so it would be better for it to be Java.
Example:
output application/java --- payload map $.attributes

mule org.json.JSONObject returning property value as null though the json property does have value for it

I am using the below code to convert the input payload string to json in mule. The below code sometimes working and sometimes not. its not working on standalone and working on studio. Not able to nail down the exact cause for it. but based on the loggers that i see that the property value is coming null after the expression statement. i am suspecting this could be with the jar that's getting used here. i am still digging further on it.
<logger message="input: #[payload]" level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>
<set-payload value="#[payload.'data']" mimeType="application/json" doc:name="Set Payload" encoding="ISO-8859-2"/>
<logger message="createConnection: #[payload]" level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>
<expression-component doc:name="Expression"><![CDATA[String input = payload;
payload = new org.json.JSONObject(input);
]]></expression-component>
<logger message="before json to object: #[payload.con_id] #[payload.'con_id']" level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>
<json:json-to-object-transformer returnClass="java.util.HashMap" doc:name="JSON to Object"/>
Input JSON:
data: {"name":"QA_tst2","description":"tst","con_id":10,"con_connection_id":null,
"verticalParam":[{"param_value":"abc","param_name":"Host"},{"param_value":"21","param_name":"Port"}],"CON_CATEGORY_NAME":"File"}
I don't think that notation will work for JSONObject, try using
payload.get('con_id')
as per the javadoc: https://stleary.github.io/JSON-java/org/json/JSONObject.html.
The reason this won't work with the notation you have tried, is that Mule supports that notation for Maps, and org.json.JSONObject does not implement java.util.Map. You could try using javax.json.JSONObject instead, which will support that notation.
I have figured out the current issue. if there is any logger added to fetch the properties from the payload right after the expression component then its screwing up further. if you just remove the logger that was added after the expression component then after json to object conversion, i am able to fetch the values. that solves the current issue. but i would like to understand the difference between fetching the properties #[payload.con_id] vs #[payload.'con_id']. i can start a separate conversation for the same.

Mule:Retrieving object store in an MEL in Mule 3.5

Having a requirement to test a object store whether it contains a key or not in a choice router
<objectstore:config name="storeDownload" doc:name="ObjectStore" persistent="false" partition="test"/>
<choice>
<when expression="#[app.registry.storeDownload.contains('#[flowVars.startKey]').equals('false')]">
Getting an error
1. Expression Evaluator "registry" with expression "ON" returned null but a value was required. (org.mule.api.expression.ExpressionRuntimeException)
org.mule.expression.RegistryExpressionEvaluator:101 (http://www.mulesoft.org/docs/site/current3/apidocs/org/mule/api/expression/ExpressionRuntimeException.html)
2. Failed to invoke store. Message payload is of type: byte[] (org.mule.api.MessagingException)
The main issue is that you are embedding MEL into MEL which can't work. Also the boolean-as-string comparison is dodgy.
Replace this:
#[app.registry.storeDownload.contains('#[flowVars.startKey]').equals('false')]
with that:
#[!(app.registry.storeDownload.contains(flowVars.startKey))]
My use case was a bit different to Nazar's I needed to monitor a long running process which can take up to four hours.
In the first flow I generate a key value with a time stamp in it as the payload and then use it to set the ProcessState to the static value 'Started' in an ObjectStore as shown below. After which I fire a Quartz Outbound Endpoint with a four hour delay.
<objectstore:store config-ref="MonitoredProcess" value-ref="Started" key="#[payload]" doc:name="ObjectStore"/>
<quartz:outbound-endpoint jobName="ProcessMonitor" responseTimeout="10000" doc:name="Quartz"
repeatInterval="0" repeatCount="0" startDelay="${process.monitor.event.start.delay}">
<quartz:scheduled-dispatch-job>
<quartz:job-endpoint address="vm://processMonitorQueue"/>
</quartz:scheduled-dispatch-job>
</quartz:outbound-endpoint>
And I got the same exception.
After scratching my head and lots of searches the name of the variable 'value-ref' in combination with David's answer above finally revealed my problem namely the MEL is always invoked for this ref field.
As soon as I changed the field to an expression #['Started'] that MEL could evaluate my problem went away.
<objectstore:store config-ref="MonitoredProcess" value-ref="#['Started']" key="#[payload]" doc:name="ObjectStore"/>
For completeness I've included the code that retrieves the ProcessState from the ObjectStore. Note the defaultValue-ref also needs to use MEL
<vm:inbound-endpoint exchange-pattern="one-way" path="processMonitorQueue" doc:name="VM" />
<objectstore:retrieve config-ref="MonitoredProcess" defaultValue-ref="#['DoesNotExist']" key="#[payload]" targetProperty="processState" doc:name="ObjectStore"/>

How to Extract the Flow Name and MessageProcessor Name using MEL - MULE ESB

I'm not sure, how can we extract the flow-name and message-processor Name through MEL. For example I have multiple message processor. For logging, i need to extract the flow Name and Message-processor, so that I can find out transaction has crossed this particular flow and its message processor. Is there any simple way to find out. Please guide me. Please find the screenshot below. Here i need to Extract - set payload and its flowName (flow1)
Thanks in advance.
For mule 3.8+ version onwards #[flow.name] don't work.
Use #[mule:context.serviceName] expression in logger or component to extract the name of the flow
I know this post is old but I have been trying to find a way to do this in MEL for error handling emails.
For the flow name you can use #[exception.event.flowConstruct.name]
for the failing message processor you can use #[exception.failingMessageProcessor].
Both of these work in MEL without the need to use an flowVar.
Please note however, that the failing processor does not always come back with a value but comes back with null, I'm not sure why.
You can extract the flow-name with MEL : #[flow.name]
<flow name="name" doc:name="name">
<http:inbound-endpoint address="http://localhost:8090/resources" doc:name="HTTP" />
<logger message="name of flow: #[flow.name]" level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>
<set-payload value="name" doc:name="Set Payload"/>
</flow>
or
flowConstruct.getName() in a Message Processor
Two ways to acthive this (from current flow name)
First one is -
<logger message="Current flowName: #[flow.name]" level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>
and the second one is -
<logger message="Current flowName: #[context:serviceName]" level="INFO" doc:name="Logger"/>

Mule ESB: File outputpattern doesn't translate the pattern

I'm using Mule ESB CE 3.4. I have a requirement where I'm reading the configuration information from database and using it as the file name for the file outbound endpoint. Here is an example code (the code may not work as I have only given an outline)
<file:connector name="File-Data" autoDelete="false" streaming="true" validateConnections="true" doc:name="File" />
.....
<!-- Gets the configuration from database using a transformer. The transformer populates the configuration entries in a POJO and puts that in a session. -->
<custom-transformer class="com.test.DbGetConfigsTransformer" doc:name="Get Integration Configs"/>
....<!-- some code to process data -->
<logger message="$$$: #[sessionVars['currentFeed'].getFilePattern()]" doc:name="Set JSON File Name" /> -->
<file:outbound-endpoint path="/temp" outputPattern="#[sessionVars['currentFeed'].getFilePattern()]" responseTimeout="10000" mimeType="text/plain" connector-ref="File-Data" doc:name="Save File"/>
The above code throws the following error:
1. The filename, directory name, or volume label syntax is incorrect (java.io.IOException)
java.io.WinNTFileSystem:-2 (null)
2. Unable to create a canonical file for /temp/Test_User_#[function:datestamp:YYYYMMddhhmmss.sss] (org.mule.api.MuleRuntimeException)
org.mule.util.FileUtils:354 (http://www.mulesoft.org/docs/site/current3/apidocs/org/mule/api/MuleRuntimeException.html)
3. Failed to route event via endpoint: DefaultOutboundEndpoint{endpointUri=file:///temp, connector=FileConnector
In the database table, the field name is called FilePattern and it has the value 'Test_User_#[function:datestamp:YYYYMMddhhmmss.sss]. If I hardcode the value or move this value to the mule configuration file
file.name=Test_User_#[function:datestamp:YYYYMMddhhmmss.sss]
and use the configuration property syntax (for e.g. ${file.name} in the 'outputpattern'), it works. But if I read the same from db and use it, it is not working and throwing the error. The logger displays as (which is read from the db)
$$$: Test_#[function:datestamp:YYYYMMddhhmmss.sss]
Any help is much appreciated.
If your datestamp format does not vary, you should just store the environment prefix in your db and use something like:
outputPattern="#[sessionVars['prefix']+server.dateTime.format('YYYYMMddhhmmss.sss')]"
If you need to use your current database values, you can use basic Java string methods to find the correct substrings. For example:
#[sessionVars['currentFeed'].getFilePattern().substring(0,sessionVars['currentFeed'].getFilePattern().indexOf('function')-2)+server.dateTime.format('YYYYMMddhhmmss.sss')]
If you use different datestamp formats, you can find that part as well using similar String methods. However, I still suggest you come up with an implementation that only stores the environment prefix in the db.