Developer Transformation Guide

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Creating a Write Transformation from Mapping Flow

You can create and configure a Write transformation in the mapping editor.

You might want to use this method if you want to configure specific properties for the transformation. For example, you can create the transformation, and then configure it to define columns based on mapping flow and to get column metadata from the data source at run time.

Right-click in the mapping editor and select

Add Transformation

The

Add Transformation

dialog box opens.

Select

Write

and click

The

New Write Transformation

wizard opens.

Select

Physical Data Object

Logical Data Object

, and then click

Browse

The

Select Data Object

dialog box opens.

Select a data source, click

Select

Mapping flow

, and then click

Finish

Drag ports from the All Ports port of the upstream to the

Input

port of the Write transformation.

The following image shows how to connect upstream ports to the

Input

port of the Write transformation:

The Write transformation receives column definitions from upstream mapping objects.

To dynamically update target object columns at run time with changes from the target file, select

At run-time, get data object columns from data source

The Data Integration Service refreshes the column metadata for the Write transformation when the mapping runs.

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Developer Transformation Guide

Developer Transformation Guide

Creating a Write Transformation from Mapping Flow

Creating a Write Transformation from Mapping Flow