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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

Some complex date formats


Java provides a wide range of date options that can be used to define date formats, but sometimes the options to choose for a particular date time string aren't immediately obvious.

Some date formats that may prove useful are as follows:

  • ISO 8601 with offset standard: This format contains date, time, and the offset from UTC, as well as the T character that designates the start of the time, for example, 2007-04-05T12:30:22-02:00.

    The pattern for this date and time format is yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssXXX.

  • Mtime pattern: The tFileProperties component returns a field named mtime_string that is a string representation of a date and time format, for example, Wed Mar 13 23:53:07 GMT 2013.

    The pattern for this date and time format is EEE MMM dd HH:mm:ss z yyyy.