determines the underlying structure of the information and creates a model of the structure. After you create an
intelligent structure model
you can view, edit, and refine it. For example, you can choose to exclude or combine structure elements. You can normalize repeating groups.
You can create models from the following input types:
Delimited files, for example, CSV files
Machine generated files such as weblogs and clickstreams
JSON files
XML files
ORC files
Avro files
Parquet files
Microsoft Excel files
Data within PDF form fields
Data within Microsoft Word tables
XSD files
When you finish refining the model, you can export it and then associate it with a data object that represents a complex file source in a data engineering mapping.
Alternatively, when you create the data object, you can select an XML, JSON, ORC, Avro, or Parquet sample file.
Intelligent Structure Discovery
creates an
intelligent structure model
based on the sample file that you select.
You cannot edit or refine a model that
Intelligent Structure Discovery
creates automatically. You can only edit a model that you create in Cloud
Data Integration
.
The following image shows the process by which
Intelligent Structure Discovery
deciphers the underlying patterns of data and creates a model of the data patterns: