Data Type Mapping for Receive Handlers in TIBCO Rendezvous

Microsoft BizTalk Adapter for TIBCO Rendezvous maps TIBCO RV types to XML Schema types as specified in the following table.

TIBCO RV to XML Data Type Mapping

TIBCO RV Type	XML Schema Type	Comments
TIBRVMSG_MSG	tibrv:message	Complete XML document constructed from entire message.
TIBRVMSG_XML	tibrv:rawxml	XML Document constructed from the array of bytes (not interpreted by the adapter).
TIBRVMSG_DATETIME	xsd:dateTime	The adapter uses the System.Xml.XmlConvert class to convert between XML Schema dateTime and System.DateTime instances.
TIBRVMSG_OPAQUE	xsd:base64Binary
TIBRVMSG_STRING	xsd:string
TIBRVMSG_BOOL	xsd:boolean
TIBRVMSG_I8	xsd:byte
TIBRVMSG_I16	xsd:short
TIBRVMSG_I32	xsd:int
TIBRVMSG_I64	xsd:long
TIBRVMSG_U8	xsd:unsignedByte
TIBRVMSG_U16	xsd:unsignedShort
TIBRVMSG_U32	xsd:unsignedInt
TIBRVMSG_U64	xsd:unsignedLong
TIBRVMSG_F32	xsd:float
TIBRVMSG_F64	xsd:double
TIBRVMSG_IPADDR32	tibrv:IPaddress	System.Net.IPAddress.ToString( ) is used to generate the output. Content is in network byte order. ToString() takes care of that.
TIBRVMSG_IPPORT16	tibrv:IPport	Content is in network byte order
TIBRVMSG_I8ARRAY	tibrv:arrayOfByte	'tibrv' schema namespace is provided with the adapter.
TIBRVMSG_I16ARRAY	tibrv:arrayOfShort
TIBRVMSG_I32ARRAY	tibrv:arrayOfInt
TIBRVMSG_I64ARRAY	tibrv:arrayOfLong
TIBRVMSG_U8ARRAY	tibrv:arrayOfUnsignedByte
TIBRVMSG_U16ARRAY	tibrv:arrayOfUnsignedShort
TIBRVMSG_U32ARRAY	tibrv:arrayOfUnsignedInt
TIBRVMSG_U64ARRAY	tibrv:arrayOfUnsignedLong
TIBRVMSG_F32ARRAY	tibrv:arrayOfFloat
TIBRVMSG_F64ARRAY	tibrv:arrayOfDouble

TIBCO Rendezvous arrays differ from a sequence of fields with the same name. For example, in a TIBCO Rendezvous message, it is valid to have an array with 70,000 elements, but it is not valid to have 70,000 fields.

The schema for the array types in the previous table looks like this:

…  
<xsd:complexType name='arrayOfShort'>  
<xsd:sequence>  
<xsd:element name="item" type="xsd:short"/>  
</xsd:sequence>  
</xsd:complexType>  
  

An array element in a message looks like this:

<someElement xsi:type='tibrv:arrayOfShort'>  
<item>100</item>  
<item>200</item>  
<item>300</item>  
<item>400</item>  
<item>500</item>  
</someElement>  
  

The schema for the IPaddress looks like this:

<xsd:simpleType name='IPaddress'>  
  
 <xsd:restriction base="xs:string">  
   <xsd:minLength value="7" />  
   <xsd:maxLength value="15" />  
  
 </xsd:restriction>  
       </xsd:simpleType>   
</xsd:simpleType>  
  

The schema for the IPport looks like this:

<xsd:simpleType name='IPport'>  
  
<xsd:restriction base='xsd:ushort'>  
</xsd:simpleType>  

See Also

Message Mapping in TIBCO Rendezvous
Creating TIBCO Rendezvous Receive Handlers