Thursday, March 24, 2011

BizTalk Tutorial Part 7: Using Two-Way HTTP Receive Port to receive request and send response

Charan: I have a problem. One of our client wants to send our application an XML message and  want to receive the acknowledgment for the same. Moreover client want to use HTTP protocol for this communication and our application don't support HTTP . Is there a simple way to do this through BizTalk.
Rohit: hmmm interesting problem. Yes, in BizTalk all you have to do is to create Request-Response Receive Port using HTTP adapter. You can use BizTalk to communicate with your backend application.
Let me show you, through a demo application, how you can achieve this on 64-bit machine win Windows Server 2008.
1. Configure BTSHTTPReceive.dll in IIS 7.0
In Internet Information Services Manager console click on Handler Mappings
Then click on Add Script Map... In Add Script Map dialog box specify the required information as shown below:-
Note: If you are having 32-bit OS then the path in Executable: should be '<BizTalkInstallationDirectory> \HttpReceive\BTSHTTPReceive.dll '
Click OK to close the “Add Script Map” window, a warning windows will then appears, Click Yes Button.

2. Create application pool in IIS 7.0
In IIS Manager Console create application pool using .Net Framework Version 4.0 and configure it with identity having appropriate access to BizTalk databases.
In Advanced Setting dialog box for application pool set 'Enable 32-bit Applications' to false.

3. Create Virtual Directory in IIS 7.0
In Add Application dialog box specify the following application:
Alias: HTTPDemoApp
Application pool: Name of Application Pool created in step 2.
Physical Path: <BizTalkInstallationDirectory>\HttpReceive64
Note: <BizTalkInstallationDirectory>\HttpReceive in case of 32-bit.

4. Create BizTalk Application
Open the BizTalk Server Administration Console and create a new BizTalk application with name 'HTTPAdapterDemo'
5. Create Request Response Receive Port
Create a request response receive port with name RP_ReceiceMessage as shown below:

Create RP_ReceiceMessage_HTTP receive location as shown below. Use HTTP adapter .
Configure HTTP adapter as shown below:

6. Create Dummy orchestration to act as back-end application
Create new BizTalk project with name 'BizTalk.HTTPAdapterDemoApp'.
Add Schema 'Message_XML.xsd' to project as shown below:
Add a dummy orchestration that will set the status filed of message to Approved if Quantity is less than 500 and Denied otherwise.
Follow these steps to create the dummy orchestration:

6.1: Add orchestration to the project



6.2: Create two messages in orchestration and sepcify Message_XML as Message Type as shown below: 


6.3: Create a request-response port for receiving message and sending response by following the steps shown below:






6.4 Drop a receive shape and configure it as shown below:


6.5: Drop a decide shape and configure the IF portion as shown below:


6.6: Drop a Message Assignment in IF block and configure the construct shape enclosing the message assignment shape as shown below:


6.7: Configure the message assignment shape as shown below:


6.8: Drop a Message Assignment in ELSE block and configure the construct shape enclosing the message assignment as done in step 6.6 and configure the message assignment shape as shown below:

6.9: Drop a Send shape after decide shape and configure it as shown below:



Deploy this solution and configure the orchestration and attach the logical port to 'RP_ReceiveMessage' created in step 5. Start the HTTPAdapterDemo application created in Step 4.
7. Test the functionality
Create C# console application and use the following code
        static void Main(string[] args)
        {
            WebRequest request = null;
            WebResponse response = null;
            if (args.Length < 1)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("Please specify the name of XML file as argument");
                return;
            }
            try
            {         
                //The path of Virtual Directory created in Step 3
                string uri = "http://localhost/HTTPDemoApp/BTSHTTPReceive.dll";

                request = WebRequest.Create(uri);
                request.Method = "POST";
                request.ContentType = "text/xml";
               
               
                StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(request.GetRequestStream());

                //args[0] should contain the path of XML file complying with schema Message_XML.xsd
                StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(args[0]);
                writer.WriteLine(reader.ReadToEnd());
               
                reader.Close();

                writer.Close();

                response = request.GetResponse();
                               
                Console.WriteLine(ReturnString(response.GetResponseStream()));
            }
            catch (WebException webException)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(webException.Message);

            }
            catch (Exception e)
            {
                Console.WriteLine(e.Message);
            }
            finally
            {
                if (request != null) request.GetRequestStream().Close();
                if (response != null) response.GetResponseStream().Close();
            }
        }
        static string ReturnString(Stream stm)
        {
            byte[] buffer = new byte[1024];
            StringBuilder strBldr = new StringBuilder();
            int count;
            while ((count=stm.Read(buffer, 0, 1024)) != 0)
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < count; i++)
                    strBldr.Append(Convert.ToChar(buffer[i]));
            }
            return strBldr.ToString();
        }

Cheers,
Rohit Sharma

21 comments:

Manjunath said...

Hi Rohit,

I have created the project as explained above but when i try debugging the C# Console application It is throwing error::(EVENT VIEWER)

The BizTalk HTTP receive adapter failed to initialize itself. Possible reasons:
1) Receive location URL is not created/configured correctly.
2) Receive location is not enabled.
3) HTTP receive adapter is not running under a user that has access to management and message databases.
4) Isolated host instance is not created for HTTP Receive adapter.

Please help !!

Rohit C.M. Sharma said...

The error itself is giving you enough clues have you investigated these in your case.

suresh said...

Good Post Rohit

suresh said...

Rohit -I have a HTTP send port that has been configured as http:\\MYserverName\XMLReceive\BTSHttpReceive.dll. Just want to know how the Invoices that we send to Trading Patner configured in Rosettnet reaches the corresponding TP. How is the link between IIS and Rosetta happening.

Rohit C.M. Sharma said...
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Rohit C.M. Sharma said...

Suresh, in case of RosettaNet accelerator you use the RNIFReceive.aspx and RNIFSend.aspx to send receive the messages. The RNIFReceive.aspx do have code logic to submit the file to receive location. I think in SDK sample in RosettaNet you can get the code of these ASPX pages.

Rohit C.M. Sharma said...

Get more information here:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff720223.aspx

Unknown said...

Good Post Rohit, Thanks for sharing

Ajay said...

Hi Rohit, I am also getting same error as suresh was getting:

The BizTalk HTTP receive adapter failed to initialize itself. Possible reasons:
1) Receive location URL is not created/configured correctly.
2) Receive location is not enabled.
3) HTTP receive adapter is not running under a user that has access to management and message databases.
4) Isolated host instance is not created for HTTP Receive adapter.

checked all the configuration and they are correct,,
can you let me know how to check on point 3...and what should be apppol identity i give

Rohit C.M. Sharma said...

Ajay the easiest solution is to add the user account you have used for configuring the application pool to BizTalk Server Administrators group.

Unknown said...

Hi Rohit , I am getting the below error.

Could you please help me in this.

Error 1 The type or namespace name 'Stream' could not be found (are you missing a using directive or an assembly reference?)


Rohit C.M. Sharma said...

Arijit, I guess you might be getting while creating the test utility(Step 7 above). If yes then try to add the namespace System.IO in the beginning of the code in using statement.

Unknown said...

Hello Rohit,

Thanks for your help.

I am facing some issues with the C# code. Could you please help me in this.


Warning:

Warning 1 Referenced assembly 'C:\windows\assembly\GAC_64\Microsoft.BizTalk.Security.SSPI\3.0.1.0__31bf3856ad364e35\Microsoft.BizTalk.Security.SSPI.dll' targets a different processor than the application. ConsoleApplication_HTTP

Output:

'ConsoleApplication_HTTP.vshost.exe' (CLR v4.0.30319: ConsoleApplication_HTTP.vshost.exe): Loaded 'C:\Users\IBM_ADMIN\Documents\Visual Studio 2013\Projects\ConsoleApplication_HTTP\ConsoleApplication_HTTP\bin\Debug\ConsoleApplication_HTTP.exe'. Symbols loaded.
The program '[8360] ConsoleApplication_HTTP.vshost.exe' has exited with code 0 (0x0).
The thread 0x25b8 has exited with code 259 (0x103).
The thread 0x2f78 has exited with code 259 (0x103).
The program '[9424] ConsoleApplication_HTTP.vshost.exe' has exited with code 0 (0x0).


Thanks in advance
Arijit

Prajakta said...

Hello,

I followed all the above steps but while running console application, I am getting an error as "The remote server returned an error: (405) Method Not Allowed."

Any thoughts?

Unknown said...

Hello Rohit,

After executing the steps above I didn't get any output from C# application. Rather I got the below error

"The remote server returned an error: (503) Server Unavailable."

Could you please help me in this.

Thanks in advance
Tapan

Unknown said...

Hi Prajakta,
I was getting the same error, because first I was using BTSHTTPReceive.dll 32bit(not x64) and second issue was while configuring the mapper handler, I gave name as -BTSHTTPReceiveX86.
I believe issue could be with the naming convention only.
Also check below article - http://www.biztalkbill.com/Home/tabid/40/EntryId/66/Configuring-BTSHTTPReceive-dll-to-work-on-IIS-7.aspx

Unknown said...

Hi Rohit, Great article, thanks for sharing :)

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