Validating data against schema

This scenario applies only to Talend Data Management Platform, Talend Big Data Platform, Talend Real Time Big Data Platform, Talend Data Services Platform, Talend MDM Platform and Talend Data Fabric.

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This scenario presents a Job that checks the type, nullability and length of data from an incoming flow against a defined reference schema, and displays the validation results on the Run console.

The incoming flow comes from a simple CSV file that contains heterogeneous data including wrong data type, data exceeding the maximum length, wrong ID and null values in non-nullable columns, as shown below:

ID;Name;BirthDate;State;City
1;Dwight;06-04-2008;Delaware;Concord
2;Warren;25-10-2008;Montana
3;Benjamin;17-08-2008;Washington;Austin
4;Harry;14-04-2008;Kansas;Annapolis
5;Ulysses;2007-04-12;Michigan;Raleigh
6;James;19-08-2007;Delaware;Charleston
.7;Bill;20-04-2007;Illinois;Bismarck
8;Ulysses;04-12-2008;;Saint Paul
9;Thomas;09-05-2008;Maryland;Albany
10;Ronald;11-02-2008;Florida;Hartford