topic Re: How to filter lines with Regex from an input directory and write to Kafka? in Talend Studio

How to filter lines with Regex from an input directory and write to Kafka?

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 00:07:00 GMT

I'd like to read files from a directory and write the lines in each file that satisfy a regular expression into Kafka. I need to include the file name in the line written to Kafka. For e.g. if the file is /exp/talend/first.txt and it has a line first then the line to Kafka should be /exp/talend/first.txt:first. Now I use the tFileList component and connect it to tFileInputRegex component with an iterate connection. However when I give the context variable for the file name as "file Name Stream: ((String)globalMap.get("tFileList_1_CURRENT_FILEPATH"))" the red error on the regex component does not go away and the task does not run. The documentation for the tFileList shows this as a global variable during flow execution.

Re: How to filter lines with Regex from an input directory and write to Kafka?

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 07:45:31 GMT

Hello,

Would you mins posting your current job design screenshots on forum which will be helpful for us to address your issue?

Best regards

Sabrina

Re: How to filter lines with Regex from an input directory and write to Kafka?

Anonymous — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 16:36:57 GMT

Attached are the screen shots, very simple work flow.

TalendScreenShots.pdf

Re: How to filter lines with Regex from an input directory and write to Kafka?

Jesperrekuh — Wed, 20 Jun 2018 19:00:30 GMT

Im not sure but you are escaping \" in your regex, make sure you escape properly because a \ slash is also an escape char in regex, so ... \\\ , three slashes to escape one slash, not 100% sure, but google a bit on escaping double quotes in java and regex