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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

Calling a SOAP web service


This recipe shows how a SOAP-based web service can be called from Talend. We will be using a very simple Talend web service that will return the weather conditions in a given city.

Getting ready...

  1. Open the job jo_cook_ch09_weatherService and run it. You will see the output in the console, the last line of which will be web service [endpoint: http://localhost:8090/services/cookbookWeatherService] published.

  2. This means that the web service is now available to be called by our consumer job.

  3. Now open the job jo_cook_ch09_0060_consumeSOAP.

How to do it...

  1. Drag a tESBConsumer component to the canvas and open it.

  2. Change the WSDL to http://localhost:8090/services/cookbookWeatherService?wsdl.

  3. Tick the box for Populate schema to repository on finish. This will ensure the XML metadata schemas we need for the SOAP request and response are created in the repository for us to use later.

  4. Click on the button to refresh the details, as highlighted in the following screenshot, and you will...