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Creating Azure Input Data Source

Azure connector allows for retrieval of the file from an Azure blob storage. This connector allows JSON/XML/Text/Excel files to be read from the Azure blob storage.

Steps:

1.     In the New Data Source page, select Input > Azure in the Connector drop-down list.

2.      Enter the following information:

Property

Description

Container

Azure container where the file resides.

Account Name

Azure storage account name.

Account Key

Azure storage account key.

To test the connection, click  .

If   displays, ensure the Container, Account Name, and Account Key values are correct. You can also hover on this message to view the connection error.

File Path

Azure blob file path.

 

3.      Select the Data Type.

4.      Select either the period (.) or comma (,) as the Decimal Separator.

 

   NOTE

Prepend 'default:' for the elements falling under default namespace.

 

5.      Click  to the fetch the schema based on the connection details. Consequently, the list of columns with the data type found from inspecting the first ‘n’ rows of the input data source is populated and the Save button is enabled.

6.      You can also opt to load or save a copy of the column definition.

7.      You can also opt to click  to add columns to the Azure connection that represent sections of the message. Then enter or select:

Property

Description

Name

The column name of the source schema.

JsonPath/Column Index/XPath

The JsonPath/Column Index/XPath of the source schema.

Type

The data type of the column. Can be a Text, Numeric, or Time

Date Format

The format when the data type is Time.

Enabled

Determines whether the message field should be processed.

 

   NOTE

To parse and format times with higher than millisecond precision, the format string needs to end with a period followed by sequence of upper case S. There can be no additional characters following them.

For example: yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss.SSSSSS

 

To delete a column, check its  or all the column entries, check the topmost , then click .

8.      Click . The new data source is added in the Data Sources list.