Book Image

Talend Open Studio Cookbook

By : Rick Barton
Book Image

Talend Open Studio Cookbook

By: Rick Barton

Overview of this book

Data integration is a key component of an organization's technical strategy, yet historically the tools have been very expensive. Talend Open Studio is the world's leading open source data integration product and has played a huge part in making open source data integration a popular choice for businesses worldwide.This book is a welcome addition to the small but growing library of Talend Open Studio resources. From working with schemas to creating and validating test data, to scheduling your Talend code, you will get acquainted with the various Talend database handling techniques. Each recipe is designed to provide the key learning point in a short, simple and effective manner.This comprehensive guide provides practical exercises that cover all areas of the Talend development lifecycle including development, testing, debugging and deployment. The book delivers design patterns, hints, tips, and advice in a series of short and focused exercises that can be approached as a reference for more seasoned developers or as a series of useful learning tutorials for the beginner.The book covers the basics in terms of schema usage and mappings, along with dedicated sections that will allow you to get more from tMap, files, databases and XML. Geared towards the whole lifecycle, the Talend Open Studio Cookbook shows readers great ways to handle everyday tasks, and provides an insight into all areas of a development cycle including coding, testing, and debugging of code to provide start-to-finish coverage of the product.
Table of Contents (21 chapters)
Talend Open Studio Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Common Type Conversions
Index

Find the location of compilation errors using the Problems tab


When you begin working with Talend, you will inevitably hit compilation errors when you run a job. This recipe will show you how to easily identify the errors using Talend.

Getting ready

Open the jo_cook_ch10_0010_findCompilationErrors job.

How to do it...

The steps for finding the location of compilation errors using the Problems tab is as follows:

  1. Run the job, and Talend will notify you that the job has compilation errors. Click on Cancel to stop the job executing.

  2. Now click on the Problems tab, and you will see the errors, as shown in the following screenshot:

  3. If you click one each on you will see that the focus moves between the two tMap components. This means that there is an error in each of the tMap components.

  4. To locate the error exactly, click on the Code tab, highlighted in the previous diagram.

  5. You should now see the generated Java code and that there are two red markers on the right-hand side of the code.

  6. Click on the top marker...