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Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook

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Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook

Overview of this book

Pentaho Data Integration (PDI, also called Kettle), one of the data integration tools leaders, is broadly used for all kind of data manipulation such as migrating data between applications or databases, exporting data from databases to flat files, data cleansing, and much more. Do you need quick solutions to the problems you face while using Kettle? Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook explains Kettle features in detail through clear and practical recipes that you can quickly apply to your solutions. The recipes cover a broad range of topics including processing files, working with databases, understanding XML structures, integrating with Pentaho BI Suite, and more. Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook shows you how to take advantage of all the aspects of Kettle through a set of practical recipes organized to find quick solutions to your needs. The initial chapters explain the details about working with databases, files, and XML structures. Then you will see different ways for searching data, executing and reusing jobs and transformations, and manipulating streams. Further, you will learn all the available options for integrating Kettle with other Pentaho tools. Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook has plenty of recipes with easy step-by-step instructions to accomplish specific tasks. There are examples and code that are ready for adaptation to individual needs.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Sending e-mails with attached files


Nowadays, it is very common to use e-mails to exchange digital messages from one author to several recipients. These e-mails can also have a list of files attached that will be sent along with the message.

Kettle offers job entries and transformation steps that allow the sending of e-mails with attached files. In this recipe, you will use the Email job entry to send an e-mail with a set of files attached with a particular condition: the files must have been modified after a given date.

Getting ready

You need a directory named filesToAttach containing sample files. You will also need access to an SMTP server. You can use the smtp.gmail.com server. You also need at least one valid account to play with.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps:

  1. Create a new transformation.

  2. Drop a Get Files Names from the Input category.

  3. Under the File tab, type or browse for the filesToAttach folder in the File or directory textbox. Type .* in the Regular Expression textbox...