Inline Reader

Reading from an inline list

In some cases, e.g. for testing things, it may be useful to just hack in a list of IDs into the configuration file. This is what the "inline reader" is for:

<Source config="[field name]">inline://[value list]</Source>

The field name gives the name of the single field (which is the only thing currently supported by the inline reader), whereas value list gives a semicolon ; separated list of explicit values. These values will be treated as a record each, and can be referenced using the Field Operator and the name given in field name.

Example:

<Transformation>
  <Source config="Id">inline://1;2;3;4;5</Source>
  <Target config="delim=';'">file://C:\Temp\dummy.csv</Target>

  <Mappings>
    <Mapping>
      <Fields>
        <Field name="Id">$Id</Field>
        <Field name="Text">"This is the record with key " + $Id</Field>
      </Fields>
    </Mapping>
  </Mappings>
</Transformation>

This will output a CSV file at C:\Temp\dummy.csv containing the following data:

Id;Text
1;This is the record with key 1
2;This is the record with key 2
3;This is the record with key 3
4;This is the record with key 4
5;This is the record with key 5