when there is requirement to consume REST web service in Form-Data. BizTalk need to send request to REST Service in Form-Data format. And BizTalk always send data in JSON raw format by default. If we change the content type on send port still doesn’t work. So before sending file to REST Service, we need to convert file in form-Data.
Below is sample json file and corresponding Form-Data.
Sample JSON file
{
“value1”:22.24,
“value2”:70.780,
“description”:”test”,
“count”:1000
}
Form-Data format will be:
Value1=22.24&value2=70.780&description=test&count=1000
We need to add custom pipeline in send pipeline Encode state after JSON Encoder component to convert JSON file in form-data.
Here we only provide execute function part in custom pipeline. For more details about how to create custom pipeline click here.
Code for Form-Data conversion:
public IBaseMessage Execute(IPipelineContext pContext, IBaseMessage pInMsg)
{
IBaseMessagePart bodyPart = pInMsg.BodyPart;
if (bodyPart != null)
{
Stream originalStream = bodyPart.GetOriginalDataStream();
string originalDataString;
string postDataString = “”;
try
{
//fetch original message
Stream originalMessageStream = bodyPart.GetOriginalDataStream();
byte[] bufferOriginalMessage = new byte[originalMessageStream.Length];
originalMessageStream.Read(bufferOriginalMessage, 0, Convert.ToInt32(originalMessageStream.Length));
originalDataString = System.Text.ASCIIEncoding.ASCII.GetString(bufferOriginalMessage);
//add Newtonsoft.Json dll for below function from NuGet packege
var dict = JsonConvert.DeserializeObject<Dictionary<string, string>>(originalDataString);
StringBuilder sb = new StringBuilder();
foreach (KeyValuePair<string, string> kvp in dict)
{
if (!string.IsNullOrEmpty(kvp.Key) && !string.IsNullOrEmpty(kvp.Value))
{
if (sb.Length > 0) sb.Append(‘&’);
sb.Append(System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(kvp.Key));
sb.Append(‘=’);
sb.Append(System.Web.HttpUtility.UrlEncode(kvp.Value));
}
}
postDataString = sb.ToString();
}
catch (Exception ex)
{
ex.Source = “Form-Data Error”;
throw ex;
}
if (originalStream != null)
{
byte[] outBytes = System.Text.Encoding.ASCII.GetBytes(postDataString);
MemoryStream memStream = new MemoryStream();
memStream.Write(outBytes, 0, outBytes.Length);
memStream.Position = 0;
bodyPart.Data = memStream;
pContext.ResourceTracker.AddResource(memStream);
}
}
return pInMsg;
}
Add content type at send port as below:
Content-Type:application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Hopefully this will help you.
