How to Instantiate and Call a Commerce Interchange Pipeline Using C++

• Microsoft Site Server version 3.0

SUMMARY

The following sample code can be used to instantiate and call a Commerce Interchange Pipeline:

#include "windows.h"
#include "ole2.h"
#include "pipeline.h"
#include "commerce.h"
#include "initguid.h"
#include "mspu_guids.h"

HRESULT SampleExecutePipe( )
{

    HRESULT hr = S_OK;

    IPipeline*      pPipeline = NULL;
    IDictionary*    pRootDictionary = NULL;
    IDictionary*    pChildDictionary = NULL;
    IDispatch*      pdispChildDictionary = NULL;
    BSTR            bstrP = NULL;
    BSTR            bstrStringName = NULL;
    BSTR            bstrChildName = NULL;
    long            lErrors = 0;
    VARIANT         vChild;
    VARIANT         vString;
    VariantInit( &vChild );
    VariantInit( &vString );
    // build up the dictionary structure showing  a root dictionary
    //      containing a child dictionary
    //          containing a string to process
    // 
    // create the root
    // 
    hr = CoCreateInstance( CLSID_CDictionary, NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,
                            IID_IDictionary, (LPVOID*) &pRootDictionary);
    if (FAILED(hr)) goto Error;
    // create the child
    // 
    hr = CoCreateInstance( CLSID_CDictionary, NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,
                            IID_IDictionary, (LPVOID*) &pChildDictionary);
    if (FAILED(hr)) goto Error;
    // add the string to process to the child
    // 
    bstrStringName = SysAllocString( L"input_string" );
    // it will go here
    if (!bstrStringName) goto Error;
    bstrP = SysAllocString( L"Interesting text to process." );
    if (!bstrP) goto Error;
    vString.vt = VT_BSTR;
    vString.bstrVal = bstrP;
    hr = pChildDictionary->put_Value( bstrStringName, vString );
    // attach the child to the root -- as a IDispatch
    // 
    //hr = pChildDictionary->QueryInterface(IID_IDispatch,
    //                         (LPVOID*) &pdispChildDictionary);
    hr = pChildDictionary->QueryInterface(  IID_IUnknown,
                               (LPVOID*) &pdispChildDictionary);
    if (FAILED(hr)) goto Error;
    vChild.vt = VT_UNKNOWN | VT_BYREF;
    vChild.ppunkVal = &pdispChildDictionary;
    bstrChildName = SysAllocString( L"child_container" );
    // it will go here
    if (!bstrChildName) goto Error;
    hr = pRootDictionary->put_Value( bstrChildName, vChild );
    // create/load pipeline
    // 
    hr = CoCreateInstance( CLSID_CMtsPipeline, NULL, CLSCTX_INPROC_SERVER,
                         IID_IPipeline, (LPVOID*) &pPipeline);
    if (FAILED(hr)) goto Error;
    //ERROR
    //hr = pPipeline->LoadPipe( L"c:\filename.pcf" );
    hr = pPipeline->LoadPipe(bstrPipeFile);
    if (FAILED(hr)) goto Error;
    // process the root/child/string
    // 
    hr = pPipeline->Execute( 1, pRootDictionary, NULL, 0, &lErrors );

    if (FAILED(hr)) goto Error;
    if (lErrors > OPPERRORLEV_SUCCESS) hr = E_FAIL;
    // consume the results -- stored in the root dictionary here
    // 
  Error:

    if (bstrP) pChildDictionary->Release();
    if (pdispChildDictionary) pdispChildDictionary->Release();
    if (pChildDictionary) pChildDictionary->Release();
    if (pRootDictionary) pRootDictionary->Release();
    if (pPipeline) pPipeline->Release();
    if (bstrP) SysFreeString( bstrP );
    if (bstrStringName) SysFreeString( bstrStringName );
    if (bstrChildName) SysFreeString( bstrChildName );
    return hr;
} 

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Version : winnt:3.0
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