OrientDB Manual

ETL - Sources

Source components represent the source where to extract the content. Source is optional, some Extractor like JDBCExtractor works without a source.

Available Sources
file input http

File

Represents a source file where to start reading. Files can be text files or compressed with tar.gz.

  • Component name: file

Syntax

Parameter Description Type Mandatory Default value
path File path string true -
lock Lock the file while the extraction phase boolean false false

Example

Extracts from the file "/temp/actor.tar.gz":

{ "file": { "path": "/temp/actor.tar.gz", "lock" : true } }

Input

Extracts data from console input. This is useful when the ETL works in PIPE with other tools

  • Component name: input

Syntax

Parameter Description Type Mandatory Default value

Example

Extracts the file as input

cat /etc/csv|oetl.sh "{transformers:[{csv:{}}]}"

HTTP

Use a HTTP endpoint as content source.

  • Component name: http

Syntax

Parameter Description Type Mandatory Default value
url HTTP URL to invoke String true -
method HTTP Method between "GET", "POST", "PUT", "DELETE", "HEAD", "OPTIONS", "TRACE" String false GET
headers Request headers as inner document key/value Document false

Example

Execute a HTTP request against the URL "http://ip.jsontest.com/" in GET setting the User-Agent in headers:

{ "http": {
    "url": "http://ip.jsontest.com/",
    "method": "GET",
    "headers": {
      "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/36.0.1985.125 Safari/537.36"
    }
  }
}