Opening an existing ESQL file

You can add to and modify ESQL code that you have created in an ESQL file in a message flow project.

Before you start

To complete this task, you must have completed the following task:

To open an existing ESQL file:

  1. Switch to the Broker Application Development perspective.
  2. In the Navigator view, double-click the ESQL file that you want to open. The file is opened in the editor view.
  3. Work with the contents of file to make your changes. The file can contain modules relating to specific nodes in a message flow, PATH statements, and declarations at broker schema level such as reusable constants and procedures. Scroll through the file to find the specific content that you want to work with.
  4. You can select the content that you want to work with by selecting its name in the Outline view. The code for the selected resource is highlighted.

You can also open an ESQL file when you have a message flow open in the editor view by selecting an appropriate node (of type Compute, Database, or Filter), right-clicking, and selecting Open ESQL. In this case, the ESQL file that contains this module is opened, and the module for the selected node is highlighted in the editor view.

Related concepts
Message flows overview
Message mappings overview
Broker schemas
ESQL modules
Related tasks
Developing message flows
Related reference
Built-in nodes
ESQL reference