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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

Cutting and pasting schema information


This technique is a real time saver, but isn’t always immediately obvious, because the schema dialogue does not contain a right-click option.

Getting ready

Make a copy of the job jo_cook_ch02_0020_builtInSchema, rename it to jo_cook_ch02_0030_copySchema, and open the new job.

How to do it…

  1. Drag a tFileOutputExcel component from the right-hand palette.

  2. Open tFileOutputDelimited, and then open the schema.

  3. Click the left-hand panel and press Ctrl+A to select all the columns.

  4. Press Ctrl+C to copy the highlighted columns.

  5. Open the tFileOutputExcel component, and then open the schema. It should be blank.

  6. Press CTRL+V to paste the columns.

How it works…

Talend allows the standard windows shortcut keys to be used to cut and paste column information between schemas.

There’s more…

You can also use Ctrl+left mouse button to highlight individual columns and Shift+left mouse button to highlight a range as per the usual Windows conventions.

Tip

Note that the pasted columns are...