read dbf file in talend 2020 with "tdbfInput" Exception

[aminegac]

hello , i found no one posting about dbf files , i found big difficulty checking how to read dbf files to extract data from them and use them later , so i finally found the hand made component "tDBFinput" in the exchange talend web site , i found 3 of them. i downloaded them and successfully used each time one of them in talend open studio v7.3.1 , my problem is that all 3 "tDBFinput" either return null when i try to extract data from any dbf file even the simplest examples , and my main problem is that it shows an exception when i try to load a 15mb dbf file that i checked and visualized in dbf viewers apps , i mean the file is correct and i could open it in other apps while every column and its data is shown well and correctly but in talend it always shows exception "dbflib.CorruptedTableException: Number of field descriptions in file could not be calculated"

is there any way to load the content of a ".dbf" file in talend v7.x ?? or to properly use the "tDBFinput" component ??

[Anonymous]

Hello,

Which version tDBFinput component are you using? The version 2.0 of the tDBFInput component?

So far, tDBFxxx components are not provided by Talend officially.

Best regards

Sabrina

[aminegac]

Hello Mrs.Sabrina ,

thx for the quick reply .

i am used all these 3 in the photo below , but let's assume i will only be using 2.0 the first compnent in the photo.

i always get that kind of exception dbflib.CorruptedTableException: Number of field descriptions in file could not be calculated when i try to read dbf files that i have .

my biggest problem is that i need to read any bdf file without knowing the fields' names and tables' names that are in .

what i mean is that is there a way to extract all data from a .DBF file with generic or dynamic fields.??

or at least with field names that i set myself assuming that i am the creator of that dbf file and i know what table and column names are in it .