Well let’s go back to the topic: you are doing crazy things with your maps!
I was thinking that I had already seen it all, I was thinking that I had already seen it all, but the reality is that I continue to be blown away. While testing a project migration I end up catching this error:
Xlang/s engine event log entry: Uncaught exception (see the ‘inner exception’ below) has suspended an instance of service ‘[MY_ORCHESTRATION_NAME] (1582c665-816d-07db-3dee-1c6a750944a0)’.
The service instance will remain suspended until administratively resumed or terminated.
If resumed the instance will continue from its last persisted state and may re-throw the same unexpected exception.
InstanceId: 4e0d3e55-b481-442d-a2a4-9f4ee6e13fb7
Shape name: Create Client Msg
ShapeId: 0e4a8cba-c6a0-4a0f-ad94-574b2e8ab7ad
Exception thrown from: segment 1, progress 54Inner exception: A failure occurred while evaluating the distinguished field [MY_FIELD_NAME] against the message part data. The message part data does not contain at least one of the nodes specified by the XPath expression (listed below) that corresponds to the distinguished field. The cause for this error may be that the message part data has not been initialized or that the message part data does not conform to the message part schema. Ensure that the message part data is initialized correctly. XPath expression: /*[local-name()=’ROOT_NAME’ and namespace-uri()=’NAMESPACE’]/*[local-name()=’MY_FIELD_NAME’ and namespace-uri()=”]
Exception type: XPathUpdateException
Source: Microsoft.XLANGs.Engine
Target Site: Void SetDistinguishedField(System.String, System.Object)
The following is a stack trace that identifies the location where the exception occurred
at Microsoft.XLANGs.Core.XSDPart.SetDistinguishedField(String dottedPath, Object val)
at Siva.CRM.EAI.SIVOrchestration.Client.SIV_Client_ClientAccountSubscriber_UpdDel.segment1(StopConditions stopOn)
at Microsoft.XLANGs.Core.SegmentScheduler.RunASegment(Segment s, StopConditions stopCond, Exception& exp)
I got curious to see that this problem, as the error specify clearly, was related to a distinguished field element and it was happening inside a Construct Message that was using a map.
CAUSE
The error details points for the cause of the problem and it is for sure something related to the XPath expression: /*[local-name()=’ROOT_NAME’ and namespace-uri()=’NAMESPACE’]/*[local-name()=’MY_FIELD_NAME’ and namespace-uri()=”], however, the cause may not be exactly the same.
In my case when I opened the map, I easily realize that the field that was promoted as distinguished field was being mapped twice, i.e., two source elements where being mapped to the same destination element what was causing this element to appear twice in the final message even though the destination element is defined as Max Occurs 1 and Min Occurs 0.
Of course you may know that distinguished fields are essentially XPath aliases, which simply point to the appropriate XML data field. They don’t have a size limitation but they only can appear once. You cannot promote a repeating element.
And you also should know that the map doesn’t validate the input or the output messages in runtime!
And the curious thing was that this particular distinguished field it was not being used inside the orchestration!
SOLUTION
The solution it easy for this case.
First:
- Don’t promote elements that you are not really using or need to do some logic inside your orchestrations… If you don’t need them, don’t promote them. Distinguished fields cost less than Property Fields but they still have a cost for performance!
Second:
- Fix the ma rule associated with this element. In my case I decide to remove the “nipc” rule and leave only the “accountId” direct link to the “EntityGuid”
