Reading files

The process for reading files is usually in integration projects in which we have different servers that need to communicate with others that produce a text file. It is very important in legacy applications that don't have a web service or another way to handle big data input information, so generating and reading the files is a good approach to integrate with them.

VFS properties

When we are reading a file, we can choose between different scenarios; for example, we can read a file for a directory on demand when we make a request to a service, or we can create a service that automatically polls the directory waiting until the file exists to process the information contained in it.

There is a list of properties that we can configure in the VFS proxy or file inbound endpoint for setting up the behavior of the service. Here's the list of properties.

transport.vfs.FileURI

This is a required parameter for VFS services in the URI where the files that we want to process are located; these...