LDIF Input
Description
LDIF is short for LDAP Data Interchange Format. See also: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LDIF. The LDIF Input transform reads information from such files.
Options
Files Tab
Option | Description |
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Transform name | Name of the transform this name has to be unique in a single pipeline. |
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 |
Include filename in output? | Allows you to specify a field name to include the file name (String) in the output of this transform. |
Rownum in output | Allows you to specify a field name to include the row number (Integer) in the output of this transform. |
Include content type? | Allows you to specify a field name to include the content type (String) in the output of this transform. |
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 |
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) |