How can I join two flows into one? (Unite does not work)

[Anonymous]

Hi,
I found several times that a flow must branch to follow different processing but after a few components they are ready to join again.
Currently I handle this situation generating several files and then processing. But, Is there any better way to joint to flows?
I attach a screenshot.
Thank you

[Anonymous]

For the tJoin to work, it needs the schema of the input rows (their columns definition) to be the exact same.

[Anonymous]

But I don't want to join. I just one to concatenate both flows. Just like tUnite

[Anonymous]

Sry, I meant tUnite, not tJoin, needs all input rows to have the same schema.

[Anonymous]

Talend does not seem to allow this (see http://www.talendforge.org/bugs/view.php?id=10702)
Has anyone come up with a solution to this problem that doesn't involve writing to temporary files?

[jkrfs]

I was able to make something like this work for a reconciliation program. Not sure its exactly what you're looking for....
Ignore the names and look at the flows. The tmap first outputs my main/rejected outputs, they each go to an output (I only kept one of them to keep file size small), I sorted/filtered them and then I output them to a temporary csv file.
Then I input those csv files and was able to join them however I wanted. Please note that the second image is a subjob of the first image.

[Anonymous]

Talend does not allow a "closed circuit". You can unite separte sources into one flow but cannot - start,split,unite- again. In the OP's picture I would use a second tFileOutputDelimited in append mode. Using temp files or use of child jobs and tBufferOutput then tUnite are the usual ways to accomplish these kinds of operations.

Josh

[Anonymous]

I use now temporary files and splitted the problem into multiple minor ones

[Anonymous]

Warning:tUnite cannot exist in a data flow loop. For instance, if a data flow goes through several tMap components to generate two flows, they cannot be fed to tUnite.

This statement is from talend.
I am stuck in the similar position where i am creating two flow from a tmap and then need to take the union of these 2 flows ,, i tried to use tunite but on research i got to know the above mentioned statement. Please help is there any other possible way or any other component to achieve this ????

Your response would be very much appreciated i anyone can help. Talend Team???

[Anonymous]

hi,
when you say :

i am creating two flow from a tmap

you're on the right road
but you have  to create your 2 ouptput as a single ouptut !
Create your first output as usual , create second outpout as a 'join table' .
You will have a unique output at the end.
It's very useful, when you have to do different things on data depending on filter, values & so on , but result should be in the same flow.
your 2 differents output need to have same schema of course


hope it helps
regards
laurent