LDIF Input

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
Step Name	Name of the step; the name has to be unique in a single transformation.
Files origin	Get filename from field? : the previous step is giving filenames in a certain field in the input stream. These are read. Filename field : specify the field to the filenames from.
File or directory	Specifies the location and/or name of the input text file. *Important*: Click Add to add the file/directory/wildcard combination to the list of selected files (grid) below.
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
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	Add files to result filename : Adds the XML filenames read to the result of this transformation. A unique list is being kept in memory that can be used in the next job entry in a job, for example in another transformation.

Fields

Option	Description
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)