tHDFSInput Standard properties

Property type

Either Built-In or Repository.

Built-In: No property data stored centrally.

Repository: Select the repository file where the properties are stored.

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.

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.

Use an existing connection

Select this check box and in the Component List click the HDFS connection component from which you want to reuse the connection details already defined.

Note that when a Job contains the parent Job and the child Job, Component List presents only the connection components in the same Job level.

Distribution

1. Select Import from existing version to import an officially supported distribution as base and then add other required jar files which the base distribution does not provide.

2. Select Import from zip to import the configuration zip for the custom distribution to be used. This zip file should contain the libraries of the different Hadoop elements and the index file of these libraries.

   Note that custom versions are not officially supported by Talend . Talend and its community provide you with the opportunity to connect to custom versions from Talend Studio but cannot guarantee that the configuration of whichever version you choose will be easy, due to the wide range of different Hadoop distributions and versions that are available. As such, you should only attempt to set up such a connection if you have sufficient Hadoop experience to handle any issues on your own.

   Information noteNote:

   In this dialog box, the active check box must be kept selected so as to import the jar files pertinent to the connection to be created between the custom distribution and this component.

   For a step-by-step example about how to connect to a custom distribution and share this connection, see Hortonworks.

Version

Select the version of the Hadoop distribution you are using. The available options vary depending on the component you are using.

• HDFS
• WebHDFS. WebHDFS with SSL is not supported yet.
• ADLS. Only Azure Data Lake Storage Gen1 is supported.

The schemes present on this list vary depending on the distribution you are using and only the scheme that appears on this list with a given distribution is officially supported by Talend.

Once a scheme is selected, the corresponding syntax such as webhdfs://localhost:50070/ for WebHDFS is displayed in the field for the NameNode location of your cluster.

NameNode URI

Type in the URI of the Hadoop NameNode, the master node of a Hadoop system. For example, we assume that you have chosen a machine called masternode as the NameNode, then the location is hdfs://masternode:portnumber. If you are using WebHDFS, the location should be webhdfs://masternode:portnumber; WebHDFS with SSL is not supported yet.

Use kerberos authentication

If you are accessing the Hadoop cluster running with Kerberos security, select this check box, then, enter the Kerberos principal name for the NameNode in the field displayed. This enables you to use your username to authenticate against the credentials stored in Kerberos.

This check box is available depending on the Hadoop distribution you are connecting to.

Select the Use a keytab to authenticate check box to log into a Kerberos-enabled system using a given keytab file. A keytab file contains pairs of Kerberos principals and encrypted keys. You need to enter the principal to be used in the Principal field and the access path to the keytab file itself in the Keytab field. This keytab file must be stored in the machine in which your Job actually runs, for example, on a Talend JobServer.

Note that the user that executes a keytab-enabled Job is not necessarily the one a principal designates but must have the right to read the keytab file being used. For example, the username you are using to execute a Job is user1 and the principal to be used is guest; in this situation, ensure that user1 has the right to read the keytab file to be used.

User name

The User name field is available when you are not using Kerberos to authenticate. In the User name field, enter the login username for your distribution. If you leave it empty, the username of the machine hosting Talend Studio will be used.

Group

Enter the membership including the authentication user under which the HDFS instances were started. This field is available depending on the distribution you are using.

File Name

Browse to, or enter the path pointing to the data to be used in the file system.

If the path you set points to a folder, this component will read all of the files stored in that folder. Furthermore, if sub-folders exist in that folder and you need to read files in the sub-folders, select the Include sub-directories if path is directory check box in the Advanced settings view.

Type

Row separator

The separator used to identify the end of a row.

This field is not available for a Sequence file.

Field separator

Enter a character, a string, or a regular expression to separate fields for the transferred data.

This field is not available for a Sequence file.

Header

Set values to ignore the header of the transferred data. For example, enter 0 to ignore no rows for the data without header and set 1 for the data with header at the first row.

This field is not available for a Sequence file.

Custom encoding

You may encounter encoding issues when you process the stored data. In that situation, select this check box to display the Encoding list.

Select the encoding from the list or select Custom and define it manually. This field is compulsory for database data handling. The supported encodings depend on the JVM that you are using. For more information, see https://docs.oracle.com.

This option is not available for a Sequence file.

Compression

Select the Uncompress the data check box to uncompress the input data.

Hadoop provides different compression formats that help reduce the space needed for storing files and speed up data transfer. When reading a compressed file, Talend Studio needs to uncompress it before being able to feed it to the input flow.

This option is not available for a Sequence file.

Include sub-directories if path is directory

Select this check box to read not only the folder you have specified in the File name field but also the sub-folders in that folder.

Hadoop properties

tStatCatcher Statistics

Select this check box to collect log data at the component level. Note that this check box is not available in the Map/Reduce version of the component.

Global Variables

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 more information about variables, see Using contexts and variables.

Usage rule

This component needs an output link.

Dynamic settings

Click the [+] button to add a row in the table and fill the Code field with a context variable to choose your HDFS connection dynamically from multiple connections planned in your Job. This feature is useful when you need to access files in different HDFS systems or different distributions, especially when you are working in an environment where you cannot change your Job settings, for example, when your Job has to be deployed and executed independent of Talend Studio .

The Dynamic settings table is available only when the Use an existing connection check box is selected in the Basic settings view. Once a dynamic parameter is defined, the Component List box in the Basic settings view becomes unusable.

For examples on using dynamic parameters, see Reading data from databases through context-based dynamic connections and Reading data from different MySQL databases using dynamically loaded connection parameters. For more information on Dynamic settings and context variables, see Dynamic schema and Creating a context group and define context variables in it.

Prerequisites

The Hadoop distribution must be properly installed, so as to guarantee the interaction with Talend Studio . The following list presents MapR related information for example.

• Ensure that you have installed the MapR client in the machine where Talend Studio is, and added the MapR client library to the PATH variable of that machine. According to MapR's documentation, the library or libraries of a MapR client corresponding to each OS version can be found under MAPR_INSTALL\ hadoop\hadoop-VERSION\lib\native. For example, the library for Windows is \lib\native\MapRClient.dll in the MapR client jar file.

  Without adding the specified library or libraries, you may encounter the following error: no MapRClient in java.library.path.

• Set the -Djava.library.path argument, for example, in the Job Run VM arguments area of the Run/Debug view in the Preferences dialog box in the Window menu. This argument provides to Talend Studio the path to the native library of that MapR client. This allows the subscription-based users to make full use of the Data viewer to view locally in Talend Studio the data stored in MapR.

For further information about how to install a Hadoop distribution, see the manuals corresponding to the Hadoop distribution you are using.

Limitations

JRE 1.6+ is required.