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Author's profile photo Karsten Möhwald

HowTo – Send Test Messages to the Adapter Engine (to an Integrated Configuration)



The possibility to send test messages to the Integration Engine is widely known.

If you try to test at ‘Component Monitoring -> Adapter Engine’ you will get an error. (screenshot )


So how can we send test messages also directly to the Adapter Engine Messaging System?

How can we send a message to “any arbitrary Integrated Configuration” as if this ICO would be triggered by it’s configured sender channel?


There are a lot of threads on SCN claiming that this is not possible for the AE. Well, it is.

Here is how you do it:

First you have to create yourself 2 objects in Integration Directory (you need to do that just once)


  • You need a SOAP sender channel that is configured to use the XI protocol

I recommend you create yourself a particular channel that is intended just for sending test messages. It doesn’t matter which component the channel belongs to.

  • You also need an Integrated Configuration or Sender Agreement that references the channel

You can choose any (dummy) Interface and Namespace. (If you use an Integrated Configuration then you must, of course, also set Receiver, Receiver Interface and Receiver Channel. You can also use dummies here.)

That’s it, we are ready to send test messages


  • go to: Runtime Workbench -> Component Monitoring -> Adapter Engine -> Test Message

(if you are working on 7.30/7.31 single stack then you can still reach Runtime Workbench at

http://<host>:<port>/rwb/index.jsp)

  • use the url

http://<host>:<port>/XISOAPAdapter/MessageServlet?channel=<party>:<service>:<channel>

    • for <party>, <service> and <channel> put the values of your SOAP “dummy channel” (not the sender channel of the ICO you actually want to test)
    • make sure you set both colons in <party>:<service>:<channel>, it is mandatory even if you don’t have a party
  • set the payload and header values for the interface you want to test, put username and password
  • press “Send Message” 🙂




So far,

Karsten Möhwald

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      Author's profile photo Michal Krawczyk
      Michal Krawczyk

      Hi Karsten,

      hehe tricky but this is not sending messages to the AE/AAE/AEX engines

      (so I believe you should change the blog's subject),

      let me explain:

      the idea of sending a message to the AE/AAE/AEX is that:

      a) you don't give the channel name

      b) you can use it with any adapter (no additional config required)

      what you did is you've created a normal SOAP-> something flow

      which can always be invoked from any test page,

      currently there's no way to send test messages to AE/AAE/AEX like in the past we could do to IE

      Regards,

      Michal Krawczyk

      Author's profile photo Karsten Möhwald
      Karsten Möhwald
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Michal,

      in the url you give the channel name of the dummy channel, but not the sender channel of the ICO you actually want to test.  😉

      So with this procedure you will test any ICO as if it would be triggered by it's true sender channel.

      Of course this is not a full end-to-end test, since the functionality of the sender channel will not be tested with this approach. But this is the same for IE.

      Regards,

      Karsten

      Author's profile photo Michal Krawczyk
      Michal Krawczyk

      ah 🙂

      if this is working like that then you're right ! 🙂

      need to check it myself too,

      thanks for the update, excellent news Karsten!

      Regards,

      Michal Krawczyk

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Karsten,

      great blog - thanks for sharing.

      Cheers,

      Daniel

      Author's profile photo Hareesh Gampa
      Hareesh Gampa

      Hi Karsten - Thanks for the blog.. I did try but getting an error why sending the message.

      "Error While Sending Message: 500 Internal Server Error"

      I used a dummy channel ( some other channel which belongs to the same business system)

      and the dummy channel is configured with XI 3.0 protocol.

      Anything else to check?

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Karsten, This tweak in to trigger messages for ICO is much awaited. Thanks for sharing.

      I tested this scenario on PI 7.1 to trigger message to ICO. My ID has admin access on ABAP/Java stack. But still I receive "500:Internal Server Error".

      Are we missing some config.

      Regards,

      Pranav

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      Former Member

      Hi Karsten,

      Quite Useful Info. Thank you for same.

      But, As with others, i am also facing,

      Error While Sending Message: 500 Internal Server Error

      If this AAE testing works, it helps a lot in End-to-End testing activities.

      santosh.

      Author's profile photo Karsten Möhwald
      Karsten Möhwald
      Blog Post Author

      Hi Santosh, Pranav and Hareesh,

      • please check if you have set the header values of the interface to be tested correctly
      • also make sure that you put both colons in "<party>:<service>:<channel>", it is mandatory, even if you don't have a party.

      Best Regards,

      Karsten

      Author's profile photo Hareesh Gampa
      Hareesh Gampa

      It worked 🙂

      I was sending some invalid payload and i just noticed the error in the dummy channel.

      I just put some valid xml message and it went through..

      Thank you very much Karsten

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      It did worked 🙂 .

      Thank you Karsten.u rock 😎 .

      I was doing mistake by providing main ICO service & channel in link.

      http://<host>:<port>/XISOAPAdapter/MessageServlet?channel=<party>:<service>:<channel>

      Once i gave Dummy service & channel. It worked.

      -santosh.

      Author's profile photo Muni M
      Muni M

      Hi,


      Error While Sending Message: 500 Internal Server Error

      another reason would be if we send message without creating dummy ICO.

      Regards,

      Muni

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Karsten,

      Nice one.

      Best Regards,

      Sudharshan N A

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      Former Member

      Karsten,

      Hats Off 🙂

      excellent one....

      We were looking for this for our AEX version.

      Will help a lot till we get fix from SAP.

      Best Regards

      Divyesh

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      Former Member

      Hi Karsten,

      thanks for sharing this useful trick.

      Regards

      Dingjun

      Author's profile photo Amit Srivastava
      Amit Srivastava

      Hello Karsten,

      Tricky solution and certainly useful.

      Thanks

      Amit Srivastava

      Author's profile photo Michal Krawczyk
      Michal Krawczyk

      Hi Karsten,

      I did some debugging yesterday to prepare the SOAP UI version: 

      Michal's PO tips: How to send messages directly to AEX (ICO) - adapter independent - SOAPUI version

      so now we can use your idea with any kind of testing tool 🙂

      BTW

      you had an amazing idea to test it like that !

      Regards,

      Michal Krawczyk

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Karsten,

      Good Day!

      For PI consultants, this blog is very useful and thanks for sharing. I liked it very much!

      Regards,

      Hari Suseelan

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Nice exploring Karsten and your idea is allowing for more tweaks as Michal did one..

      Best Regards,

      Praveen Gujjeti

      Author's profile photo Mikael Mauri Frandsen
      Mikael Mauri Frandsen

      Nice one, Karsten, thanks!

      regards

      Mauri

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Karsten,

      Thx for the workaround. I will try it out, but from the reactions i see here it will surely work.

      However i would also like to point out that it is a workaround, and i find a proper test tool missing from the new PI java stack only.

      It's a really a step back for developers.

      Maybe someone (Michal?) can shed some light on how and when SAP will make up for this omission?

      Regards

      Robert

      Author's profile photo Holger Himmelmann
      Holger Himmelmann

      Hi Robert,

      based on my latest information SAP plans to offer the test tool from RWB in a similar way also for AEX and PIMON. But I haven't got an official information about the concrete availability date, but my hope is that this feature will be included in one of the upcoming SPS in 2014.

      Regards, Holger

      Author's profile photo Iñaki Vila
      Iñaki Vila

      Hi Holger,

      A wonderful new, thank you for sharing the "spoiler" 🙂

      Regards.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Karsten,

      I have a doubt. You said in <party>:<service>:<channel> we need to mention the dummy receiver channel details. However, in the screenshot you have attached i saw you have put the details of the sender channel. And in the header information 'Sender Component' you have mentioned some component which is different from the one you have used for the sender channel..

      When i tried to use the receiver channel details it threw me 500:internal error.

      when i used the sender channel details in the url it worked.. the message was sent 🙂

      Author's profile photo Karsten Möhwald
      Karsten Möhwald
      Blog Post Author

      Gargi Bhattacharya wrote:

      You said in <party>:<service>:<channel> we need to mention the dummy receiver channel details.

      I don't know where you read that, i did not write it like that.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Gargi,

      Actually, Karsten meant to use the DUMMY CC (with sender soap channel) in endpoint in RWB test message.

      Hope it is clear now.

      Divyesh

      Author's profile photo RAVI REDDY
      RAVI REDDY

      nice explanation................ 🙂

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Karsten and Divyesh..

      understood ur point ... 🙂

      thanks!! 🙂

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Some thing new to learn...

      Great!!!

      Author's profile photo Zameer Hamza Farook
      Zameer Hamza Farook

      I always wanted to use this and now there is a way, thanks for sharing this!

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Nice one. Looking for this from long time.

      Author's profile photo Anand Shankar
      Anand Shankar

      Its really helpful. But I am confised with one point. when we have RWB Test message window for putting in test message then why its mandatory to use SOAP adapter channel. why cant we use it with file adapter channel?

      Is it because we have to XI3.0 protocol on JAVA stack engine?

      Thanks

      Anand

      Author's profile photo Stefan Bosshard
      Stefan Bosshard

      Just perfect - thanks a lot for sharing this blog!

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Excellent idea...Thank you 🙂

      Regards,

      A.Neelima.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Excellent idea!!!, thanks for sharing.

      Cheers,
      Rakesh

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Thank you. I will test this trick.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Es funktioniert wirklich!

      Interessant! Wie bist Du darauf gekommen, Karsten?

      Author's profile photo Alexander Bundschuh
      Alexander Bundschuh

      Hi all,

      fyi, we plan to ship a proper send test message capability for ICOs with 7.31 SP12

      Regards

      Alex

      Author's profile photo Muni M
      Muni M

      Hi Alex,

      Any update on "Test configuration" option in Integration Directory. this is also missing in single stack.

      receiver/interface determination conditions testing "Test configuration" is really helpful.

      Regards,

      Muni.

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Very good trick!

      Author's profile photo Wenning Gao
      Wenning Gao

      Hi,

      I want to do some testing, without involve partner system, and search sdn for the easy way of testing.

      Glad to see this and also know SAP will provide a better testing tool.

      I am uisng PO7.31 with ehp 1 now. Yes, I would like SAP to bring back the testing configuration function, it actually useful.

      as to the testing tool, after going over the blog and commenta, I decide still use my old trick, using http adapter with WFtech, I find it is still easiest way to run a test through PI run time. all you need to do is  create a http_aae sender(need be under same business component or service), replace the sender channel in integration configure, set up the url correctly in wfetch. less than a couple minutes work.

      if any interesting, I can write a blog to introduce it.

      Thanks.--Wenning

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member



      Hi All,


      We are also facing the same issue while testing ICO interface as above mentioned. I have modified the URL like this http://xxxxxxxx/XISOAPAdapter/MessageServlet?channel=:Dummy:SOAP_TEST_Channel.


      Still I am facing this issue "Error While Sending Message: 500 Internal Server Error"


      Please do needful by providing resolution paths.



      Thanks In Advance,

      Anusha Penneru





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      Former Member
      Author's profile photo Satanik Mukherjee
      Satanik Mukherjee

      Hi All,

      We have a scenario where receiver is determined using a XHEADER name which is coming from another PI box .

      How can  I trigger a message from AE for such a scenario?

      Thanks in advance,

      Satanik

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi,

      I am seeing "Error While Sending Message: 500 Internal Server Error " when i try to push the data from adapter engine RWB

      I have done all the steps mentioned in the blog and also i have done following debugging steps:

      1. I have verified that the URL is correct

      2. Communication channel is started and working fine

      3. Header details are correct as I have copied them directly from ICO in Integration directory

      4. The message content is correct as i have copied a successful payload from production

      5. I have checked with both dummy Channel+dummy ICO as well as soap sender with sender agreement. Both return the same internal server error 500

      6. I have also tried to send the message to a Proxy sender ICO interface (Dev). Still same error.

      7. Tried with J2EE_Admin user to check if it is an authorization issue. But again, I received the same error.

      I am testing on SAP PI 7.30. Can you please suggest where I am going wrong??

      Thanks,

      Sampath

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Adding to my comment,

      When I paste the URL in the browser, it shows "Message Servlet Status OK". But, when I modify part of the URL beyond /MessageServlet , it doesn't have any effect at all. Even if I make the URL as ..../MessageServlet?channel=:Easterbunny, the web page still displays "Message Servlet Status OK"

      I feel the request is not going beyond message servlet level. Do you know what could be the issue?

      Thanks

      Sampath

      Author's profile photo Satanik Mukherjee
      Satanik Mukherjee

      Hello Sampath,

      Hope you are using XI protocol for the dummy SOAP channel. Please use the  same channel detail in the url and even then if you get 500 internal server error then check the channel montoring log for the channel.

      You will get the exact reason for that error.

      Thanks,

      Satanik

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi Satanik,

      Yes, I am using XI protocol. Surprisingly I'm not getting anything in audit logs in my channel monitoring. I have also checked using XPI inspector, but there is no log. I am not sure where I'm going wrong here.

      Regards,

      Sampath

      Author's profile photo Satanik Mukherjee
      Satanik Mukherjee

      Hi Sampath,

      Hope you have checked the logs of the dummy channel.

      Please check if you are providing the sender details correctly while triggering the message.

      Also, can you confirm if the ICO has any xheader condition for determining receivers.  

      Thanks,

      Satanik

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Hi All,

      I tried using the above to send the data to PI, I have Proxy to SOAP and since proxy code is not in ECC yet, i am tying to send the data to PI and see if this goes to 3rd party via SOAP Rcvr.

      After putting all the config ( first created IC then via sender agreement), i am getting Error While Sending Message: 500 Internal Server Error. In Adpater monitoring, i see error


      senderChannel 'f493e307a14739cc9eb399869fc30989': Catching exception calling messaging system

      Please advice if anything else need to be done. I have checked the URL and tried with payload correctly

      Author's profile photo Mohd Mukheed
      Mohd Mukheed

      Hi All,

      I can be able to send test messages for ICO interfaces by using testing tab of runtime and send testmessage option.

      Regards

      Mukheed

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Thank you !

      Author's profile photo Former Member
      Former Member

      Since SCN migration to new platform I lost my bookmarks, so glad I could finally get back to this post. Does anyone know if there is a newer more standard way to test the ICO which SAP might have re-introduced?

      Author's profile photo Ricardo Viana
      Ricardo Viana

      Hi Aaron,

      I just created a new one.

      https://blogs.sap.com/2017/10/27/how-to-test-message-pi-aex-without-backend/

      Enjoy 😀 

      Author's profile photo Pavel Astashonok
      Pavel Astashonok

      what if I created and successfully sent the message but it doesn't appear in the message monitor? what to do? what to check?