Expression editor compilation/Test Issue

[tnewbie]

Hello Experts,

I have a job that works well and is doing what it is supposed to do...however when i try to test the code in Expression Editor, it still shows errors, but not doing anything i run the job and it works perfectly well. I have observed this issue in many other jobs as well, I am not sure if i am missing anything here...being new to Talend, please bear with this basic question.

From the below images you can see my over all job, tmap in that job(marked as 1) and the Expression editor code(marked as 2), while it gives some compilation errors from the Expression editor, job runs perfectly fine and gives the desired result...please let me know your thoughts on this.

[Anonymous]

Can you assign values to some variables before you do your test?

It may also be necessary to delete some items from that box

I suggest you start with something simple : 1+1 

[tnewbie]

Hi Dmg01,

I think the "Test" section is to test the code that we have written in the Expression editor...and the values to these variables would be picked from the thread (from the source)

I guess there would be some documentation which can talk a bit about what the intent of the 'Test' section and how it is supposed to work. 

[Anonymous]

you can edith the values in other to do your test

I did it, and it works

[tnewbie]

Thanks dgm01...will try that.