Extracting the file name from a message

by | Jan 26, 2009 | BizTalk Community Blogs via Syndication

A friend from Chile asked about how to extract a filename from a message, after going back and forth, I sent him this code that I use in my EDI logger

        private static string extractFileName(IBaseMessage inmsg)
        {
            string adapterType = (string)inmsg.Context.Read("InboundTransportType", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003/system-properties");
            string ReceivedFileName = "";
            //make sure it is an adapter that we can get a file name from
            if (adapterType == "FILE" || adapterType == "FTP")
            {
                if (adapterType == "FILE")
                {
                    ReceivedFileName = (string)inmsg.Context.Read("ReceivedFileName", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003/file-properties");
                }
                else if (adapterType == "FTP")
                {
                    ReceivedFileName = (string)inmsg.Context.Read("ReceivedFileName", "http://schemas.microsoft.com/BizTalk/2003/ftp-properties");
                }
            }
            return Path.GetFileName(ReceivedFileName);
        }

Since he said he could not find anything out there on how to do it, I figured I would post it for everyone’s edification.