tMongoDBOutput Standard properties

Use existing connection

Select this check box and in the Component List drop-down list, select the desired connection component to reuse the connection details you already defined.

DB Version

List of the database versions.

Available when the Use existing connection check box is not selected.

Use replica set address

Select this check box to show the Replica address table.

In the Replica address table, you can define multiple MongoDB database servers for failover.

Available when the Use existing connection check box is not selected.

Server and Port

IP address and listening port of the database server.

Available when the Use existing connection or Use replica set address check box is not selected.

Database

Name of the database.

Use SSL connection

Select this check box to enable the SSL or TLS encrypted connection.

Then you need to use the tSetKeystore component in the same Job to specify the encryption information.

Note that the SSL connection is available only for the version 2.4 + of MongoDB.

Set write concern

Select this check box to set the level of acknowledgement requested from for write operations. Then you need to select the level of this operation.

For further information, see the related MongoDB documentation on http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/write-concern/.

Bulk write

Select this check box to insert, update or remove data in bulk. Note this feature is available only when the version of MongoDB you are using is 2.6+.

In the Bulk write size field, enter the size of each query group to be processed by MongoDB. In the documentation of MongoDB, some restrictions and expected behaviors as to this size are explained. You can find the details on http://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/bulk-write-operations/.

Required authentication

Select this check box to enable the database authentication.

Among the mechanisms listed on the Authentication mechanism drop-down list, the NEGOTIATE one is recommended if you are not using Kerberos, because it automatically select the authentication mechanism the most adapted to the MongoDB version you are using.

For details about the other mechanisms in this list, see MongoDB Authentication from the MongoDB documentation.

Set Authentication database

If the username to be used to connect to MongoDB has been created in a specific Authentication database of MongoDB, select this check box to enter the name of this Authentication database in the Authentication database field that is displayed.

For further information about the MongoDB Authentication database, see User Authentication database.

Username and Password

DB user authentication data.

To enter the password, click the [...] button next to the password field, and then in the pop-up dialog box enter the password between double quotes and click OK to save the settings.

Available when the Required authentication check box is selected.

If the security system you have selected from the Authentication mechanism drop-down list is Kerberos, you need to enter the User principal, the Realm and the KDC server fields instead of the Username and the Password fields.

Collection

Name of the collection in the MongoDB database.

Drop collection if exist

Select this check box to drop the collection if it already exists.

Action on data

Schema and Edit Schema

A schema is a row description. It defines the number of fields (columns) to be processed and passed on to the next component. When you create a Spark Job, avoid the reserved word line when naming the fields.

Click Edit schema to make changes to the schema. If the current schema is of the Repository type, three options are available:

• View schema: choose this option to view the schema only.

• Change to built-in property: choose this option to change the schema to Built-in for local changes.

• Update repository connection: choose this option to change the schema stored in the repository and decide whether to propagate the changes to all the Jobs upon completion. If you just want to propagate the changes to the current Job, you can select No upon completion and choose this schema metadata again in the Repository Content window.

Click Sync columns to retrieve the schema from the previous component connected in the Job.

Built-In: You create and store the schema locally for this component only.

Repository: You have already created the schema and stored it in the Repository. You can reuse it in various projects and Job designs.

When the schema to be reused has default values that are integers or functions, ensure that these default values are not enclosed within quotation marks. If they are, you must remove the quotation marks manually.

For more information, see the related description of retrieving table schemas in Talend Studio User Guide.

Mapping

Each column of the schema defined for this component represents a field of the documents to be read. In this table, you need to specify the parent nodes of these fields, if any.

{
               _id: ObjectId("5099803df3f4948bd2f98391"),
               person: { first: "Joe", last: "Walker" }
            }

Column     Parent node path
_id
first       "person"
last        "person"

Updatable and Insertable: As the name applies, specify whether or not a field can be updated and inserted. These two columns appear when Upser with set is selected from the Action on data drop-down list.

Not available when the Generate JSON Document check box is selected in Advanced settings.

Die on error

This check box is cleared by default, meaning to skip the row on error and to complete the process for error-free rows.

Generate JSON Document

Select this check box for JSON configuration:

Create empty element if needed: If the Related Column in the XML tree editor has null values, or if no column is associated with the XML node, this option creates an open/close tag in the expected place. This check box is selected by default.

Ignore service attributes for empty elements: Select this option to prevent the component from generating a node if the input node is null but has service attributes (such as @type, @class, and @array). This option is available when the Create empty element if needed option is not selected.

Group by: click the [+] button to add lines and choose the input columns for grouping the records.

Remove root node: select this check box to remove the root node.

Data node and Query node (available for update and upsert actions): type in the name of data node and query node configured on the JSON tree.

No query timeout

Select this check box to prevent MongoDB servers from stopping idle cursors at the end of 10-minute inactivity of these cursors. In this situation, an idle cursor will stay open until either the results of this cursor are exhausted or you manually close it using the cursor.close() method.

A cursor for MongoDB is a pointer to the result set of a query. By default, that is to say, with this check box being clear, a MongoDB server automatically stops idle cursors after a given inactivity period to avoid excess memory use. For further information about MongoDB cursors, see https://docs.mongodb.org/manual/core/cursors/.

tStatCatcher Statistics

Select this check box to collect the log data at the component level.

Global Variables

NB_LINE: the number of rows read by an input component or transferred to an output component. This is an After variable and it returns an integer.

ERROR_MESSAGE: the error message generated by the component when an error occurs. This is an After variable and it returns a string. This variable functions only if the Die on error check box is cleared, if the component has this check box.

A Flow variable functions during the execution of a component while an After variable functions after the execution of the component.

To fill up a field or expression with a variable, press Ctrl + Space to access the variable list and choose the variable to use from it.

For further information about variables, see Talend Studio User Guide.

Usage rule

tMongoDBOutput executes the action defined on the collection in the MongoDB database based on the flow incoming from the preceding component in the Job.

Limitation