Hi all,
I’m looking for a way to save flow service’s input into a string within the very same service.
I thought about finding contextId and using monitoring tools (getPipeline), but this requires turning on monitoring for those services. Quite a big disadvantage…
Any other solutions?
PS.
I’ve searched the forum and it seems like the contextId solution is the only way out 
savePipelineToFile.
This saves the pipeline to a file on the IS machine. I want to save it to a string inside a map, invoke or whatever (inside my flow service) and then be able to use it in further service steps (eq. save it to my own db).
Why?
I’m building a monitoring tool of my own 
I guess I could go down the path of why you’d want to reinvent something but…
You could create a Java service that examines the pipeline and converts it to a string format of some sort. pipeline.toString() might be sufficient for your needs.
The solution was realy simple… all you need is to write a java service with no input and invoke the WmPublic.pub.xml:documentToXMLString service with pipeline as document parameter…