tFileTouch – Docs for ESB 5.x

Component Family

File/Management

Function

tFileTouch either creates an
empty file or, if the specified file already exists, updates its
date of modification and of last access while keeping the contents
unchanged.

Purpose

This component creates an empty file or updates the details of an
existing file for further operations, and creates the destination
directory if it does not exist.

Basic settings

File Name

Path and name of the file to be created and/or the variable to be
used.

Create directory if not exists

This check box is selected by default. It creates a directory to
hold the output table if it does not exist.

Advanced settings

tStatCatcher Statistics

Select this check box to gather the processing metadata at the Job
level as well as at each component level.

Usage

This component can be used as a standalone component.

Connections

Outgoing links (from this component to another):

Row: Main.

Trigger: On Subjob Ok; On Subjob
Error; Run if; On Component Ok; On Component Error.

Incoming links (from one component to this one):

Row: Main; Reject; Iterate.

Trigger: Run if; On Subjob Ok; On
Subjob Error; On component Ok; On Component Error; Synchronize;
Parallelize.

For further information regarding connections, see
Talend Studio
User Guide.

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 further information about variables, see Talend Studio
User Guide.

Log4j

The activity of this component can be logged using the log4j feature. For more information on this feature, see Talend Studio User
Guide.

For more information on the log4j logging levels, see the Apache documentation at http://logging.apache.org/log4j/1.2/apidocs/org/apache/log4j/Level.html.