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tHDFSList

tHDFSList retrieves a list of
files or folders based on a filemask pattern and iterates on each
unity.

tHDFSList Standard properties

These properties are used to configure tHDFSList running in the Standard Job framework.

The Standard
tHDFSList component belongs to the Big Data and the File families.

The component in this framework is available when you are using one of the Talend solutions with Big Data.

Basic settings

Property type

Either Built-in or Repository

Built-in: No property data stored
centrally.

Repository: Select the repository
file in which the properties are stored. The fields that follow are
completed automatically using the data retrieved.

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

Select the cluster you are using from the drop-down list. The options in the
list vary depending on the component you are using. Among these options, the following
ones requires specific configuration:

  • If available in this Distribution drop-down list, the Microsoft HD Insight option allows you to
    use a Microsoft HD Insight cluster. For this purpose, you need to configure
    the connections to the WebHCat service, the HD Insight service and the
    Windows Azure Storage service of that cluster in the areas that are
    displayed. A demonstration video about how to configure this connection is
    available in the following link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3QTT6VsNoM.

  • If you select Amazon
    EMR    , you can find more details about how
    to configure an Amazon EMR cluster in Talend Help Center (https://help.talend.com)    .

  • The Custom option
    allows you to connect to a cluster different from any of the distributions
    given in this list, that is to say, to connect to a cluster not officially
    supported by
    Talend
    .

  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.

    In
    Talend

    Exchange, members of
    Talend
     community have shared some ready-for-use configuration zip files
    which you can download from this Hadoop configuration
    list and directly use them in your connection accordingly. However, because of
    the ongoing evolution of the different Hadoop-related projects, you might not be
    able to find the configuration zip corresponding to your distribution from this
    list; then it is recommended to use the Import from
    existing version     option to take an existing distribution as base
    to add the jars required by your distribution.

    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 the 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.

    Note:

    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 Connecting to a custom Hadoop distribution.

Hadoop version

Select the version of the Hadoop distribution you are using. The available
options vary depending on the component you are using. Along with the evolution of
Hadoop, please note the following changes:

  • If you use Hortonworks Data
    Platform V2.2    , the configuration files of your cluster might
    be using environment variables such as ${hdp.version}. If this is your situation, you need to set the mapreduce.application.framework.path property in
    the Hadoop properties table of this
    component with the path value explicitly pointing to the MapReduce framework
    archive of your cluster. For
    example:

  • If you use Hortonworks Data
    Platform V2.0.0    , the type of the operating system for
    running the distribution and a
    Talend
     Job must be the same, such as Windows or Linux. Otherwise, you
    have to use
    Talend
     Jobserver to execute the Job in the same type of operating
    system in which the Hortonworks Data Platform
    V2.0.0     distribution you are using is run.

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 user name to authenticate against the credentials stored in Kerberos.

  • If this cluster is a MapR cluster of the version 4.0.1 or later, you can set the MapR
    ticket authentication configuration in addition or as an alternative by following the
    explanation in Connecting to a security-enabled MapR.

    Keep in mind that this configuration generates a new MapR security ticket for the username
    defined in the Job in each execution. If you need to reuse an existing ticket issued for the
    same username, leave both the Force MapR ticket
    authentication     check box and the Use Kerberos
    authentication     check box clear, and then MapR should be able to automatically
    find that ticket on the fly.

This check box is available depending on the Hadoop distribution you are
connecting to.
Use a keytab to authenticate

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 user name 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.

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; if this WebHDFS is secured
with SSL, the scheme should be swebhdfs and you need to use
a tLibraryLoad in the Job to load the library required by
the secured WebHDFS.

User name

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

HDFS Directory

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

FileList Type

Select the type of input you want to iterate on from the
list:

Files if the input is a set of
files,

Directories if the input is a set
of directories,

Both if the input is a set of the
above two types.

Include subdirectories

Select this check box if the selected input source type includes
sub-directories.

Case Sensitive

Set the case mode from the list to either create or not create
case sensitive filter on filenames.

Use Glob Expressions as Filemask

This check box is selected by default. It filters the results
using a Global Expression (Glob
Expressions).

Files

Click the plus button to add as many filter lines as needed:

Filemask: in the added filter
lines, type in a filename or a filemask using special characters or
regular expressions.

Order by

The folders are listed first of all, then the files. You can
choose to prioritise the folder and file order either:

By default: alphabetical order, by
folder then file;

By file name: alphabetical order or
reverse alphabetical order;

By file size: smallest to largest
or largest to smallest;

By modified date: most recent to
least recent or least recent to most recent.

Note:

If ordering by file name, in
the event of identical file names then modified date takes precedence. If ordering
by file size, in the event
of identical file sizes then file
name takes precedence. If ordering by modified date, in the event of
identical dates then file name
takes precedence.
Order action

Select a sort order by clicking one of the following radio
buttons:

ASC: ascending order;

DESC: descending order;

Advanced settings

Use Exclude Filemask

Select this check box to enable Exclude
Filemask field to exclude filtering condition based
on file type:

Exclude Filemask: Fill in the
field with file types to be excluded from the Filemasks in the Basic
settings view.

Note:

File types in this field should be quoted with double
quotation marks and seperated by comma.

Hadoop properties


Talend Studio
 uses a default configuration for its engine to perform
operations in a Hadoop distribution. If you need to use a custom configuration in a specific
situation, complete this table with the property or properties to be customized. Then at
runtime, the customized property or properties will override those default ones.

  • Note that if you are using the centrally stored metadata from the Repository, this table automatically inherits the
    properties defined in that metadata and becomes uneditable unless you change the
    Property type from Repository to Built-in.

For further information about the properties required by Hadoop and its related systems such
as HDFS and Hive, see the documentation of the Hadoop distribution you
are using or see Apache’s Hadoop documentation on http://hadoop.apache.org/docs and then select the version of the documentation you want. For demonstration purposes, the links to some properties are listed below:

tStatCatcher Statistics

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

Global Variables

Global Variables

CURRENT_FILE: the current file name. This is a Flow
variable and it returns a string.

CURRENT_FILEDIRECTORY: the current file directory. This
is a Flow variable and it returns a string.

CURRENT_FILEEXTENSION: the extension of the current file.
This is a Flow variable and it returns a string.

CURRENT_FILEPATH: the current file path. This is a Flow
variable and it returns a string.

NB_FILE: the number of files iterated upon so far. This is
a Flow 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

Usage rule

tHDFSList provides a list of
files or folders from a defined HDFS directory on which it iterates.

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 Scenario: Reading data from databases through context-based dynamic connections and Scenario: Reading data from different MySQL databases using dynamically loaded connection parameters. For more information on Dynamic
settings and context variables, see
Talend Studio User Guide.

Connections

Outgoing links (from this component to another):

Row: Iterate

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

Incoming links (from one component to this one):

Row: 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.

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 the 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
    hadoophadoop-VERSIONlib
    ative    . For example, the library for
    Windows is lib
    ativeMapRClient.dll     in the MapR
    client jar file. For further information, see the following link from MapR: http://www.mapr.com/blog/basic-notes-on-configuring-eclipse-as-a-hadoop-development-environment-for-mapr.

    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 the 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 the
    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.

Limitation

JRE 1.6+ is required.

Scenario: Iterating on a HDFS directory

This scenario applies only to a Talend solution with Big Data.

This scenario uses a two-component Job to iterate on a specified directory in HDFS so
as to select the files from there towards a local directory.

use_case-thdfslist2.png

Preparing the data to be used

Create the files to be iterated on in the HDFS you want to use. In this
scenario, two files are created in the directory: /user/ychen/data/hdfs/out.

use_case-thdfslist1.png

You can design a Job in the Studio to create the two files. For further
information, see tHDFSPut or tHDFSOutput.

Linking the components

  1. In the
    Integration
     perspective
    of
    Talend Studio
    , create an empty Job, named HDFSList for example, from the Job
    Designs     node in the Repository tree view.

    For further information about how to create a Job, see the
    Talend Studio

    User
    Guide    .
  2. Drop tHDFSList and tHDFSGet onto the workspace.
  3. Connect them using the Row > Iterate
    link.

Configuring the iteration

  1. Double-click tHDFSList to open its
    Component view.

    use_case-thdfslist3.png

  2. In the Version area, select the Hadoop
    distribution you are connecting to and its version.
  3. In the Connection area, enter the values
    of the parameters required to connect to the HDFS.

    In the real-world practice, you may use tHDFSConnection to create a connection and reuse it from the
    current component. For further information, see tHDFSConnection.
  4. In the HDFS Directory field, enter the
    path to the folder where the files to be iterated on are. In this example,
    as presented earlier, the directory is /user/ychen/data/hdfs/out/.
  5. In the FileList Type field, select
    File.
  6. In the Files table, click

    Button_Plus.png

    to add one row and enter * between the quotation marks to iterate on any files
    existing.

Selecting the files

  1. Double-click tHDFSGet to open its
    Component view.

    use_case-thdfslist4.png

  2. In the Version area, select the Hadoop
    distribution you are connecting to and its version.
  3. In the Connection area, enter the values
    of the parameters required to connect to the HDFS.

    In the real-world practice, you may have used tHDFSConnection to create a connection; then you can reuse
    it from the current component. For further information, see tHDFSConnection.
  4. In the HDFS directory field, enter the
    path to the folder holding the files to be retrieved.

    To do this with the auto-completion list, place the mouse pointer in this
    field, then, press Ctrl+Space to display
    the list and select the
    tHDFSList_1_CURRENT_FILEDIRECTORY     variable to reuse the
    directory you have defined in tHDFSList. In
    this variable, tHDFSList_1 is the label
    of the component. If you label it differently, select the variable
    accordingly.
    Once selecting this variable, the directory reads, for example, ((String)globalMap.get(“tHDFSList_1_CURRENT_FILEDIRECTORY”))
    in this field.
    For further information about how to label a component, see the
    Talend Studio

    User
    Guide    .
  5. In the Local directory field, enter the
    path, or browse to the folder you want to place the selected files in. This
    folder will be created if it does not exist. In this example, it is
    C:/hdfsFiles.
  6. In the Overwrite file field, select
    always.
  7. In the Files table, click

    Button_Plus.png

    to add one row and enter * between the quotation marks in the Filemask column in order to get any files existing.

Executing the Job

Press F6 to execute this Job.

Once done, you can check the files created in the local directory.

use_case-thdfslist5.png

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