Message content window

View message payload content, metadata, and supported content formats.

On the Message Timeline, click the Document icon to open the message content window.

The window displays the payload of original, mapped, updated, and confirmation BOD messages. The Content tab initially displays up to 100 characters of the payload. Click Show more to display the complete content in the message content window. Click DOWNLOAD to download the content.

These buttons are available at the top of the window:

  • Format
  • Download
  • Close

This table describes the buttons in the message content window:

Name Description
Format

Apply formatting to the original content to improve readability. Click the button again to restore the original content. When formatting is applied, the button is highlighted in blue.

Notes:

  • The original content is displayed by default.
  • The original content can appear formatted.
  • The button is hidden when formatting is not applicable.
Download

Download the original content to view it locally. This is useful when the content is available but cannot be displayed, for example because of its size or binary format.

Notes:

  • The original content is downloaded even if a user formatted the payload.
  • The button is hidden when the document was not retrieved, is empty, or was purged.
Close Close the message content window.

This information is available at the bottom of the window:

  • Document name
  • File type*
  • Message size**
  • Instance count

*The file type displayed in the message content window matches the current format type in Data Catalog, not the format that was used when the data was published. If you update the data format in the AnySQL Connection Point settings in ION and ION generates metadata, the new file type is displayed for previously published data.

**Only one size value is available for the payload content. The label indicates whether the displayed value represents the compressed size or the original size.

The compressed size that is displayed can differ from the compressed size when the message was delivered to or delivered by ION because different compression techniques can produce different compression ratios.

OneView applies size limits when viewing message content, counting instances, and downloading messages.

When the decompressed message size is available:

  • You can view message content for messages up to 1 MB.
  • Instance counts are available for messages up to 5 MB.
  • A warning is displayed for messages exceeding 5 MB in size, and the message content can still be downloaded using the Download button.

When the decompressed message size is not available, OneView applies limits based on the compressed message size:

  • You can view message content for messages up to 0.1 MB compressed.
  • Instance counts are available for messages up to 0.5 MB compressed.
  • A warning is displayed for messages exceeding 0.5 MB compressed in size, and the message content can still be downloaded using the Download button.

This table shows the formats supported in OneView:

Message format OneView can display content Details
XML (BODs) Yes The message content is validated by OneView and indicates whether the content is valid XML.
JSON (Conventional) Yes The message content is validated by OneView and indicates whether the content is valid JSON.
JSON (Newline-delimited) – NDJSON Yes The message content is validated by OneView and indicates whether the content is valid NDJSON.
DSV (CSV, TSV, PSV, and other delimited formats) Yes

DSV formats are displayed as plain text without highlighting or formatting.

No content validation is performed.
ANY No

File formats that use the Data Catalog Any data format.

No content validation is performed.

Infor ION Data Catalog recommends that you use one of these syntax patterns:

  • $.*['propertyName'] for conventional JSON objects
  • $['propertyName'] for newline-delimited JSON