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Talend Open Studio Cookbook

By : Rick Barton
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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 RESTful web service


This recipe shows how a RESTful web service can be called from Talend. The REST service we will be using is a Google maps service, so you will need to be connected to the Internet to perform this recipe.

Getting ready

Open the job jo_cook_ch09_0070_consumeRestService.

How to do it...

  1. Drag a tRESTClient component onto the canvas.

  2. Set the URL to http://maps.googleapis.com the Relative Path to "maps/api/geocode/xml".

  3. Add two Query Parameters "address" with a value of "Trafalgar Square" and "sensor" with a value of "false".

  4. Your tRestClient should look like the one below:

  5. Link a tLogRow component to the response and error flows out of the tRestClient component.

  6. Run the job.

How it works...

The tRestClient is a component that enables us to define all of the features of a REST request. In this case, we define the URL of the Google APIs, and then the Geocoder API within the maps functions.

Finally, we define the address for which we wish to provide the information.

There's more...