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There are two modes of operation: "Quick Setup" and "Advanced Mode", for both import and export. Quick Setup exposes only the required/minimum options to successfully complete a Sqoop import/export from/to HDFS and an RDBMS. Advanced Mode allows the user to configure all possible settings for the Sqoop import/export in addition to supplying an existing working command line configuration.

Screenshots (as released in PDI 4.4.0-GA and Pentaho Suite 4.8)

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Quick Setup

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Advanced Options (List)

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Advanced Options (Command Line)

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Developer Notes

• Base implementations for a "blocking" job entry were created to support multiple job entries that require launching processes and polling for their completion.
• The notion of a "job config" was introduced as the model behind a job that can be serialized to disk/repository easily without the developer needed to implement their own serialization mechanism. (Note: this is something that should be intrinsic to Kettle but is currently not.)