Description
LDIF is short for LDAP Data Interchange Format. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDIF .
The LDIF Input step reads information from such files.
Files Tab
The files tab is where you define the location of the files from which you want to read. The table below contains options associated with the Files tab:
Option | Description |
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Step Name | Name of the step; the name has to be unique in a single transformation. |
Files origin |
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File or directory | Specifies the location and/or name of the input text file. |
Regular expression | Specifies the regular expression you want to use to select the files in the directory specified in the previous option. |
Selected Files | Contains a list of selected files (or wildcard selections) and a property specifying if file is required or not. If a file is required and it is not found, an error is generated;otherwise, the file name is skipped. |
Show filenames(s)... | Displays a list of all files that will be loaded based on the current selected file definitions |
Content Tab
Option | Description |
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Include filename in output? | Allows you to specify a field name to include the file name (String) in the output of this step. |
Rownum in output | Allows you to specify a field name to include the row number (Integer) in the output of this step. |
Include content type? | Allows you to specify a field name to include the content type (String) in the output of this step. |
Limit | Limits the number of rows to this number (zero (0) means all rows). |
Multi valued field separator | For multi-valued content fields, you can specify a separator here. (default is a comma) |
Result filenames |
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Fields
Option | Description |
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Name | The name of the output field |
Attribute | The attribute to read |
Type | The data type to convert to |
Format | The format or conversion mask to use in the data type conversion |
Length | The length of the output data type |
Precision | The precision of the output data type |
Currency | The currency symbol to use during data type conversion |
Decimal | The numeric decimal symbol to use during data type conversion |
Group | The numeric grouping symbol to use during data type conversion |
Trim type | The type of trimming to use during data type conversion |
Repeat | Repeat the column value of the previous row if the column value is empty (null) |