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Adding an Attachment for Simulation

You can add an attachment to a variable to simulate the attachment that a running process would normally receive and send. You can also add properties to the attachment and then manipulate properties with the

getAttachmentProperty

function. For details, see Custom Functions for Manipulating Attachments.

For a discussion of simulation, see Simulating Execution of a BPEL Process.

To add attachments to a variable for simulation:

From the Process Editor canvas, select a receive, invoke, onMessage, or onEvent activity.

In the Properties view, under Simulation, do one of the following:

For a receive, onMessage, onEvent, click the

Dialog (...) Button

at the end of the Input Attachments
row

For an Invoke, click the Dialog (...) Button at the end of the Output Attachments
or Fault Attachments
row

In the Input/Output/Fault Attachments
dialog, select Add
.

In the Attachment
dialog, select either File System
or Project
for an attachment location, and browse to select an attachment.

Notice that known content properties are identified. For example, if you attach a GIF image, the Content Type is image/gif
.

Note that the X-Size
property that is added to indicate the size of the attachment in bytes.

If desired, edit the known properties, or add a new property as follows:

Select Add
to open the Attachment Properties
dialog.

Type in a Property Name
and Value
. Note that the property must be a known property of the attachment.

Click OK
.

Click OK
to close the Attachments
dialog.

To add another attachment, select Add
on the Input/Output/Fault
dialog, and continue adding an attachment.

After adding attachments, start simulation, as described in Starting and Ending Simulation of a BPEL Process.

During simulation, open the process variables that have attachments. As the process receives, sends, or copies attachments, you can view the results in the Process Variables view.

Attachment properties must conform to known properties. For details, see abx:getAttachmentProperty in Custom Functions for Manipulating Attachments.

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