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Options

Main Configuration

Option

Definition

Example

Step name

The name of this step as it appears in the transformation workspace.

 


Location

File system type of where the Avro output data will be written

Local, Hadoop Cluster, S3, HDFS, MapRFS

File name

The fully qualified URL  where the Avro input data will be read from.  URL will be of different format depending on file system type (Location field).

file:///C:/avro-input-file _

 

 

Fields Tab

The Fields tab defines the fields that will make up the Avro schema that will be created by this step.  These fields can be defined manually.  Or users can click "Get Fields" button to populate these fields from the incoming PDI stream.

Option

Definition

Editable

Example(s)

Avro path

The name of the field as it will appear in the Avro Schema and avro file

No

 


Name

The name of the PDI field

Yes

User is able to change the name of the field for further processing

Type

The data type of the field

Yes

String, Integer, etc. The types can be changed by the user, if the user does not think the column types were determined correctly.

Get Fields (button)

If user clicks this button, the fields table will be populated with fields from the incoming PDI stream.

 



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titleNote

The default format mask for date type is yyyy-MM-dd. The default format mask for timestamp type is yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSS. If the data is stored is any other format and was stored as a string data type, it will not be possible to retrieve the column data. In that case, null will be returned for that column.

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The schema tab defines the location of the Avro schema file that will be used.  Reference:  https://avro.apache.org/docs/1.8.1/spec.html


Option

Definition

Example(s)

File Name

The fully qualified URL of the Avro schema.  URL will be of different format depending on file system type (Location field). The shema file name is not required here. If the user does not provide the schema filename, the fields will be retrieved from the embedded schema in the avro data file.

_file:///C:/avro-output-schema_

Metadata Injection Support (7.x and later)

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