Talend Component Kit Developer Guide

Getting started with Talend Component Kit

Talend Component Kit is a Java framework designed to simplify the development of components at two levels:

  • The Runtime, that injects the specific component code into a job or pipeline. The framework helps unifying as much as possible the code required to run in Data Integration (DI) and BEAM environments.

  • The Graphical interface. The framework helps unifying the code required to render the component in a browser or in the Eclipse-based Talend Studio (SWT).

Most part of the development happens as a Maven or Gradle project and requires a dedicated tool such as IntelliJ.

The Component Kit is made of:

  • A Starter, that is a graphical interface allowing you to define the skeleton of your development project.

  • APIs to implement components UI and runtime.

  • Development tools: Maven and Gradle wrappers, validation rules, packaging, Web preview, etc.

  • A testing kit based on JUnit 4 and 5.

By using this tooling in a development environment, you can start creating components as described below.

Talend Component Kit methodology

Developing new components using the Component Kit framework includes:

  1. Creating a project using the starter or the Talend IntelliJ plugin. This step allows to build the skeleton of the project. It consists in:

    1. Defining the general configuration model for each component in your project.

    2. Generating and downloading the project archive from the starter.

    3. Compiling the project.

  2. Importing the compiled project in your IDE. This step is not required if you have generated the project using the IntelliJ plugin.

  3. Implementing the components, including:

    1. Registering the components by specifying their metadata: family, categories, version, icon, type and name.

    2. Defining the layout and configurable part of the components.

    3. Defining the execution logic of the components, also called runtime.

  4. Testing the components.

  5. Deploying the components to Talend Studio or Cloud applications.

Optionally, you can use services. Services are predefined or user-defined configurations that can be reused in several components.

Methodology

Component types

There are four types of components, each type coming with its specificities, especially on the runtime side.

  • Input components: Retrieve the data to process from a defined source. An input component is made of:

    • The execution logic of the component, represented by a Mapper or an Emitter class.

    • The source logic of the component, represented by a Source class.

    • The layout of the component and the configuration that the end-user will need to provide when using the component, defined by a Configuration class. All input components must have a dataset specified in their configuration, and every dataset must use a datastore.

  • Processors: Process and transform the data. A processor is made of:

    • The execution logic of the component, describing how to process each records or batches of records it receives. It also describes how to pass records to its output connections. This logic is defined in a Processor class.

    • The layout of the component and the configuration that the end-user will need to provide when using the component, defined by a Configuration class.

  • Output components: Send the processed data to a defined destination. An output component is made of:

    • The execution logic of the component, describing how to process each records or batches of records it receives. This logic is defined in an Output class. Unlike processors, output components are the last components of the execution and return no data.

    • The layout of the component and the configuration that the end-user will need to provide when using the component, defined by a Configuration class. All input components must have a dataset specified in their configuration, and every dataset must use a datastore.

  • Standalone components: Make a call to the service or run a query on the database. A standalone component is made of:

    • The execution logic of the component, represented by a DriverRunner class.

    • The layout of the component and the configuration that the end-user will need to provide when using the component, defined by a Configuration class. All input components must have a datastore or dataset specified in their configuration, and every dataset must use a datastore.

The following example shows the different classes of an input components in a multi-component development project:

Input

Creating your first component

This tutorial walks you through the most common iteration steps to create a component with Talend Component Kit and to deploy it to Talend Open Studio.

The component created in this tutorial is a simple processor that reads data coming from the previous component in a job or pipeline and displays it in the console logs of the application, along with an additional information entered by the final user.

The component designed in this tutorial is a processor and does not require nor show any datastore and dataset configuration. Datasets and datastores are required only for input and output components.
Job run

Prerequisites

To get your development environment ready and be able to follow this tutorial:

  • Download and install a Java JDK 1.8 or greater.

  • Download and install Talend Open Studio. For example, from Sourceforge.

  • Download and install IntelliJ.

  • Download the Talend Component Kit plugin for IntelliJ. The detailed installation steps for the plugin are available in this document.

Generate a component project

The first step in this tutorial is to generate a component skeleton using the Starter embedded in the Talend Component Kit plugin for IntelliJ.

  1. Start IntelliJ and create a new project. In the available options, you should see Talend Component.

    New project
  2. Make sure that a Project SDK is selected. Then, select Talend Component and click Next.
    The Talend Component Kit Starter opens.

  3. Enter the component and project metadata. Change the default values, for example as presented in the screenshot below:

    Project metadata
    • The Component Family and the Category will be used later in Talend Open Studio to find the new component.

    • Project metadata is mostly used to identify the project structure. A common practice is to replace 'company' in the default value by a value of your own, like your domain name.

  4. Once the metadata is filled, select Add a component. A new screen is displayed in the Talend Component Kit Starter that lets you define the generic configuration of the component. By default, new components are processors.

  5. Enter a valid Java name for the component. For example, Logger.

  6. Select Configuration Model and add a string type field named level. This input field will be used in the component configuration for final users to enter additional information to display in the logs.

    Configuration Model
  7. In the Input(s) / Output(s) section, click the default MAIN input branch to access its detail, and make sure that the record model is set to Generic. Leave the Name of the branch with its default MAIN value.

    Generic Input
  8. Repeat the same step for the default MAIN output branch.

    Because the component is a processor, it has an output branch by default. A processor without any output branch is considered an output component. You can create output components when the Activate IO option is selected.
  9. Click Next and check the name and location of the project, then click Finish to generate the project in the IDE.

At this point, your component is technically already ready to be compiled and deployed to Talend Open Studio. But first, take a look at the generated project:

Project view
  • Two classes based on the name and type of component defined in the Talend Component Kit Starter have been generated:

    • LoggerProcessor is where the component logic is defined

    • LoggerProcessorConfiguration is where the component layout and configurable fields are defined, including the level string field that was defined earlier in the configuration model of the component.

  • The package-info.java file contains the component metadata defined in the Talend Component Kit Starter, such as family and category.

  • You can notice as well that the elements in the tree structure are named after the project metadata defined in the Talend Component Kit Starter.

These files are the starting point if you later need to edit the configuration, logic, and metadata of the component.

There is more that you can do and configure with the Talend Component Kit Starter. This tutorial covers only the basics. You can find more information in this document.

Compile and deploy the component to Talend Open Studio

Without modifying the component code generated from the Starter, you can compile the project and deploy the component to a local instance of Talend Open Studio.

The logic of the component is not yet implemented at that stage. Only the configurable part specified in the Starter will be visible. This step is useful to confirm that the basic configuration of the component renders correctly.

Before starting to run any command, make sure that Talend Open Studio is not running.

  1. From the component project in IntelliJ, open a Terminal and make sure that the selected directory is the root of the project. All commands shown in this tutorial are performed from this location.

    Compile terminal
  2. Compile the project by running the following command: mvnw clean install.
    The mvnw command refers to the Maven wrapper that is embedded in Talend Component Kit. It allows to use the right version of Maven for your project without having to install it manually beforehand. An equivalent wrapper is available for Gradle.

  3. Once the command is executed and you see BUILD SUCCESS in the terminal, deploy the component to your local instance of Talend Open Studio using the following command:
    mvnw talend-component:deploy-in-studio -Dtalend.component.studioHome="<path to Talend Open Studio home>".

    Replace the path with your own value. If the path contains spaces (for example, Program Files), enclose it with double quotes.
  4. Make sure the build is successful.

    Build success
  5. Open Talend Open Studio and create a new Job:

    • Find the new component by looking for the family and category specified in the Talend Component Kit Starter. You can add it to your job and open its settings.

    • Notice that the level field specified in the configuration model of the component in the Talend Component Kit Starter is present.

      Component in Studio

At this point, the new component is available in Talend Open Studio, and its configurable part is already set. But the component logic is still to be defined.

Edit the component

You can now edit the component to implement its logic: reading the data coming through the input branch to display that data in the execution logs of the job. The value of the level field that final users can fill also needs to be changed to uppercase and displayed in the logs.

  1. Save the job created earlier and close Talend Open Studio.

  2. Go back to the component development project in IntelliJ and open the LoggerProcessor class. This is the class where the component logic can be defined.

  3. Look for the @ElementListener method. It is already present and references the default input branch that was defined in the Talend Component Kit Starter, but it is not complete yet.

  4. To be able to log the data in input to the console, add the following lines:

    //Log read input to the console with uppercase level.
            System.out.println("["+configuration.getLevel().toUpperCase()+"] "+defaultInput);

    The @ElementListener method now looks as follows:

    @ElementListener
        public void onNext(
                @Input final Record defaultInput) {
            //Reads the input.
    
            //Log read input to the console with uppercase level.
            System.out.println("["+configuration.getLevel().toUpperCase()+"] "+defaultInput);
        }
  1. Open a Terminal again to compile the project and deploy the component again. To do that, run successively the two following commands:

    • mvnw clean install

    • `mvnw talend-component:deploy-in-studio -Dtalend.component.studioHome="<path to Talend Open Studio home>"

The update of the component logic should now be deployed. After restarting Talend Open Studio, you will be ready to build a job and use the component for the first time.

To learn the different possibilities and methods available to develop more complex logics, refer to this document.

If you want to avoid having to close and re-open Talend Open Studio every time you need to make an edit, you can enable the developer mode, as explained in this document.

Build a job with the component

As the component is now ready to be used, it is time to create a job and check that it behaves as intended.

  1. Open Talend Open Studio again and go to the job created earlier. The new component is still there.

  2. Add a tRowGenerator component and connect it to the logger.

  3. Double-click the tRowGenerator to specify the data to generate:

    • Add a first column named firstName and select the TalendDataGenerator.getFirstName() function.

    • Add a second column named 'lastName' and select the TalendDataGenerator.getLastName() function.

    • Set the Number of Rows for RowGenerator to 10.

      tRowGenerator
  4. Validate the tRowGenerator configuration.

  5. Open the TutorialFamilyLogger component and set the level field to info.

    Logger
  6. Go to the Run tab of the job and run the job.
    The job is executed. You can observe in the console that each of the 10 generated rows is logged, and that the info value entered in the logger is also displayed with each record, in uppercase.

Job run

Record types

Components are designed to manipulate data (access, read, create). Talend Component Kit can handle several types of data, described in this document.

By design, the framework must run in DI (plain standalone Java program) and in Beam pipelines.
It is out of scope of the framework to handle the way the runtime serializes - if needed - the data.

For that reason, it is critical not to import serialization constraints to the stack. As an example, this is one of the reasons why Record or JsonObject were preferred to Avro IndexedRecord.

Any serialization concern should either be hidden in the framework runtime (outside of the component developer scope) or in the runtime integration with the framework (for example, Beam integration).

Record

Record is the default format. It offers many possibilities and can evolve depending on the Talend platform needs. Its structure is data-driven and exposes a schema that allows to browse it.

Projects generated from the Talend Component Kit Starter are by default designed to handle this format of data.

Record is a Java interface but never implement it yourself to ensure compatibility with the different Talend products. Follow the guidelines below.
Creating a record

You can build records using the newRecordBuilder method of the RecordBuilderFactory (see here).

For example:

public Record createRecord() {
    return factory.newRecordBuilder()
            .withString("name", "Gary")
            .withDateTime("date", ZonedDateTime.of(LocalDateTime.of(2011, 2, 6, 8, 0), ZoneId.of("UTC")))
            .build();
}

In the example above, the schema is dynamically computed from the data. You can also do it using a pre-built schema, as follows:

public Record createRecord() {
    return factory.newRecordBuilder(myAlreadyBuiltSchemaWithSchemaBuilder)
            .withString("name", "Gary")
            .withDateTime("date", ZonedDateTime.of(LocalDateTime.of(2011, 2, 6, 8, 0), ZoneId.of("UTC")))
            .build();
}

The example above uses a schema that was pre-built using factory.newSchemaBuilder(Schema.Type.RECORD).

When using a pre-built schema, the entries passed to the record builder are validated. It means that if you pass a null value null or an entry type that does not match the provided schema, the record creation fails. It also fails if you try to add an entry which does not exist or if you did not set a not nullable entry.

Using a dynamic schema can be useful on the backend but can lead users to more issues when creating a pipeline to process the data. Using a pre-built schema is more reliable for end-users.
Accessing and reading a record

You can access and read data by relying on the getSchema method, which provides you with the available entries (columns) of a record. The Entry exposes the type of its value, which lets you access the value through the corresponding method. For example, the Schema.Type.STRING type implies using the getString method of the record.

For example:

public void print(final Record record) {
    final Schema schema = record.getSchema();
    // log in the natural type
    schema.getEntries()
          .forEach(entry -> System.out.println(record.get(Object.class, entry.getName())));
    // log only strings
    schema.getEntries().stream()
          .filter(e -> e.getType() == Schema.Type.STRING)
          .forEach(entry -> System.out.println(record.getString(entry.getName())));
}
Supported data types

The Record format supports the following data types:

  • String

  • Boolean

  • Int

  • Long

  • Float

  • Double

  • DateTime

  • Array

  • Bytes

  • Record

A map can always be modelized as a list (array of records with key and value entries).

For example:

public Record create() {
       final Record address = factory.newRecordBuilder()
               .withString("street", "Prairie aux Ducs")
               .withString("city", "Nantes")
               .withString("country", "FRANCE")
               .build();
       return factory.newRecordBuilder()
                     .withBoolean("active", true)
                     .withInt("age", 33)
                     .withLong("duration", 123459)
                     .withFloat("tolerance", 1.1f)
                     .withDouble("balance", 12.58)
                     .withString("name", "John Doe")
                     .withDateTime("birth", ZonedDateTime.now())
                     .withRecord(
                             factory.newEntryBuilder()
                               .withName("address")
                               .withType(Schema.Type.RECORD)
                               .withComment("The user address")
                               .withElementSchema(address.getSchema())
                               .build(),
                             address)
                     .withArray(
                             factory.newEntryBuilder()
                                       .withName("permissions")
                                       .withType(Schema.Type.ARRAY)
                                       .withElementSchema(factory.newSchemaBuilder(Schema.Type.STRING).build())
                                       .build(),
                             asList("admin", "dev"))
                     .build();
   }
Example: discovering a schema

For example, you can use the API to provide the schema. The following method needs to be implemented in a service.

Manually constructing the schema without any data:

@DiscoverSchema
getSchema(@Option MyDataset dataset) {
    return factory.newSchemaBuilder(Schema.Type.RECORD)
            .withEntry(factory.newEntryBuilder().withName("id").withType(Schema.Type.LONG).build())
            .withEntry(factory.newEntryBuilder().withName("name").withType(Schema.Type.STRING).build())
            .build();
}

Returning the schema from an already built record:

@DiscoverSchema
public Schema guessSchema(@Option MyDataset dataset, final MyDataLoaderService myCustomService) {
   return myCustomService.loadFirstData().getRecord().getSchema();
}
MyDataset is the class that defines the dataset. Learn more about datasets and datastores in this document.
Authorized characters in entry names

Entry names for Record and JsonObject types must comply with the following rules:

  • The name must start with a letter or with _. If not, the invalid characters are ignored until the first valid character.

  • Following characters of the name must be a letter, a number, or . If not, the invalid character is replaced with .

For example:

  • 1foo becomes foo.

  • f@o becomes f_o.

  • 1234f5@o becomes ___f5_o.

  • foo123 stays foo123.

Data types in arrays

Each array uses only one schema for all of its elements. If an array contains several elements, they must be of the same data type.

For example, the following array is not correct as it contains a string and an object:

{"Value":[
  {"value":"v1"},
  {"value":[]}
  ]
}

JsonObject

The runtime also supports JsonObject as input and output component type. You can rely on the JSON services (Jsonb, JsonBuilderFactory) to create new instances.

This format is close to the Record format, except that it does not natively support the Datetime type and has a unique Number type to represent Int, Long, Float and Double types. It also does not provide entry metadata like nullable or comment, for example.

It also inherits the Record format limitations.

Pojo

The runtime also accepts any POJO as input and output component type. In this case, it uses JSON-B to treat it as a JsonObject.

Setting up your environment

Before being able to develop components using Talend Component Kit, you need the right system configuration and tools.

Although Talend Component Kit comes with some embedded tools, such as Maven and Gradle wrappers, you still need to prepare your system. A Talend Component Kit plugin for IntelliJ is also available and allows to design and generate your component project right from IntelliJ.

System prerequisites

In order to use Talend Component Kit, you need the following tools installed on your machine:

  • Java JDK 1.8.x. You can download it from Oracle website.

  • Talend Open Studio to integrate your components.

  • A Java Integrated Development Environment such as Eclipse or IntelliJ. IntelliJ is recommended as a Talend Component Kit plugin is available.

  • Optional: If you use IntelliJ, you can install the Talend Component Kit plugin for IntelliJ.

  • Optional: A build tool:

    • Apache Maven 3.5.4 is recommended to develop a component or the project itself. You can download it from Apache Maven website.

    • You can also use Gradle, but at the moment certain features are not supported, such as validations.

      It is optional to install a build tool independently since Maven and Gradle wrappers are already available with Talend Component Kit.

Installing the Talend Component Kit IntelliJ plugin

The Talend Component Kit IntelliJ plugin is a plugin for the IntelliJ Java IDE. It adds support for the Talend Component Kit project creation.

Main features:

  • Project generation support.

  • Internationalization completion for component configuration.

Installing the IntelliJ plugin

In the Intellij IDEA:

  1. Go to File > Settings…​

  2. On the left panel, select Plugins.

  3. Access the Marketplace tab.

  4. Enter Talend in the search field and Select Talend Component Kit.

  5. Select Install.

Browse talend plugin
  1. Click the Restart IDE button.

IDEA restart
  1. Confirm the IDEA restart to complete the installation.

IDEA restart

The plugin is now installed on your IntelliJ IDEA. You can start using it.

About the internationalization completion

The plugin offers auto-completion for the configuration internationalization. The Talend component configuration lets you setup translatable and user-friendly labels for your configuration using a property file. Auto-completion in possible for the configuration keys and default values in the property file.

For example, you can internationalize a simple configuration class for a basic authentication that you use in your component:

@Checkable("basicAuth")
@DataStore("basicAuth")
@GridLayout({
        @GridLayout.Row({ "url" }),
        @GridLayout.Row({ "username", "password" }),
})
public class BasicAuthConfig implements Serializable {

    @Option
    private String url;

    @Option
    private String username;

    @Option
    @Credential
    private String password;
}

This configuration class contains three properties which you can attach a user-friendly label to.

For example, you can define a label like My server URL for the url option:

  1. Locate or create a Messages.properties file in the project resources and add the label to that file. The plugin automatically detects your configuration and provides you with key completion in the property file.

  2. Press Ctrl+Space to see the key suggestions.

Keys suggestion

Generating a project

The first step when developing new components is to create a project that will contain the skeleton of your components and set you on the right track.

The project generation can be achieved using the Talend Component Kit Starter or the Talend Component Kit plugin for IntelliJ.

Through a user-friendly interface, you can define the main lines of your project and of your component(s), including their name, family, type, configuration model, and so on.

Once completed, all the information filled are used to generate a project that you will use as starting point to implement the logic and layout of your components, and to iterate on them.

Once your project is generated, you can start implementing the component logic.

Generating a project using the Component Kit Starter

The Component Kit Starter lets you design your components configuration and generates a ready-to-implement project structure.

The Starter is available on the web or as an IntelliJ plugin.

This tutorial shows you how to use the Component Kit Starter to generate new components for MySQL databases. Before starting, make sure that you have correctly setup your environment. See this section.

When defining a project using the Starter, do not refresh the page to avoid losing your configuration.

Configuring the project

Before being able to create components, you need to define the general settings of the project:

  1. Create a folder on your local machine to store the resource files of the component you want to create. For example, C:/my_components.

  2. Open the Starter in the web browser of your choice.

  3. Select your build tool. This tutorial uses Maven, but you can select Gradle instead.

  4. Add any facet you need. For example, add the Talend Component Kit Testing facet to your project to automatically generate unit tests for the components created in the project.

    Test facet
  5. Enter the Component Family of the components you want to develop in the project. This name must be a valid java name and is recommended to be capitalized, for example 'MySQL'.
    Once you have implemented your components in the Studio, this name is displayed in the Palette to group all of the MySQL-related components you develop, and is also part of your component name.

  6. Select the Category of the components you want to create in the current project. As MySQL is a kind of database, select Databases in this tutorial.
    This Databases category is used and displayed as the parent family of the MySQL group in the Palette of the Studio.

  7. Complete the project metadata by entering the Group, Artifact and Package.

  8. By default, you can only create processors. If you need to create Input or Output components, select Activate IO. By doing this:

    • Two new menu entries let you add datasets and datastores to your project, as they are required for input and output components.

      Input and Output components without dataset (itself containing a datastore) will not pass the validation step when building the components. Learn more about datasets and datastores in this document.
    • An Input component and an Output component are automatically added to your project and ready to be configured.

    • Components added to the project using Add A Component can now be processors, input or output components.

      Activate IO

Defining a Datastore

A datastore represents the data needed by an input or output component to connect to a database.

When building a component, the validateDataSet validation checks that each input or output (processor without output branch) component uses a dataset and that this dataset has a datastore.

You can define one or several datastores if you have selected the Activate IO step.

  1. Select Datastore. The list of datastores opens. By default, a datastore is already open but not configured. You can configure it or create a new one using Add new Datastore.

  2. Specify the name of the datastore. Modify the default value to a meaningful name for your project.
    This name must be a valid Java name as it will represent the datastore class in your project. It is a good practice to start it with an uppercase letter.

  3. Edit the datastore configuration. Parameter names must be valid Java names. Use lower case as much as possible. A typical configuration includes connection details to a database:

    • url

    • username

    • password.

  4. Save the datastore configuration.

Defining a Dataset

A dataset represents the data coming from or sent to a database and needed by input and output components to operate.

The validateDataSet validation checks that each input or output (processor without output branch) component uses a dataset and that this dataset has a datastore.

You can define one or several datasets if you have selected the Activate IO step.

  1. Select Dataset. The list of datasets opens. By default, a dataset is already open but not configured. You can configure it or create a new one using the Add new Dataset button.

  2. Specify the name of the dataset. Modify the default value to a meaningful name for your project.
    This name must be a valid Java name as it will represent the dataset class in your project. It is a good practice to start it with an uppercase letter.

  3. Edit the dataset configuration. Parameter names must be valid Java names. Use lower case as much as possible. A typical configuration includes details of the data to retrieve:

    • Datastore to use (that contains the connection details to the database)

    • table name

    • data

  4. Save the dataset configuration.

Creating an Input component

To create an input component, make sure you have selected Activate IO.

When clicking Add A Component in the Starter, a new step allows you to define a new component in your project.
The intent in this tutorial is to create an input component that connects to a MySQL database, executes a SQL query and gets the result.

Input configuration
  1. Choose the component type. Input in this case.

  2. Enter the component name. For example, MySQLInput.

  3. Click Configuration model. This button lets you specify the required configuration for the component. By default, a dataset is already specified.

  4. For each parameter that you need to add, click the (+) button on the right panel. Enter the parameter name and choose its type then click the tick button to save the changes.
    In this tutorial, to be able to execute a SQL query on the Input MySQL database, the configuration requires the following parameters:+

    • a dataset (which contains the datastore with the connection information)

    • a timeout parameter.

      Closing the configuration panel on the right does not delete your configuration. However, refreshing the page resets the configuration.
      Input configuration
  5. Specify whether the component issues a stream or not. In this tutorial, the MySQL input component created is an ordinary (non streaming) component. In this case, leave the Stream option disabled.

  6. Select the Record Type generated by the component. In this tutorial, select Generic because the component is designed to generate records in the default Record format.
    You can also select Custom to define a POJO that represents your records.

Your input component is now defined. You can add another component or generate and download your project.

Creating a Processor component

When clicking Add A Component in the Starter, a new step allows you to define a new component in your project. The intent in this tutorial is to create a simple processor component that receives a record, logs it and returns it at it is.

If you did not select Activate IO, all new components you add to the project are processors by default.
If you selected Activate IO, you can choose the component type. In this case, to create a Processor component, you have to manually add at least one output.
  1. If required, choose the component type: Processor in this case.

  2. Enter the component name. For example, RecordLogger, as the processor created in this tutorial logs the records.

  3. Specify the Configuration Model of the component. In this tutorial, the component doesn’t need any specific configuration. Skip this step.

  4. Define the Input(s) of the component. For each input that you need to define, click Add Input. In this tutorial, only one input is needed to receive the record to log.

  5. Click the input name to access its configuration. You can change the name of the input and define its structure using a POJO. If you added several inputs, repeat this step for each one of them.
    The input in this tutorial is a generic record. Enable the Generic option and click Save.

    Processor configuration
  6. Define the Output(s) of the component. For each output that you need to define, click Add Output. The first output must be named MAIN. In this tutorial, only one generic output is needed to return the received record.
    Outputs can be configured the same way as inputs (see previous steps).
    You can define a reject output connection by naming it REJECT. This naming is used by Talend applications to automatically set the connection type to Reject.

Your processor component is now defined. You can add another component or generate and download your project.

Creating an Output component

To create an output component, make sure you have selected Activate IO.

When clicking Add A Component in the Starter, a new step allows you to define a new component in your project.
The intent in this tutorial is to create an output component that receives a record and inserts it into a MySQL database table.

Output components are Processors without any output. In other words, the output is a processor that does not produce any records.
Output configuration
  1. Choose the component type. Output in this case.

  2. Enter the component name. For example, MySQLOutput.

  3. Click Configuration Model. This button lets you specify the required configuration for the component. By default, a dataset is already specified.

  4. For each parameter that you need to add, click the (+) button on the right panel. Enter the name and choose the type of the parameter, then click the tick button to save the changes.
    In this tutorial, to be able to insert a record in the output MySQL database, the configuration requires the following parameters:+

    • a dataset (which contains the datastore with the connection information)

    • a timeout parameter.

      Closing the configuration panel on the right does not delete your configuration. However, refreshing the page resets the configuration.
  5. Define the Input(s) of the component. For each input that you need to define, click Add Input. In this tutorial, only one input is needed.

  6. Click the input name to access its configuration. You can change the name of the input and define its structure using a POJO. If you added several inputs, repeat this step for each one of them.
    The input in this tutorial is a generic record. Enable the Generic option and click Save.

Do not create any output because the component does not produce any record. This is the only difference between an output an a processor component.

Your output component is now defined. You can add another component or generate and download your project.

Generating and downloading the final project

Once your project is configured and all the components you need are created, you can generate and download the final project. In this tutorial, the project was configured and three components of different types (input, processor and output) have been defined.

  1. Click Finish on the left panel. You are redirected to a page that summarizes the project. On the left panel, you can also see all the components that you added to the project.

    Output configuration
  2. Generate the project using one of the two options available:

    • Download it locally as a ZIP file using the Download as ZIP button.

    • Create a GitHub repository and push the project to it using the Create on Github button.

In this tutorial, the project is downloaded to the local machine as a ZIP file.

Compiling and exploring the generated project files

Once the package is available on your machine, you can compile it using the build tool selected when configuring the project.

  • In the tutorial, Maven is the build tool selected for the project.
    In the project directory, execute the mvn package command.
    If you don’t have Maven installed on your machine, you can use the Maven wrapper provided in the generated project, by executing the ./mvnw package command.

  • If you have created a Gradle project, you can compile it using the gradle build command or using the Gradle wrapper: ./gradlew build.

The generated project code contains documentation that can guide and help you implementing the component logic. Import the project to your favorite IDE to start the implementation.

Generating a project using an OpenAPI JSON descriptor

The Component Kit Starter allows you to generate a component development project from an OpenAPI JSON descriptor.

  1. Open the Starter in the web browser of your choice.

  2. Enable the OpenAPI mode using the toggle in the header.

    Open API toggle
  3. Go to the API menu.

  4. Paste the OpenAPI JSON descriptor in the right part of the screen. All the described endpoints are detected.

  5. Unselect the endpoints that you do not want to use in the future components. By default, all detected endpoints are selected.

    Open API menu
  6. Go to the Finish menu.

  7. Download the project.

When exploring the project generated from an OpenAPI descriptor, you can notice the following elements:

  • sources

  • the API dataset

  • an HTTP client for the API

  • a connection folder containing the component configuration. By default, the configuration is only made of a simple datastore with a baseUrl parameter.

Generating a project using IntelliJ plugin

Once the plugin installed, you can generate a component project.

  1. Select File > New > Project.

  2. In the New Project wizard, choose Talend Component and click Next.

    New Talend Project

    The plugin loads the component starter and lets you design your components. For more information about the Talend Component Kit starter, check this tutorial.

  1. Once your project is configured, select Next, then click Finish.

The project is automatically imported into the IDEA using the build tool that you have chosen.

Implementing components

Once you have generated a project, you can start implementing the logic and layout of your components and iterate on it. Depending on the type of component you want to create, the logic implementation can differ. However, the layout and component metadata are defined the same way for all types of components in your project. The main steps are:

Implementing component

In some cases, you will require specific implementations to handle more advanced cases, such as:

You can also make certain configurations reusable across your project by defining services. Using your Java IDE along with a build tool supported by the framework, you can then compile your components to test and deploy them to Talend Studio or other Talend applications:

In any case, follow these best practices to ensure the components you develop are optimized.

You can also learn more about component loading and plugins here:

Registering components

Before implementing a component logic and configuration, you need to specify the family and the category it belongs to, the component type and name, as well as its name and a few other generic parameters. This set of metadata, and more particularly the family, categories and component type, is mandatory to recognize and load the component to Talend Studio or Cloud applications.

Some of these parameters are handled at the project generation using the starter, but can still be accessed and updated later on.

Component family and categories

The family and category of a component is automatically written in the package-info.java file of the component package, using the @Components annotation. By default, these parameters are already configured in this file when you import your project in your IDE. Their value correspond to what was defined during the project definition with the starter.

Multiple components can share the same family and category value, but the family + name pair must be unique for the system.

A component can belong to one family only and to one or several categories. If not specified, the category defaults to Misc.

The package-info.java file also defines the component family icon, which is different from the component icon. You can learn how to customize this icon in this section.

Here is a sample package-info.java:

@Components(name = "my_component_family", categories = "My Category")
package org.talend.sdk.component.sample;

import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Components;

Another example with an existing component:

@Components(name = "Salesforce", categories = {"Business", "Cloud"})
package org.talend.sdk.component.sample;

import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Components;

Component icon and version

Components can require metadata to be integrated in Talend Studio or Cloud platforms. Metadata is set on the component class and belongs to the org.talend.sdk.component.api.component package.

When you generate your project and import it in your IDE, icon and version both come with a default value.

  • @Icon: Sets an icon key used to represent the component. You can use a custom key with the custom() method but the icon may not be rendered properly. The icon defaults to Check.
    Replace it with a custom icon, as described in this section.

  • @Version: Sets the component version. 1 by default.
    Learn how to manage different versions and migrations between your component versions in this section.

For example:

@Version(1)
@Icon(FILE_XML_O)
@PartitionMapper(name = "jaxbInput")
public class JaxbPartitionMapper implements Serializable {
    // ...
}
Defining a custom icon for a component or component family

Every component family and component needs to have a representative icon.
You have to define a custom icon as follows:

  • For the component family the icon is defined in the package-info.java file.

  • For the component itself, you need to declare the icon in the component class.

Custom icons must comply with the following requirements:

  • Icons must be stored in the src/main/resources/icons folder of the project.

  • Icon file names need to match one of the following patterns: IconName.svg or IconName_icon32.png. The latter will run in degraded mode in Talend Cloud. Replace IconName by the name of your choice.

  • The icon size for PNG must be 32x32. For SVG, the viewBox must be 16x16.

  • Icons must be squared, even for the SVG format.

@Icon(value = Icon.IconType.CUSTOM, custom = "IconName")

Note that SVG icons are not supported by Talend Studio and can cause the deployment of the component to fail.

If you aim at deploying a custom component to Talend Studio, specify PNG icons or use the Maven (or Gradle) svg2png plugin to convert SVG icons to PNG. If you want a finer control over both images, you can provide both in your component.

Ultimately, you can also remove SVG parameters from the talend.component.server.icon.paths property in the HTTP server configuration.

Component extra metadatas

For any purpose, you can also add user defined metadatas to your component with the @Metadatas annotation.

Example:

@Processor(name = "my_processor")
@Metadatas({
        @Metadata(key = "user::value0", value = "myValue0"),
        @Metadata(key = "user::value1", value = "myValue1")
})
public class MyProcessor {
}

You can also use a SPI implementing org.talend.sdk.component.spi.component.ComponentMetadataEnricher.

Defining datasets and datastores

Datasets and datastores are configuration types that define how and where to pull the data from. They are used at design time to create shared configurations that can be stored and used at runtime.

All connectors (input and output components) created using Talend Component Kit must reference a valid dataset. Each dataset must reference a datastore.

  • Datastore: The data you need to connect to the backend.

  • Dataset: A datastore coupled with the data you need to execute an action.

Dataset validation

Make sure that:

  • a datastore is used in each dataset.

  • each dataset has a corresponding input component (mapper or emitter).

  • This input component must be able to work with only the dataset part filled by final users. Any other property implemented for that component must be optional.

These rules are enforced by the validateDataSet validation. If the conditions are not met, the component builds will fail.

Defining a datastore

A datastore defines the information required to connect to a data source. For example, it can be made of:

  • a URL

  • a username

  • a password.

You can specify a datastore and its context of use (in which dataset, etc.) from the Component Kit Starter.

Make sure to modelize the data your components are designed to handle before defining datasets and datastores in the Component Kit Starter.

Once you generate and import the project into an IDE, you can find datastores under a specific datastore node.

Datastore view

Example of datastore:

package com.mycomponent.components.datastore;

@DataStore("DatastoreA") (1)
@GridLayout({ (2)
    // The generated component layout will display one configuration entry per line.
    // Customize it as much as needed.
    @GridLayout.Row({ "apiurl" }),
    @GridLayout.Row({ "username" }),
    @GridLayout.Row({ "password" })
})
@Documentation("A Datastore made of an API URL, a username, and a password. The password is marked as Credential.") (3)
public class DatastoreA implements Serializable {
    @Option
    @Documentation("")
    private String apiurl;

    @Option
    @Documentation("")
    private String username;

    @Option
    @Credential
    @Documentation("")
    private String password;

    public String getApiurl() {
        return apiurl;
    }

    public DatastoreA setApiurl(String apiurl) {
        this.apiurl = apiurl;
        return this;
    }

    public String getUsername() {
        return Username;
    }

    public DatastoreA setuUsername(String username) {
        this.username = username;
        return this;
    }

    public String getPassword() {
        return password;
    }

    public DatastoreA setPassword(String password) {
        this.password = password;
        return this;
    }
}
1 Identifying the class as a datastore and naming it.
2 Defining the layout of the datastore configuration.
3 Defining each element of the configuration: a URL, a username, and a password. Note that the password is also marked as a credential.

Defining a dataset

A dataset represents the inbound data. It is generally made of:

  • A datastore that defines the connection information needed to access the data.

  • A query.

You can specify a dataset and its context of use (in which input and output component it is used) from the Component Kit Starter.

Make sure to modelize the data your components are designed to handle before defining datasets and datastores in the Component Kit Starter.

Once you generate and import the project into an IDE, you can find datasets under a specific dataset node.

Dataset view

Example of dataset referencing the datastore shown above:

package com.datastorevalidation.components.dataset;

@DataSet("DatasetA") (1)
@GridLayout({
    // The generated component layout will display one configuration entry per line.
    // Customize it as much as needed.
    @GridLayout.Row({ "datastore" })
})
@Documentation("A Dataset configuration containing a simple datastore") (2)
public class DatasetA implements Serializable {
    @Option
    @Documentation("Datastore")
    private DatastoreA datastore;

    public DatastoreA getDatastore() {
        return datastore;
    }

    public DatasetA setDatastore(DatastoreA datastore) {
        this.datastore = datastore;
        return this;
    }
}
1 Identifying the class as a dataset and naming it.
2 Implementing the dataset and referencing DatastoreA as the datastore to use.

Internationalizing datasets and datastores

The display name of each dataset and datastore must be referenced in the message.properties file of the family package.

The key for dataset and datastore display names follows a defined pattern: ${family}.${configurationType}.${name}._displayName. For example:

ComponentFamily.dataset.DatasetA._displayName=Dataset A
ComponentFamily.datastore.DatastoreA._displayName=Datastore A

These keys are automatically added for datasets and datastores defined from the Component Kit Starter.

Reusing datasets and datastores in Talend Studio

When deploying a component or set of components that include datasets and datastores to Talend Studio, a new node is created under Metadata. This node has the name of the component family that was deployed.

It allows users to create reusable configurations for datastores and datasets.

Dataset in Studio

With predefined datasets and datastores, users can then quickly fill the component configuration in their jobs. They can do so by selecting Repository as Property Type and by browsing to the predefined dataset or datastore.

Dataset in Component

How to create a reusable connection in Studio

Studio will generate connection and close components auto for reusing connection function in input and output components, just need to do like this example:

@Service
public class SomeService {

    @CreateConnection
    public Object createConn(@Option("configuration") SomeDataStore dataStore) throws ComponentException {
        Object connection = null;
        //get conn object by dataStore
        return conn;
    }

    @CloseConnection
    public CloseConnectionObject closeConn() {
        return new CloseConnectionObject() {

            public boolean close() throws ComponentException {
                Object connection = this.getConnection();
                //do close action
                return true;
            }

        };
    }
}

Then the runtime mapper and processor only need to use @Connection to get the connection like this:

@Version(1)
@Icon(value = Icon.IconType.CUSTOM, custom = "SomeInput")
@PartitionMapper(name = "SomeInput")
@Documentation("the doc")
public class SomeInputMapper implements Serializable {

    @Connection
    SomeConnection conn;

}

How does the component server interact with datasets and datastores

The component server scans all configuration types and returns a configuration type index. This index can be used for the integration into the targeted platforms (Studio, web applications, and so on).

Dataset

Mark a model (complex object) as being a dataset.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.type.DataSet

  • Sample:

{
  "tcomp::configurationtype::name":"test",
  "tcomp::configurationtype::type":"dataset"
}
Datastore

Mark a model (complex object) as being a datastore (connection to a backend).

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.type.DataStore

  • Sample:

{
  "tcomp::configurationtype::name":"test",
  "tcomp::configurationtype::type":"datastore"
}
DatasetDiscovery

Mark a model (complex object) as being a dataset discovery configuration.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.type.DatasetDiscovery

  • Sample:

{
  "tcomp::configurationtype::name":"test",
  "tcomp::configurationtype::type":"datasetDiscovery"
}
The component family associated with a configuration type (datastore/dataset) is always the one related to the component using that configuration.

The configuration type index is represented as a flat tree that contains all the configuration types, which themselves are represented as nodes and indexed by ID.

Every node can point to other nodes. This relation is represented as an array of edges that provides the child IDs.

As an illustration, a configuration type index for the example above can be defined as follows:

{nodes: {
             "idForDstore": { datastore:"datastore data", edges:[id:"idForDset"] },
             "idForDset":   { dataset:"dataset data" }
    }
}

Defining an input component logic

Input components are the components generally placed at the beginning of a Talend job. They are in charge of retrieving the data that will later be processed in the job.

An input component is primarily made of three distinct logics:

  • The execution logic of the component itself, defined through a partition mapper.

  • The configurable part of the component, defined through the mapper configuration.

  • The source logic defined through a producer.

Before implementing the component logic and defining its layout and configurable fields, make sure you have specified its basic metadata, as detailed in this document.

Defining a partition mapper

What is a partition mapper

A Partition Mapper (PartitionMapper) is a component able to split itself to make the execution more efficient.

This concept is borrowed from big data and useful in this context only (BEAM executions). The idea is to divide the work before executing it in order to reduce the overall execution time.

The process is the following:

  1. The size of the data you work on is estimated. This part can be heuristic and not very precise.

  2. From that size, the execution engine (runner for Beam) requests the mapper to split itself in N mappers with a subset of the overall work.

  3. The leaf (final) mapper is used as a Producer (actual reader) factory.

This kind of component must be Serializable to be distributable.
Implementing a partition mapper

A partition mapper requires three methods marked with specific annotations:

  1. @Assessor for the evaluating method

  2. @Split for the dividing method

  3. @Emitter for the Producer factory

@Assessor

The Assessor method returns the estimated size of the data related to the component (depending its configuration). It must return a Number and must not take any parameter.

For example:

@Assessor
public long estimateDataSetByteSize() {
    return ....;
}
@Split

The Split method returns a collection of partition mappers and can take optionally a @PartitionSize long value as parameter, which is the requested size of the dataset per sub partition mapper.

For example:

@Split
public List<MyMapper> split(@PartitionSize final long desiredSize) {
    return ....;
}
@Emitter

The Emitter method must not have any parameter and must return a producer. It uses the partition mapper configuration to instantiate and configure the producer.

For example:

@Emitter
public MyProducer create() {
    return ....;
}

Defining the producer method

The Producer defines the source logic of an input component. It handles the interaction with a physical source and produces input data for the processing flow.

A producer must have a @Producer method without any parameter. It is triggered by the @Emitter method of the partition mapper and can return any data. It is defined in the <component_name>Source.java file:

@Producer
public MyData produces() {
    return ...;
}

Defining a processor or an output component logic

Processors and output components are the components in charge of reading, processing and transforming data in a Talend job, as well as passing it to its required destination.

Before implementing the component logic and defining its layout and configurable fields, make sure you have specified its basic metadata, as detailed in this document.

Defining a processor

What is a processor

A Processor is a component that converts incoming data to a different model.

A processor must have a method decorated with @ElementListener taking an incoming data and returning the processed data:

@ElementListener
public MyNewData map(final MyData data) {
    return ...;
}

Processors must be Serializable because they are distributed components.

If you just need to access data on a map-based ruleset, you can use Record or JsonObject as parameter type.
From there, Talend Component Kit wraps the data to allow you to access it as a map. The parameter type is not enforced.
This means that if you know you will get a SuperCustomDto, then you can use it as parameter type. But for generic components that are reusable in any chain, it is highly encouraged to use Record until you have an evaluation language-based processor that has its own way to access components.

For example:

@ElementListener
public MyNewData map(final Record incomingData) {
    String name = incomingData.getString("name");
    int name = incomingData.getInt("age");
    return ...;
}

// equivalent to (using POJO subclassing)

public class Person {
    private String age;
    private int age;

    // getters/setters
}

@ElementListener
public MyNewData map(final Person person) {
    String name = person.getName();
    int age = person.getAge();
    return ...;
}

A processor also supports @BeforeGroup and @AfterGroup methods, which must not have any parameter and return void values. Any other result would be ignored. These methods are used by the runtime to mark a chunk of the data in a way which is estimated good for the execution flow size.

Because the size is estimated, the size of a group can vary. It is even possible to have groups of size 1.

It is recommended to batch records, for performance reasons:

@BeforeGroup
public void initBatch() {
    // ...
}

@AfterGroup
public void endBatch() {
    // ...
}

You can optimize the data batch processing by using the maxBatchSize parameter. This parameter is automatically implemented on the component when it is deployed to a Talend application. Only the logic needs to be implemented. You can however customize its value setting in your LocalConfiguration the property _maxBatchSize.value - for the family - or ${component simple class name}._maxBatchSize.value - for a particular component, otherwise its default will be 1000. If you replace value by active, you can also configure if this feature is enabled or not. This is useful when you don’t want to use it at all. Learn how to implement chunking/bulking in this document.

Defining output connections

In some cases, you may need to split the output of a processor in two or more connections. A common example is to have "main" and "reject" output connections where part of the incoming data are passed to a specific bucket and processed later.

Talend Component Kit supports two types of output connections: Flow and Reject.

  • Flow is the main and standard output connection.

  • The Reject connection handles records rejected during the processing. A component can only have one reject connection, if any. Its name must be REJECT to be processed correctly in Talend applications.

You can also define the different output connections of your component in the Starter.

To define an output connection, you can use @Output as replacement of the returned value in the @ElementListener:

@ElementListener
public void map(final MyData data, @Output final OutputEmitter<MyNewData> output) {
    output.emit(createNewData(data));
}

Alternatively, you can pass a string that represents the new branch:

@ElementListener
public void map(final MyData data,
                @Output final OutputEmitter<MyNewData> main,
                @Output("REJECT") final OutputEmitter<MyNewDataWithError> rejected) {
    if (isRejected(data)) {
        rejected.emit(createNewData(data));
    } else {
        main.emit(createNewData(data));
    }
}

// or

@ElementListener
public MyNewData map(final MyData data,
                    @Output("REJECT") final OutputEmitter<MyNewDataWithError> rejected) {
    if (isSuspicious(data)) {
        rejected.emit(createNewData(data));
        return createNewData(data); // in this case the processing continues but notifies another channel
    }
    return createNewData(data);
}
Defining multiple inputs

Having multiple inputs is similar to having multiple outputs, except that an OutputEmitter wrapper is not needed:

@ElementListener
public MyNewData map(@Input final MyData data, @Input("input2") final MyData2 data2) {
    return createNewData(data1, data2);
}

@Input takes the input name as parameter. If no name is set, it defaults to the "main (default)" input branch. It is recommended to use the default branch when possible and to avoid naming branches according to the component semantic.

Implementing batch processing
What is batch processing

Batch processing refers to the way execution environments process batches of data handled by a component using a grouping mechanism.

By default, the execution environment of a component automatically decides how to process groups of records and estimates an optimal group size depending on the system capacity. With this default behavior, the size of each group could sometimes be optimized for the system to handle the load more effectively or to match business requirements.

For example, real-time or near real-time processing needs often imply processing smaller batches of data, but more often. On the other hand, a one-time processing without business contraints is more effectively handled with a batch size based on the system capacity.

Final users of a component developed with the Talend Component Kit that integrates the batch processing logic described in this document can override this automatic size. To do that, a maxBatchSize option is available in the component settings and allows to set the maximum size of each group of data to process.

A component processes batch data as follows:

  • Case 1 - No maxBatchSize is specified in the component configuration. The execution environment estimates a group size of 4. Records are processed by groups of 4.

  • Case 2 - The runtime estimates a group size of 4 but a maxBatchSize of 3 is specified in the component configuration. The system adapts the group size to 3. Records are processed by groups of 3.

Processing schema (values are examples):

Batch processing

Batch processing implementation logic

Batch processing relies on the sequence of three methods: @BeforeGroup, @ElementListener, @AfterGroup, that you can customize to your needs as a component Developer.

The group size automatic estimation logic is automatically implemented when a component is deployed to a Talend application.

Each group is processed as follows until there is no record left:

  1. The @BeforeGroup method resets a record buffer at the beginning of each group.

  2. The records of the group are assessed one by one and placed in the buffer as follows: The @ElementListener method tests if the buffer size is greater or equal to the defined maxBatchSize. If it is, the records are processed. If not, then the current record is buffered.

  3. The previous step happens for all records of the group. Then the @AfterGroup method tests if the buffer is empty.

Group execution detail (values are examples):

Group batch processing

You can define the following logic in the processor configuration:

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;

import javax.json.JsonObject;

import org.talend.sdk.component.api.processor.AfterGroup;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.processor.BeforeGroup;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.processor.ElementListener;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.processor.Processor;

@Processor(name = "BulkOutputDemo")
public class BulkProcessor implements Serializable {
    private Collection<JsonObject> buffer;

    @BeforeGroup
    public void begin() {
        buffer = new ArrayList<>();
    }

    @ElementListener
    public void bufferize(final JsonObject object) {
        buffer.add(object);
    }

    @AfterGroup
    public void commit() {
        // saves buffered records at once (bulk)
    }
}

You can also use the condensed syntax for this kind of processor:

@Processor(name = "BulkOutputDemo")
public class BulkProcessor implements Serializable {

    @AfterGroup
    public void commit(final Collection<Record> records) {
        // saves records
    }
}
When writing tests for components, you can force the maxBatchSize parameter value by setting it with the following syntax: <configuration prefix>.$maxBatchSize=10.

You can learn more about processors in this document.

Shortcut syntax for bulk output processors

For the case of output components (not emitting any data) using bulking you can pass the list of records to the after group method:

@Processor(name = "DocOutput")
public class DocOutput implements Serializable {

    @AfterGroup
    public void onCommit(final Collection<Record> records) {
        // save records
    }
}

Defining an output

What is an output

An Output is a Processor that does not return any data.

Conceptually, an output is a data listener. It matches the concept of processor. Being the last component of the execution chain or returning no data makes your processor an output component:

@ElementListener
public void store(final MyData data) {
    // ...
}

Defining a combiner

What is a combiner

Currently, Talend Component Kit does not allow you to define a Combiner. A combiner is the symmetric part of a partition mapper. It allows to aggregate results in a single partition.

Defining a standalone component logic

Standalone components are the components without input or output flows. They are designed to do actions without reading or processing any data. For example standalone components can be used to create indexes in databases.

Before implementing the component logic and defining its layout and configurable fields, make sure you have specified its basic metadata, as detailed in this document.

Defining a driver runner

What is a driver runner

A Driver Runner (DriverRunner) is a standalone component which doesn’t process or return any data.

A Driver runner must have a @RunAtDriver method without any parameter.

@RunAtDriver
public void run() {
    ...;
}

Defining component layout and configuration

The component configuration is defined in the <component_name>Configuration.java file of the package. It consists in defining the configurable part of the component that will be displayed in the UI.

To do that, you can specify parameters. When you import the project in your IDE, the parameters that you have specified in the starter are already present.

All input and output components must reference a dataset in their configuration. Refer to Defining datasets and datastores.

Parameter name

Components are configured using their constructor parameters. All parameters can be marked with the @Option property, which lets you give a name to them.

For the name to be correct, you must follow these guidelines:

  • Use a valid Java name.

  • Do not include any . character in it.

  • Do not start the name with a $.

  • Defining a name is optional. If you don’t set a specific name, it defaults to the bytecode name. This can require you to compile with a -parameter flag to avoid ending up with names such as arg0, arg1, and so on.

Examples of option name:

Option name Valid

myName

my_name

my.name

$myName

Parameter types

Parameter types can be primitives or complex objects with fields decorated with @Option exactly like method parameters.

It is recommended to use simple models which can be serialized in order to ease serialized component implementations.

For example:

class FileFormat implements Serializable {
    @Option("type")
    private FileType type = FileType.CSV;

    @Option("max-records")
    private int maxRecords = 1024;
}

@PartitionMapper(name = "file-reader")
public MyFileReader(@Option("file-path") final File file,
                    @Option("file-format") final FileFormat format) {
    // ...
}

Using this kind of API makes the configuration extensible and component-oriented, which allows you to define all you need.

The instantiation of the parameters is done from the properties passed to the component.

Primitives

A primitive is a class which can be directly converted from a String to the expected type.

It includes all Java primitives, like the String type itself, but also all types with a org.apache.xbean.propertyeditor.Converter:

  • BigDecimal

  • BigInteger

  • File

  • InetAddress

  • ObjectName

  • URI

  • URL

  • Pattern

  • LocalDateTime

  • ZonedDateTime

Mapping complex objects

The conversion from property to object uses the Dot notation.

For example, assuming the method parameter was configured with @Option("file"):

file.path = /home/user/input.csv
file.format = CSV

matches

public class FileOptions {
    @Option("path")
    private File path;

    @Option("format")
    private Format format;
}
List case

Lists rely on an indexed syntax to define their elements.

For example, assuming that the list parameter is named files and that the elements are of the  FileOptions type, you can define a list of two elements as follows:

files[0].path = /home/user/input1.csv
files[0].format = CSV
files[1].path = /home/user/input2.xml
files[1].format = EXCEL
if you desire to override a config to truncate an array, use the index length, for example to truncate previous example to only CSV, you can set:
files[length] = 1
Map case

Similarly to the list case, the map uses .key[index] and .value[index] to represent its keys and values:

// Map<String, FileOptions>
files.key[0] = first-file
files.value[0].path = /home/user/input1.csv
files.value[0].type = CSV
files.key[1] = second-file
files.value[1].path = /home/user/input2.xml
files.value[1].type = EXCEL
// Map<FileOptions, String>
files.key[0].path = /home/user/input1.csv
files.key[0].type = CSV
files.value[0] = first-file
files.key[1].path = /home/user/input2.xml
files.key[1].type = EXCEL
files.value[1] = second-file
Avoid using the Map type. Instead, prefer configuring your component with an object if this is possible.

Defining Constraints and validations on the configuration

You can use metadata to specify that a field is required or has a minimum size, and so on. This is done using the validation metadata in the org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.constraint package:

MaxLength

Ensure the decorated option size is validated with a higher bound.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.constraint.Max

  • Name: maxLength

  • Parameter Type: double

  • Supported Types: — java.lang.CharSequence

  • Sample:

{
  "validation::maxLength":"12.34"
}
MinLength

Ensure the decorated option size is validated with a lower bound.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.constraint.Min

  • Name: minLength

  • Parameter Type: double

  • Supported Types: — java.lang.CharSequence

  • Sample:

{
  "validation::minLength":"12.34"
}
Pattern

Validate the decorated string with a javascript pattern (even into the Studio).

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.constraint.Pattern

  • Name: pattern

  • Parameter Type: java.lang.string

  • Supported Types: — java.lang.CharSequence

  • Sample:

{
  "validation::pattern":"test"
}
Max

Ensure the decorated option size is validated with a higher bound.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.constraint.Max

  • Name: max

  • Parameter Type: double

  • Supported Types: — java.lang.Number — int — short — byte — long — double — float

  • Sample:

{
  "validation::max":"12.34"
}
Min

Ensure the decorated option size is validated with a lower bound.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.constraint.Min

  • Name: min

  • Parameter Type: double

  • Supported Types: — java.lang.Number — int — short — byte — long — double — float

  • Sample:

{
  "validation::min":"12.34"
}
Required

Mark the field as being mandatory.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.constraint.Required

  • Name: required

  • Parameter Type: -

  • Supported Types: — java.lang.Object

  • Sample:

{
  "validation::required":"true"
}
MaxItems

Ensure the decorated option size is validated with a higher bound.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.constraint.Max

  • Name: maxItems

  • Parameter Type: double

  • Supported Types: — java.util.Collection

  • Sample:

{
  "validation::maxItems":"12.34"
}
MinItems

Ensure the decorated option size is validated with a lower bound.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.constraint.Min

  • Name: minItems

  • Parameter Type: double

  • Supported Types: — java.util.Collection

  • Sample:

{
  "validation::minItems":"12.34"
}
UniqueItems

Ensure the elements of the collection must be distinct (kind of set).

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.constraint.Uniques

  • Name: uniqueItems

  • Parameter Type: -

  • Supported Types: — java.util.Collection

  • Sample:

{
  "validation::uniqueItems":"true"
}
When using the programmatic API, metadata is prefixed by tcomp::. This prefix is stripped in the web for convenience, and the table above uses the web keys.

Also note that these validations are executed before the runtime is started (when loading the component instance) and that the execution will fail if they don’t pass. If it breaks your application, you can disable that validation on the JVM by setting the system property talend.component.configuration.validation.skip to true.

Defining datasets and datastores

Datasets and datastores are configuration types that define how and where to pull the data from. They are used at design time to create shared configurations that can be stored and used at runtime.

All connectors (input and output components) created using Talend Component Kit must reference a valid dataset. Each dataset must reference a datastore.

  • Datastore: The data you need to connect to the backend.

  • Dataset: A datastore coupled with the data you need to execute an action.

Dataset validation

Make sure that:

  • a datastore is used in each dataset.

  • each dataset has a corresponding input component (mapper or emitter).

  • This input component must be able to work with only the dataset part filled by final users. Any other property implemented for that component must be optional.

These rules are enforced by the validateDataSet validation. If the conditions are not met, the component builds will fail.

Defining a datastore

A datastore defines the information required to connect to a data source. For example, it can be made of:

  • a URL

  • a username

  • a password.

You can specify a datastore and its context of use (in which dataset, etc.) from the Component Kit Starter.

Make sure to modelize the data your components are designed to handle before defining datasets and datastores in the Component Kit Starter.

Once you generate and import the project into an IDE, you can find datastores under a specific datastore node.

Datastore view

Example of datastore:

package com.mycomponent.components.datastore;

@DataStore("DatastoreA") (1)
@GridLayout({ (2)
    // The generated component layout will display one configuration entry per line.
    // Customize it as much as needed.
    @GridLayout.Row({ "apiurl" }),
    @GridLayout.Row({ "username" }),
    @GridLayout.Row({ "password" })
})
@Documentation("A Datastore made of an API URL, a username, and a password. The password is marked as Credential.") (3)
public class DatastoreA implements Serializable {
    @Option
    @Documentation("")
    private String apiurl;

    @Option
    @Documentation("")
    private String username;

    @Option
    @Credential
    @Documentation("")
    private String password;

    public String getApiurl() {
        return apiurl;
    }

    public DatastoreA setApiurl(String apiurl) {
        this.apiurl = apiurl;
        return this;
    }

    public String getUsername() {
        return Username;
    }

    public DatastoreA setuUsername(String username) {
        this.username = username;
        return this;
    }

    public String getPassword() {
        return password;
    }

    public DatastoreA setPassword(String password) {
        this.password = password;
        return this;
    }
}
1 Identifying the class as a datastore and naming it.
2 Defining the layout of the datastore configuration.
3 Defining each element of the configuration: a URL, a username, and a password. Note that the password is also marked as a credential.
Defining a dataset

A dataset represents the inbound data. It is generally made of:

  • A datastore that defines the connection information needed to access the data.

  • A query.

You can specify a dataset and its context of use (in which input and output component it is used) from the Component Kit Starter.

Make sure to modelize the data your components are designed to handle before defining datasets and datastores in the Component Kit Starter.

Once you generate and import the project into an IDE, you can find datasets under a specific dataset node.

Dataset view

Example of dataset referencing the datastore shown above:

package com.datastorevalidation.components.dataset;

@DataSet("DatasetA") (1)
@GridLayout({
    // The generated component layout will display one configuration entry per line.
    // Customize it as much as needed.
    @GridLayout.Row({ "datastore" })
})
@Documentation("A Dataset configuration containing a simple datastore") (2)
public class DatasetA implements Serializable {
    @Option
    @Documentation("Datastore")
    private DatastoreA datastore;

    public DatastoreA getDatastore() {
        return datastore;
    }

    public DatasetA setDatastore(DatastoreA datastore) {
        this.datastore = datastore;
        return this;
    }
}
1 Identifying the class as a dataset and naming it.
2 Implementing the dataset and referencing DatastoreA as the datastore to use.
Internationalizing datasets and datastores

The display name of each dataset and datastore must be referenced in the message.properties file of the family package.

The key for dataset and datastore display names follows a defined pattern: ${family}.${configurationType}.${name}._displayName. For example:

ComponentFamily.dataset.DatasetA._displayName=Dataset A
ComponentFamily.datastore.DatastoreA._displayName=Datastore A

These keys are automatically added for datasets and datastores defined from the Component Kit Starter.

Reusing datasets and datastores in Talend Studio

When deploying a component or set of components that include datasets and datastores to Talend Studio, a new node is created under Metadata. This node has the name of the component family that was deployed.

It allows users to create reusable configurations for datastores and datasets.

Dataset in Studio

With predefined datasets and datastores, users can then quickly fill the component configuration in their jobs. They can do so by selecting Repository as Property Type and by browsing to the predefined dataset or datastore.

Dataset in Component
How to create a reusable connection in Studio

Studio will generate connection and close components auto for reusing connection function in input and output components, just need to do like this example:

@Service
public class SomeService {

    @CreateConnection
    public Object createConn(@Option("configuration") SomeDataStore dataStore) throws ComponentException {
        Object connection = null;
        //get conn object by dataStore
        return conn;
    }

    @CloseConnection
    public CloseConnectionObject closeConn() {
        return new CloseConnectionObject() {

            public boolean close() throws ComponentException {
                Object connection = this.getConnection();
                //do close action
                return true;
            }

        };
    }
}

Then the runtime mapper and processor only need to use @Connection to get the connection like this:

@Version(1)
@Icon(value = Icon.IconType.CUSTOM, custom = "SomeInput")
@PartitionMapper(name = "SomeInput")
@Documentation("the doc")
public class SomeInputMapper implements Serializable {

    @Connection
    SomeConnection conn;

}
How does the component server interact with datasets and datastores

The component server scans all configuration types and returns a configuration type index. This index can be used for the integration into the targeted platforms (Studio, web applications, and so on).

Dataset

Mark a model (complex object) as being a dataset.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.type.DataSet

  • Sample:

{
  "tcomp::configurationtype::name":"test",
  "tcomp::configurationtype::type":"dataset"
}
Datastore

Mark a model (complex object) as being a datastore (connection to a backend).

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.type.DataStore

  • Sample:

{
  "tcomp::configurationtype::name":"test",
  "tcomp::configurationtype::type":"datastore"
}
DatasetDiscovery

Mark a model (complex object) as being a dataset discovery configuration.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.type.DatasetDiscovery

  • Sample:

{
  "tcomp::configurationtype::name":"test",
  "tcomp::configurationtype::type":"datasetDiscovery"
}
The component family associated with a configuration type (datastore/dataset) is always the one related to the component using that configuration.

The configuration type index is represented as a flat tree that contains all the configuration types, which themselves are represented as nodes and indexed by ID.

Every node can point to other nodes. This relation is represented as an array of edges that provides the child IDs.

As an illustration, a configuration type index for the example above can be defined as follows:

{nodes: {
             "idForDstore": { datastore:"datastore data", edges:[id:"idForDset"] },
             "idForDset":   { dataset:"dataset data" }
    }
}

If you need to define a binding between properties, you can use a set of annotations:

ActiveIf

If the evaluation of the element at the location matches value then the element is considered active, otherwise it is deactivated.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.condition.ActiveIf

  • Type: if

  • Sample:

{
  "condition::if::evaluationStrategy":"DEFAULT",
  "condition::if::negate":"false",
  "condition::if::target":"test",
  "condition::if::value":"value1,value2"
}
ActiveIfs

Allows to set multiple visibility conditions on the same property.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.condition.ActiveIfs

  • Type: ifs

  • Sample:

{
  "condition::if::evaluationStrategy::0":"DEFAULT",
  "condition::if::evaluationStrategy::1":"LENGTH",
  "condition::if::negate::0":"false",
  "condition::if::negate::1":"true",
  "condition::if::target::0":"sibling1",
  "condition::if::target::1":"../../other",
  "condition::if::value::0":"value1,value2",
  "condition::if::value::1":"SELECTED",
  "condition::ifs::operator":"AND"
}

Where:

  • target is the element to evaluate.

  • value is the value to compare against.

  • strategy (optional) is the evaluation criteria. Possible values are:

    • CONTAINS: Checks if a string or list of strings contains the defined value.

    • DEFAULT: Compares against the raw value.

    • LENGTH: For an array or string, evaluates the size of the value instead of the value itself.

  • negate (optional) defines if the test must be positive (default, set to false) or negative (set to true).

  • operator (optional) is the comparison operator used to combine several conditions, if applicable. Possible values are AND and OR.

The target element location is specified as a relative path to the current location, using Unix path characters. The configuration class delimiter is /.
The parent configuration class is specified by ...
Thus, ../targetProperty denotes a property, which is located in the parent configuration class and is named targetProperty.

When using the programmatic API, metadata is prefixed with tcomp::. This prefix is stripped in the web for convenience, and the previous table uses the web keys.

For more details, refer to the related Javadocs.

ActiveIf examples
Example 1

A common use of the ActiveIf condition consists in testing if a target property has a value. To do that, it is possible to test if the length of the property value is different from 0:

  • target: foo - the path to the property to evaluate.

  • strategy: LENGTH - the strategy consists here in testing the length of the property value.

  • value: 0 - the length of the property value is compared to 0.

  • negate: true - setting negate to true means that the strategy of the target must be different from the value defined. In this case, the LENGTH of the value of the foo property must be different from 0.

{
  "condition::if::target": "foo",
  "condition::if::value": "0",
  "condition::if::negate": "true",
  "condition::if::evaluationStrategy": "LENGTH",
}
Example 2

The following example shows how to implement visibility conditions on several fields based on several checkbox configurations:

  • If the first checkbox is selected, an additional input field is displayed.

  • if the second or the third checkbox is selected, an additional input field is displayed.

  • if both second and third checkboxes are selected, an additional input field is displayed.

@GridLayout({
    // the generated layout put one configuration entry per line,
    // customize it as much as needed
    @GridLayout.Row({ "checkbox1" }),
    @GridLayout.Row({ "checkbox2" }),
    @GridLayout.Row({ "checkbox3" }),
    @GridLayout.Row({ "configuration4" }),
    @GridLayout.Row({ "configuration5" }),
    @GridLayout.Row({ "configuration6" })
})
@Documentation("A sample configuration with different visibility condition cases")
public class ActiveifProcessorProcessorConfiguration implements Serializable {
    @Option
    @Documentation("")
    private boolean checkbox1;

    @Option
    @Documentation("")
    private boolean checkbox2;

    @Option
    @Documentation("")
    private boolean checkbox3;

    @Option
    @ActiveIf(target = "checkbox1", value = "true")
    @Documentation("Active if checkbox1 is selected")
    private String configuration4;

    @Option
    @ActiveIfs(operator = ActiveIfs.Operator.OR, value = {
            @ActiveIf(target = "checkbox2", value = "true"),
            @ActiveIf(target = "checkbox3", value = "true")
    })
    @Documentation("Active if checkbox2 or checkbox 3 are selected")
    private String configuration5;

    @Option
    @ActiveIfs(operator = ActiveIfs.Operator.AND, value = {
            @ActiveIf(target = "checkbox2", value = "true"),
            @ActiveIf(target = "checkbox3", value = "true")
    })
    @Documentation("Active if checkbox2 and checkbox 3 are selected")
    private String configuration6;
  }

Adding hints about the rendering

In some cases, you may need to add metadata about the configuration to let the UI render that configuration properly.
For example, a password value that must be hidden and not a simple clear input box. For these cases - if you want to change the UI rendering - you can use a particular set of annotations:

@DefaultValue

Provide a default value the UI can use - only for primitive fields.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.DefaultValue

Snippets
{
  "ui::defaultvalue::value":"test"
}
@OptionsOrder

Allows to sort a class properties.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.OptionsOrder

Snippets
{
  "ui::optionsorder::value":"value1,value2"
}
@AutoLayout

Request the rendered to do what it thinks is best.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.layout.AutoLayout

Snippets
{
  "ui::autolayout":"true"
}
@GridLayout

Advanced layout to place properties by row, this is exclusive with @OptionsOrder.

the logic to handle forms (gridlayout names) is to use the only layout if there is only one defined, else to check if there are Main and Advanced and if at least Main exists, use them, else use all available layouts.
  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.layout.GridLayout

Snippets
{
  "ui::gridlayout::value1::value":"first|second,third",
  "ui::gridlayout::value2::value":"first|second,third"
}
@GridLayouts

Allow to configure multiple grid layouts on the same class, qualified with a classifier (name)

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.layout.GridLayouts

Snippets
{
  "ui::gridlayout::Advanced::value":"another",
  "ui::gridlayout::Main::value":"first|second,third"
}
@HorizontalLayout

Put on a configuration class it notifies the UI an horizontal layout is preferred.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.layout.HorizontalLayout

Snippets
{
  "ui::horizontallayout":"true"
}
@VerticalLayout

Put on a configuration class it notifies the UI a vertical layout is preferred.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.layout.VerticalLayout

Snippets
{
  "ui::verticallayout":"true"
}
@BasedOnSchema

Mark a table column filled by component’s schema auto. Only for studio.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.widget.BasedOnSchema

Snippets
{
  "ui::basedonschema":"true"
}
@Code

Mark a field as being represented by some code widget (vs textarea for instance).

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.widget.Code

Snippets
{
  "ui::code::value":"test"
}
@Credential

Mark a field as being a credential. It is typically used to hide the value in the UI.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.widget.Credential

Snippets
{
  "ui::credential":"true"
}
@DateTime

Mark a field as being a date. It supports and is implicit - which means you don’t need to put that annotation on the option - for java.time.ZonedDateTime, java.time.LocalDate and java.time.LocalDateTime and is unspecified for other types.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.widget.DateTime

Snippets
{
  "ui::datetime":"time",
  "ui::datetime::useSeconds":"false"
}
{
  "ui::datetime":"date",
  "ui::datetime::dateFormat":"test"
}
{
  "ui::datetime":"datetime",
  "ui::datetime::dateFormat":"test",
  "ui::datetime::useSeconds":"false",
  "ui::datetime::useUTC":"false"
}
{
  "ui::datetime":"zoneddatetime",
  "ui::datetime::dateFormat":"test",
  "ui::datetime::useSeconds":"false",
  "ui::datetime::useUTC":"false"
}
@ModuleList

Mark a string field as being represented by selected module list widget, only for studio

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.widget.ModuleList

Snippets
{
  "ui::modulelist":"true"
}
@Path

Mark a option as being represented by file or directory widget. Only for studio.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.widget.Path

Snippets
{
  "ui::path::value":"null"
}
@ReadOnly

Mark a option as being read-only widget. User cannot modify widget.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.widget.ReadOnly

Snippets
{
  "ui::readonly":"true"
}
@Structure

Mark a List<String> or List<Object> field as being represented as the component data selector.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.widget.Structure

Snippets
{
  "ui::structure::discoverSchema":"test",
  "ui::structure::type":"IN",
  "ui::structure::value":"test"
}
@TextArea

Mark a field as being represented by a textarea(multiline text input).

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.widget.TextArea

Snippets
{
  "ui::textarea":"true"
}
When using the programmatic API, metadata is prefixed with tcomp::. This prefix is stripped in the web for convenience, and the previous table uses the web keys.

You can also check this example about masking credentials.

Target support should cover org.talend.core.model.process.EParameterFieldType but you need to ensure that the web renderer is able to handle the same widgets.

Implementation samples

You can find sample working components for each of the configuration cases below:

  • ActiveIf: Add visibility conditions on some configurations.

  • Checkbox: Add checkboxes or toggles to your component.

  • Code: Allow users to enter their own code.

  • Credential: Mark a configuration as sensitive data to avoid displaying it as plain text.

  • Datastore: Add a button allowing to check the connection to a datastore.

  • Datalist: Two ways of implementing a dropdown list with predefined choices.

  • Integer: Add numeric fields to your component configuration.

  • Min/Max: Specify a minimum or a maximum value for a numeric configuration.

  • Multiselect: Add a list and allow users to select multiple elements of that list.

  • Pattern: Enforce rules based on a specific a pattern to prevent users from entering invalid values.

  • Required: Make a configuration mandatory.

  • Suggestions: Suggest possible values in a field based on what the users are entering.

  • Table: Add a table to your component configuration.

  • Textarea: Add a text area for configurations expecting long texts or values.

  • Input: Add a simple text input field to the component configuration

  • Update: Provide a button allowing to fill a part of the component configuration based on a service.

  • Validation: Specify constraints to make sure that a URL is well formed.

Component execution logic

Each type of component has its own execution logic. The same basic logic is applied to all components of the same type, and is then extended to implement each component specificities. The project generated from the starter already contains the basic logic for each component.

Talend Component Kit framework relies on several primitive components.

All components can use @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy annotations to initialize or release some underlying resource at the beginning and the end of a processing.

In distributed environments, class constructor are called on cluster manager nodes. Methods annotated with @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy are called on worker nodes. Thus, partition plan computation and pipeline tasks are performed on different nodes.

Deployment diagram

1 The created task is a JAR file containing class information, which describes the pipeline (flow) that should be processed in cluster.
2 During the partition plan computation step, the pipeline is analyzed and split into stages. The cluster manager node instantiates mappers/processors, gets estimated data size using mappers, and splits created mappers according to the estimated data size.
All instances are then serialized and sent to the worker node.
3 Serialized instances are received and deserialized. Methods annotated with @PostConstruct are called. After that, pipeline execution starts. The @BeforeGroup annotated method of the processor is called before processing the first element in chunk.
After processing the number of records estimated as chunk size, the @AfterGroup annotated method of the processor is called. Chunk size is calculated depending on the environment the pipeline is processed by. Once the pipeline is processed, methods annotated with @PreDestroy are called.
All the methods managed by the framework must be public. Private methods are ignored.

Driver processing workflow

Worker processing workflow

The framework is designed to be as declarative as possible but also to stay extensible by not using fixed interfaces or method signatures. This allows to incrementally add new features of the underlying implementations.

Internationalizing components

In common cases, you can store messages using a properties file in your component module to use internationalization.

This properties file must be stored in the same package as the related components and named Messages. For example, org.talend.demo.MyComponent uses org.talend.demo.Messages[locale].properties.

This file already exists when you import a project generated from the starter.

Default components keys

Out of the box components are internationalized using the same location logic for the resource bundle. The supported keys are:

Name Pattern Description

${family}._displayName

Display name of the family

${family}.${category}._category

Display name of the category ${category} in the family ${family}.

${family}.${configurationType}.${name}._displayName

Display name of a configuration type (dataStore or dataSet). Important: this key is read from the family package (not the class package), to unify the localization of the metadata.

${family}.actions.${actionType}.${actionName}._displayName

Display name of an action of the family. Specifying it is optional and will default on the action name if not set.

${family}.${component_name}._displayName

Display name of the component (used by the GUIs)

${property_path}._displayName

Display name of the option.

${property_path}._documentation

Equivalent to @Documentation("…​") but supporting internationalization (see Maven/Gradle documentation goal/task).

${property_path}._placeholder

Placeholder of the option.

${simple_class_name}.${property_name}._displayName

Display name of the option using its class name.

${simple_class_name}.${property_name}._documentation

See ${property_path}._documentation.

${simple_class_name}.${property_name}._placeholder

See ${property_path}._placeholder.

${enum_simple_class_name}.${enum_name}._displayName

Display name of the enum_name value of the enum_simple_class_name enumeration.

${property_path or simple_class_name}._gridlayout.${layout_name}._displayName

Display name of tab corresponding to the layout (tab). Note that this requires the server talend.component.server.gridlayout.translation.support option to be set to true and it is not yet supported by the Studio.

Example of configuration for a component named list and belonging to the memory family (@Emitter(family = "memory", name = "list")):

memory.list._displayName = Memory List

Internationalizing a configuration class

Configuration classes can be translated using the simple class name in the messages properties file. This is useful in case of common configurations shared by multiple components.

For example, if you have a configuration class as follows :

public class MyConfig {

    @Option
    private String host;

    @Option
    private int port;
}

You can give it a translatable display name by adding ${simple_class_name}.${property_name}._displayName to Messages.properties under the same package as the configuration class.

MyConfig.host._displayName = Server Host Name
MyConfig.host._placeholder = Enter Server Host Name...

MyConfig.port._displayName = Server Port
MyConfig.port._placeholder = Enter Server Port...
If you have a display name using the property path, it overrides the display name defined using the simple class name. This rule also applies to placeholders.

Managing component versions and migration

If some changes impact the configuration, they can be managed through a migration handler at the component level (enabling trans-model migration support).

The @Version annotation supports a migrationHandler method which migrates the incoming configuration to the current model.

For example, if the filepath configuration entry from v1 changed to location in v2, you can remap the value in your MigrationHandler implementation.

A best practice is to split migrations into services that you can inject in the migration handler (through constructor) rather than managing all migrations directly in the handler. For example:

// full component code structure skipped for brievity, kept only migration part
@Version(value = 3, migrationHandler = MyComponent.Migrations.class)
public class MyComponent {
    // the component code...


    private interface VersionConfigurationHandler {
        Map<String, String> migrate(Map<String, String> incomingData);
    }

    public static class Migrations {
        private final List<VersionConfigurationHandler> handlers;

        // VersionConfigurationHandler implementations are decorated with @Service
        public Migrations(final List<VersionConfigurationHandler> migrations) {
            this.handlers = migrations;
            this.handlers.sort(/*some custom logic*/);
        }

        @Override
        public Map<String, String> migrate(int incomingVersion, Map<String, String> incomingData) {
            Map<String, String> out = incomingData;
            for (MigrationHandler handler : handlers) {
                out = handler.migrate(out);
            }
        }
    }
}

What is important to notice in this snippet is the fact that you can organize your migrations the way that best fits your component.

If you need to apply migrations in a specific order, make sure that they are sorted.

Consider this API as a migration callback rather than a migration API.
Adjust the migration code structure you need behind the MigrationHandler, based on your component requirements, using service injection.

Difference between migrating a component configuration and a nested configuration

A nested configuration always migrates itself with any root prefix, whereas a component configuration always roots the full configuration.
For example, if your model is the following:

@Version
// ...
public class MyComponent implements Serializable {
  public MyComponent(@Option("configuration") final MyConfig config) {
    // ...
  }

  // ...
}

@DataStore
public class MyConfig implements Serializable {
  @Option
  private MyDataStore datastore;
}

@Version
@DataStore
public class MyDataStore implements Serializable {
  @Option
  private String url;
}

Then the component will see the path configuration.datastore.url for the datastore url whereas the datastore will see the path url for the same property. You can see it as configuration types - @DataStore, @DataSet - being configured with an empty root path.

Implementing batch processing

What is batch processing

Batch processing refers to the way execution environments process batches of data handled by a component using a grouping mechanism.

By default, the execution environment of a component automatically decides how to process groups of records and estimates an optimal group size depending on the system capacity. With this default behavior, the size of each group could sometimes be optimized for the system to handle the load more effectively or to match business requirements.

For example, real-time or near real-time processing needs often imply processing smaller batches of data, but more often. On the other hand, a one-time processing without business contraints is more effectively handled with a batch size based on the system capacity.

Final users of a component developed with the Talend Component Kit that integrates the batch processing logic described in this document can override this automatic size. To do that, a maxBatchSize option is available in the component settings and allows to set the maximum size of each group of data to process.

A component processes batch data as follows:

  • Case 1 - No maxBatchSize is specified in the component configuration. The execution environment estimates a group size of 4. Records are processed by groups of 4.

  • Case 2 - The runtime estimates a group size of 4 but a maxBatchSize of 3 is specified in the component configuration. The system adapts the group size to 3. Records are processed by groups of 3.

Processing schema (values are examples):

Batch processing

Batch processing implementation logic

Batch processing relies on the sequence of three methods: @BeforeGroup, @ElementListener, @AfterGroup, that you can customize to your needs as a component Developer.

The group size automatic estimation logic is automatically implemented when a component is deployed to a Talend application.

Each group is processed as follows until there is no record left:

  1. The @BeforeGroup method resets a record buffer at the beginning of each group.

  2. The records of the group are assessed one by one and placed in the buffer as follows: The @ElementListener method tests if the buffer size is greater or equal to the defined maxBatchSize. If it is, the records are processed. If not, then the current record is buffered.

  3. The previous step happens for all records of the group. Then the @AfterGroup method tests if the buffer is empty.

Group execution detail (values are examples):

Group batch processing

You can define the following logic in the processor configuration:

import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Collection;

import javax.json.JsonObject;

import org.talend.sdk.component.api.processor.AfterGroup;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.processor.BeforeGroup;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.processor.ElementListener;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.processor.Processor;

@Processor(name = "BulkOutputDemo")
public class BulkProcessor implements Serializable {
    private Collection<JsonObject> buffer;

    @BeforeGroup
    public void begin() {
        buffer = new ArrayList<>();
    }

    @ElementListener
    public void bufferize(final JsonObject object) {
        buffer.add(object);
    }

    @AfterGroup
    public void commit() {
        // saves buffered records at once (bulk)
    }
}

You can also use the condensed syntax for this kind of processor:

@Processor(name = "BulkOutputDemo")
public class BulkProcessor implements Serializable {

    @AfterGroup
    public void commit(final Collection<Record> records) {
        // saves records
    }
}
When writing tests for components, you can force the maxBatchSize parameter value by setting it with the following syntax: <configuration prefix>.$maxBatchSize=10.

You can learn more about processors in this document.

Implementing streaming on a component

By default, input components are designed to receive a one-time batch of data to process. By enabling the streaming mode, you can instead set your component to process a continuous incoming flow of data.

When streaming is enabled on an input component, the component tries to pull data from its producer. When no data is pulled, it waits for a defined period of time before trying to pull data again, and so on. This period of time between tries is defined by a strategy.

This document explains how to configure this strategy and the cases where it can fit your needs.

Choosing between batch and streaming

Before enabling streaming on your component, make sure that it fits the scope and requirements of your project and that regular batch processing cannot be used instead.

Streaming is designed to help you dealing with real-time or near real-time data processing cases, and should be used only for such cases. Enabling streaming will impact the performance when processing batches of data.

Enabling streaming from the Component Kit starter

You can enable streaming right from the design phase of the project by enabling the Stream toggle in the basic configuration of your future component in the Component Kit Starter.

Doing so adds a default streaming-ready configuration to your component when generating the project.
This default configuration implements a constant pause duration of 500 ms between retries, with no limit of retries.

Stream Toggle

Enabling limitations (stop conditions) for Streaming components

Without any configuration, streaming components have an infinite lifecycle and will never stop. Sometimes, you may need to stop component after a certain amount of records read or time elapsed.

You can add configuration that helps you to stop the data reading in your input component when it reaches required limitations. To enable it you need to set true in PartitionMapper#stoppable. An important condition is that PartitionMapper#infinite should also be true.

Here’s a sample code:

@PartitionMapper(name = "Input",
                 infinite = true, (1)
                 stoppable = true) (2)
public class YourPartitionMapper {
  ...
}
1 Define your component as a streaming component.
2 Define that your component may be stopped under conditions.

There are two reading stop conditions (can be combined):

  • maxDurationMs : stop after n milliseconds elapsed.

  • maxRecords : stop after n records read.

See next subsections for configuring those values.

If you choose to use a stoppable streaming component, you will have certainly to adapt your code according the backend technology and how to read values. For instance, if in your component you read 100 values at once and the maxRecords value is 50, you may lose 50 values (if the 100 values were acknowledged).

In that case, to build a correct strategy in your component, you can access to stop condition values. To access these informations use the @PostConstruct method with @Option annotation in your Emitter class.

Available options:

  • Option.MAX_DURATION_PARAMETER : reflects the maxDurationMs parameter.

  • Option.MAX_RECORDS_PARAMETER : reflects the maxRecords parameter.

Here a code sample:

@Version
@PartitionMapper(name = "Input", infinite = true, stoppable = true)
public class YourPartitionMapper {
    // partition mapper code

    @Emitter
    public YourEmitter createWorker() {
        return new YourEmitter(configuration);
    }
}

public class YourEmitter {

    @PostConstruct
    public void init(@Option(Option.MAX_DURATION_PARAMETER) long maxDurationMs, @Option(Option.MAX_RECORDS_PARAMETER) long maxRecords ) {
    	// connector's specific logic here
    }
    // other component's code
}
Configuring streaming stop strategy during job design time

If your streaming connector (infinite=true) is defined with the stoppable=true, you will have a design time UI for specifying stop strategy:

  • Cloud

Stream Toggle

  • Studio

Stream Toggle

By default, in the setting those values are set to -1. It means infinity behavior.

Other ways for configuring streaming stop strategy

At runtime, you can set system properties to apply the strategy. You need to prefix properties with the component’s family.

  • <family>.talend.input.streaming.maxRecords

  • <family>.talend.input.streaming.maxDurationMs

You can also use the LocalConfiguration (see next section) with the following properties:

  • talend.input.streaming.maxRecords

  • talend.input.streaming.maxDurationMs

Configuring streaming from the project

If streaming was not enabled at all during the project generation or if you need to implement a more specific configuration, you can change the default settings according to your needs:

  1. Add the infinite=true parameter to your component class.

  2. Define the number of retries allowed in the component family LocalConfiguration, using the talend.input.streaming.retry.maxRetries parameter. It is set by default to Integer.MAX_VALUE.

  3. Define the pausing strategy between retries in the component family LocalConfiguration, using the talend.input.streaming.retry.strategy parameter. Possible values are:

    • constant (default). It sets a constant pause duration between retries.

    • exponential. It sets an exponential backoff pause duration.

      See the tables below for more details about each strategy.
Constant strategy
Parameter Description Default value

talend.input.streaming.retry.constant.timeout

Pause duration for the constant strategy, in ms.

500

Exponential strategy
Parameter Description Default value

talend.input.streaming.retry.exponential.exponent

Exponent of the exponential calculation.

1.5

talend.input.streaming.retry.exponential.randomizationFactor

Randomization factor used in the calculation.

0.5

talend.input.streaming.retry.exponential.maxDuration

Maximum pausing duration between two retries.

5*60*1000 (5 minutes)

talend.input.streaming.retry.exponential.initialBackOff

Initial backoff value.

1000 (1 second)

The values of these parameters are then used in the following calculations to determine the exact pausing duration between two retries.

For more clarity in the formulas below, parameter names have been replaced with variables.

First, the current interval duration is calculated:

\$A = min(B xx E^I, F)\$

Where:

  • A: currentIntervalMillis

  • B: initialBackOff

  • E: exponent

  • I: current number of retries

  • F: maxDuration

Then, from the current interval duration, the next interval duration is calculated:

\$D = min(F, A + ((R xx 2-1) xx C xx A))\$

Where:

  • D: nextBackoffMillis

  • F: maxDuration

  • A: currentIntervalMillis

  • R: random

  • C: randomizationFactor

Building components with Maven

To develop new components, Talend Component Kit requires a build tool in which you will import the component project generated from the starter.

You will then be able to install and deploy it to Talend applications. A Talend Component Kit plugin is available for each of the supported build tools.

talend-component-maven-plugin helps you write components that match best practices and generate transparently metadata used by Talend Studio.

You can use it as follows:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
  <artifactId>talend-component-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>${component.version}</version>
</plugin>

This plugin is also an extension so you can declare it in your build/extensions block as:

<extension>
  <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
  <artifactId>talend-component-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>${component.version}</version>
</extension>

Used as an extension, the goals detailed in this document will be set up.

Maven lifecycle

The Talend Component Kit plugin integrates some specific goals within Maven build lifecycle. For example, to compile the project and prepare for deploying your component, run mvn clean install. Using this command, the following goals are executed:

Maven clean install

The build is split into several phases. The different goals are executed in the order shown above. Talend Component Kit uses default goals from the Maven build lifecycle and adds additional goals to the building and packaging phases.

Goals added to the build by Talend Component Kit are detailed below. The default lifecycle is detailed in Maven documentation.

Talend Component Kit Maven goals

The Talend Component Kit plugin for Maven integrates several specific goals into Maven build lifecycle.

To run specific goals individually, run the following command from the root of the project, by adapting it with each goal name, parameters and values:

$ mvn talend-component:<name_of_the_goal>[:<execution id>] -D<param_user_property>=<param_value>
Dependencies

The first goal is a shortcut for the maven-dependency-plugin. It creates the TALEND-INF/dependencies.txt file with the compile and runtime dependencies, allowing the component to use it at runtime:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
  <artifactId>talend-component-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>${component.version}</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>talend-dependencies</id>
      <goals>
        <goal>dependencies</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>
Scan

The scan-descriptor goal scans the current module and optionally other configured folders to precompute the list of interesting classes for the framework (components, services). It allows to save some bootstrap time when launching a job, which can be useful in some execution cases:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
  <artifactId>talend-component-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>${component.version}</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>talend-scan-descriptor</id>
      <goals>
        <goal>scan-descriptor</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

Configuration - excluding parameters used by default only:

Name Description User property Default

output

Where to dump the scan result. Note: It is not supported to change that value in the runtime.

talend.scan.output

${project.build.outputDirectory}/TALEND-INF/scanning.properties

scannedDirectories

Explicit list of directories to scan.

talend.scan.scannedDirectories

If not set, defaults to ${project.build.outputDirectory}

scannedDependencies

Explicit list of dependencies to scan - set them in the groupId:artifactId format. The list is appended to the file to scan.

talend.scan.scannedDependencies

-

SVG2PNG

The svg2png goal scans a directory - default to target/classes/icons - to find .svg files and copy them in a PNG version size at 32x32px and named with the suffix _icon32.png to enable the studio to read it:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
  <artifactId>talend-component-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>${component.version}</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>talend-svg2png</id>
      <goals>
        <goal>svg2png</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

Configuration:

Name Description User property Default

icons

Where to scan for the SVG icons to convert in PNG.

talend.icons.source

${project.build.outputDirectory}/icons

workarounds

By default the shape of the icon will be enforce in the RGB channels (in white) using the alpha as reference. This is useful for black/white images using alpha to shape the picture because Eclipse - Talend Studio - caches icons using RGB but not alpha channel, pictures not using alpha channel to draw their shape should disable that workaround.

talend.icons.workaround

true

if you use that plugin, ensure to set it before the validate mojo otherwise validation can miss some png files.
Validating the component programming model

This goal helps you validate the common programming model of the component. To activate it, you can use following execution definition:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
  <artifactId>talend-component-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>${component.version}</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>talend-component-validate</id>
      <goals>
        <goal>validate</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

It is bound to the process-classes phase by default. When executed, it performs several validations that can be disabled by setting the corresponding flags to false in the <configuration> block of the execution:

Name Description User property Default

validateInternationalization

Validates that resource bundles are presents and contain commonly used keys (for example, _displayName)

talend.validation.internationalization

true

validateModel

Ensures that components pass validations of the ComponentManager and Talend Component runtime

talend.validation.model

true

validateSerializable

Ensures that components are Serializable. This is a sanity check, the component is not actually serialized here. If you have a doubt, make sure to test it. It also checks that any @Internationalized class is valid and has its keys.

talend.validation.serializable

true

validateMetadata

Ensures that components have an @Icon and a @Version defined.

talend.validation.metadata

true

validateDataStore

Ensures that any @DataStore defines a @HealthCheck and has a unique name.

talend.validation.datastore

true

validateDataSet

Ensures that any @DataSet has a unique name. Also ensures that there is a source instantiable just filling the dataset properties (all others not being required). Finally, the validation checks that each input or output component uses a dataset and that this dataset has a datastore.

talend.validation.dataset

true

validateComponent

Ensures that the native programming model is respected. You can disable it when using another programming model like Beam.

talend.validation.component

true

validateActions

Validates action signatures for actions not tolerating dynamic binding (@HealthCheck, @DynamicValues, and so on). It is recommended to keep it set to true.

talend.validation.action

true

validateFamily

Validates the family by verifying that the package containing the @Components has a @Icon property defined.

talend.validation.family

true

validateDocumentation

Ensures that all components and @Option properties have a documentation using the @Documentation property.

talend.validation.documentation

true

validateLayout

Ensures that the layout is referencing existing options and properties.

talend.validation.layout

true

validateOptionNames

Ensures that the option names are compliant with the framework. It is highly recommended and safer to keep it set to true.

talend.validation.options

true

validateLocalConfiguration

Ensures that if any TALEND-INF/local-configuration.properties exists then keys start with the family name.

talend.validation.localConfiguration

true

validateOutputConnection

Ensures that an output has only one input branch.

talend.validation.validateOutputConnection

true

validatePlaceholder

Ensures that string options have a placeholder. It is highly recommended to turn this property on.

talend.validation.placeholder

false

locale

The locale used to validate internationalization.

talend.validation.locale

root

Generating the component documentation

The asciidoc goal generates an Asciidoc file documenting your component from the configuration model (@Option) and the @Documentation property that you can add to options and to the component itself.

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
  <artifactId>talend-component-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>${component.version}</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>talend-component-documentation</id>
      <goals>
        <goal>asciidoc</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>
Name Description User property Default

level

Level of the root title.

talend.documentation.level

2 (==)

output

Output folder path. It is recommended to keep it to the default value.

talend.documentation.output

${classes}/TALEND-INF/documentation.adoc

formats

Map of the renderings to do. Keys are the format (pdf or html) and values the output paths.

talend.documentation.formats

-

attributes

Asciidoctor attributes to use for the rendering when formats is set.

talend.documentation.attributes

-

templateEngine

Template engine configuration for the rendering.

talend.documentation.templateEngine

-

templateDir

Template directory for the rendering.

talend.documentation.templateDir

-

title

Document title.

talend.documentation.title

${project.name}

version

The component version. It defaults to the pom version

talend.documentation.version

${project.version}

workDir

The template directory for the Asciidoctor rendering - if 'formats' is set.

talend.documentation.workdDir

${project.build.directory}/talend-component/workdir

attachDocumentations

Allows to attach (and deploy) the documentations (.adoc, and formats keys) to the project.

talend.documentation.attach

true

htmlAndPdf

If you use the plugin as an extension, you can add this property and set it to true in your project to automatically get HTML and PDF renderings of the documentation.

talend.documentation.htmlAndPdf

false

Rendering your documentation

To render the generated documentation in HTML or PDF, you can use the Asciidoctor Maven plugin (or Gradle equivalent). You can configure both executions if you want both HTML and PDF renderings.

Make sure to execute the rendering after the documentation generation.

HTML rendering

If you prefer a HTML rendering, you can configure the following execution in the asciidoctor plugin. The example below:

  1. Generates the components documentation in target/classes/TALEND-INF/documentation.adoc.

  2. Renders the documentation as an HTML file stored in target/documentation/documentation.html.

<plugin> (1)
  <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
  <artifactId>talend-component-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>${talend-component-kit.version}</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>documentation</id>
      <phase>prepare-package</phase>
      <goals>
        <goal>asciidoc</goal>
      </goals>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>
<plugin> (2)
  <groupId>org.asciidoctor</groupId>
  <artifactId>asciidoctor-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>1.5.7</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>doc-html</id>
      <phase>prepare-package</phase>
      <goals>
        <goal>process-asciidoc</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
        <sourceDirectory>${project.build.outputDirectory}/TALEND-INF</sourceDirectory>
        <sourceDocumentName>documentation.adoc</sourceDocumentName>
        <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/documentation</outputDirectory>
        <backend>html5</backend>
      </configuration>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>
PDF rendering

If you prefer a PDF rendering, you can configure the following execution in the asciidoctor plugin:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.asciidoctor</groupId>
  <artifactId>asciidoctor-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>1.5.7</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>doc-html</id>
      <phase>prepare-package</phase>
      <goals>
        <goal>process-asciidoc</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
        <sourceDirectory>${project.build.outputDirectory}/TALEND-INF</sourceDirectory>
        <sourceDocumentName>documentation.adoc</sourceDocumentName>
        <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/documentation</outputDirectory>
        <backend>pdf</backend>
      </configuration>
    </execution>
  </executions>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.asciidoctor</groupId>
      <artifactId>asciidoctorj-pdf</artifactId>
      <version>1.5.0-alpha.16</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</plugin>
Including the documentation into a document

If you want to add some more content or a title, you can include the generated document into another document using Asciidoc include directive.

For example:

= Super Components
Super Writer
:toc:
:toclevels: 3
:source-highlighter: prettify
:numbered:
:icons: font
:hide-uri-scheme:
:imagesdir: images

include::{generated_doc}/documentation.adoc[]

To be able to do that, you need to pass the generated_doc attribute to the plugin. For example:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.asciidoctor</groupId>
  <artifactId>asciidoctor-maven-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>1.5.7</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>doc-html</id>
      <phase>prepare-package</phase>
      <goals>
        <goal>process-asciidoc</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
        <sourceDirectory>${project.basedir}/src/main/asciidoc</sourceDirectory>
        <sourceDocumentName>my-main-doc.adoc</sourceDocumentName>
        <outputDirectory>${project.build.directory}/documentation</outputDirectory>
        <backend>html5</backend>
        <attributes>
          <generated_adoc>${project.build.outputDirectory}/TALEND-INF</generated_adoc>
        </attributes>
      </configuration>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

This is optional but allows to reuse Maven placeholders to pass paths, which can be convenient in an automated build.

You can find more customization options on Asciidoctor website.

Testing a component web rendering

Testing the rendering of your component configuration into the Studio requires deploying the component in Talend Studio. Refer to the Studio documentation.

In the case where you need to deploy your component into a Cloud (web) environment, you can test its web rendering by using the web goal of the plugin:

  1. Run the mvn talend-component:web command.

  2. Open the following URL in a web browser: localhost:8080.

  3. Select the component form you want to see from the treeview on the left. The selected form is displayed on the right.

Two parameters are available with the plugin:

  • serverPort, which allows to change the default port (8080) of the embedded server. Its associated user property is talend.web.port.

  • serverArguments, that you can use to pass Meecrowave options to the server. Learn more about that configuration at openwebbeans.apache.org/meecrowave/meecrowave-core/cli.html.

Make sure to install the artifact before using this command because it reads the component JAR from the local Maven repository.

Finally, you can switch the lang of the component UI (documentation, form) using language query parameter in the webapp. For instance localhost:8080?language=fr.

Changing the UI bundle

If you built a custom UI (JS + CSS) bundle and want to test it in the web application, you can configure it in the pom.xml file as follows:

<configuration>
  <uiConfiguration>
    <jsLocation>https://cdn.talend.com/myapp.min.js</jsLocation>
    <cssLocation>https://cdn.talend.com/myapp.min.css</cssLocation>
  </uiConfiguration>
</configuration>
This is an advanced feature designed for expert users. Use it with caution.
Generating the component archive

Component ARchive (.car) is the way to bundle a component to share it in the Talend ecosystem. It is an executable Java ARchive (.jar) containing a metadata file and a nested Maven repository containing the component and its dependencies.

mvn talend-component:car

This command creates a .car file in your build directory. This file can be shared on Talend platforms.

This command has some optional parameters:

Name Description User property Default

attach

Specifies whether the component archive should be attached.

talend.car.attach

true

classifier

The classifier to use if attach is set to true.

talend.car.classifier

component

metadata

Additional custom metadata to bundle in the component archive.

-

-

output

Specifies the output path and name of the archive

talend.car.output

${project.build.directory}/${project.build.finalName}.car

packaging

Specifies the packaging

-

${project.packaging}

type

Specifies the type: `connector' or server `extension'

talend.car.type

connector

This CAR is executable and exposes the studio-deploy command which takes a Talend Studio home path as parameter. When executed, it installs the dependencies into the Studio and registers the component in your instance. For example:

# for a studio
java -jar mycomponent.car studio-deploy /path/to/my/studio
or
java -jar mycomponent.car studio-deploy --location /path/to/my/studio

# for a m2 provisioning
java -jar mycomponent.car maven-deploy /path/to/.m2/repository
or
java -jar mycomponent.car maven-deploy --location /path/to/.m2/repository

You can also upload the dependencies to your Nexus server using the following command:

java -jar mycomponent.car deploy-to-nexus --url <nexus url> --repo <repository name> --user <username> --pass <password> --threads <parallel threads number> --dir <temp directory>

In this command, Nexus URL and repository name are mandatory arguments. All other arguments are optional. If arguments contain spaces or special symbols, you need to quote the whole value of the argument. For example:

--pass "Y0u will \ not G4iess i' ^"
Deploying to the Studio

The deploy-in-studio goal deploys the current component module into a local Talend Studio instance.

Table 1. Parameters
Name Description User property Default

studioHome

Path to the Studio home directory

talend.component.studioHome

-

studioM2

Path to the Studio maven repository if not the default one

talend.component.studioM2

-

You can use the following command from the root folder of your project:

$ mvn talend-component:deploy-in-studio -Dtalend.component.studioHome="<studio_path>"
Help

The help goal displays help information on talend-component-maven-plugin. Call mvn talend-component:help -Ddetail=true -Dgoal=<goal-name> to display the parameter details of a specific goal.

Table 2. Parameters
Name Description User property Default

detail

Displays all settable properties for each goal.

detail

false

goal

The name of the goal for which to show help. If unspecified, all goals are displayed.

goal

-

indentSize

Number of spaces per indentation level. This integer should be positive.

indentSize

2

lineLength

Maximum length of a display line. This integer should be positive.

lineLength

80

Building components with Gradle

To develop new components, Talend Component Kit requires a build tool in which you will import the component project generated from the starter. With this build tool, you will also be able to implement the logic of your component and to install and deploy it to Talend applications. A Talend Component Kit plugin is available for each of the supported build tools.

gradle-talend-component helps you write components that match the best practices. It is inspired from the Maven plugin and adds the ability to generate automatically the dependencies.txt file used by the SDK to build the component classpath. For more information on the configuration, refer to the Maven properties matching the attributes.

By default, Gradle does not log information messages. To see messages, use --info in your commands. Refer to Gradle’s documentation to learn about log levels.

You can use it as follows:

buildscript {
  repositories {
    mavenLocal()
    mavenCentral()
  }
  dependencies {
    classpath "org.talend.sdk.component:gradle-talend-component:${talendComponentVersion}"
  }
}

apply plugin: 'org.talend.sdk.component'
apply plugin: 'java'

// optional customization
talendComponentKit {
    // dependencies.txt generation, replaces maven-dependency-plugin
    dependenciesLocation = "TALEND-INF/dependencies.txt"
    boolean skipDependenciesFile = false;

    // classpath for validation utilities
    sdkVersion = "${talendComponentVersion}"
    apiVersion = "${talendComponentApiVersion}"

    // documentation
    skipDocumentation = false
    documentationOutput = new File(....)
    documentationLevel = 2 // first level will be == in the generated .adoc
    documentationTitle = 'My Component Family' // defaults to ${project.name}
    documentationAttributes = [:] // adoc attributes
    documentationFormats = [:] // renderings to do
    documentationVersion = 1.1 // defaults to the .pom version

    // validation
    skipValidation = false
    validateFamily = true
    validateSerializable = true
    validateInternationalization = true
    validateModel = true
    validateOptionNames = true
    validateMetadata = true
    validateComponent = true
    validateDataStore = true
    validateDataSet = true
    validateActions = true
    validateLocalConfiguration = true
    validateOutputConnection = true
    validateLayout = true
    validateDocumentation = true

    // web
    serverArguments = []
    serverPort = 8080

    // car
    carAttach = true
    carClassifier = component // classifier to use if carAttach is set to true
    carOutput = new File(....)
    carMetadata = [:] // custom meta (string key-value pairs)
    carPackaging = ${project.packaging}

    // deploy-in-studio
    studioHome = "C:\<pathToSutdio>"

    // svg2png
    icons = 'resources/main/icons'
    useIconWorkarounds = true
}

Wrapping a Beam I/O

Limitations

This part is limited to specific kinds of Beam PTransform:

  • PTransform<PBegin, PCollection<?>> for inputs.

  • PTransform<PCollection<?>, PDone> for outputs. Outputs must use a single (composite or not) DoFn in their apply method.

Wrapping an input

To illustrate the input wrapping, this procedure uses the following input as a starting point (based on existing Beam inputs):

@AutoValue
public abstract [static] class Read extends PTransform<PBegin, PCollection<String>> {

  // config

  @Override
  public PCollection<String> expand(final PBegin input) {
    return input.apply(
        org.apache.beam.sdk.io.Read.from(new BoundedElasticsearchSource(this, null)));
  }

  // ... other transform methods
}

To wrap the Read in a framework component, create a transform delegating to that Read with at least a @PartitionMapper annotation and using @Option constructor injections to configure the component. Also make sure to follow the best practices and to specify @Icon and @Version.

@PartitionMapper(family = "myfamily", name = "myname")
public class WrapRead extends PTransform<PBegin, PCollection<String>> {
  private PTransform<PBegin, PCollection<String>> delegate;

  public WrapRead(@Option("dataset") final WrapReadDataSet dataset) {
    delegate = TheIO.read().withConfiguration(this.createConfigurationFrom(dataset));
  }

  @Override
  public PCollection<String> expand(final PBegin input) {
    return delegate.expand(input);
  }

  // ... other methods like the mapping with the native configuration (createConfigurationFrom)
}

Wrapping an output

To illustrate the output wrapping, this procedure uses the following output as a starting point (based on existing Beam outputs):

@AutoValue
public abstract [static] class Write extends PTransform<PCollection<String>, PDone> {


    // configuration withXXX(...)

    @Override
    public PDone expand(final PCollection<String> input) {
      input.apply(ParDo.of(new WriteFn(this)));
      return PDone.in(input.getPipeline());
    }

    // other methods of the transform
}

You can wrap this output exactly the same way you wrap an input, but using @Processor instead of:

@Processor(family = "myfamily", name = "myname")
public class WrapWrite extends PTransform<PCollection<String>, PDone> {
  private PTransform<PCollection<String>, PDone> delegate;

  public WrapWrite(@Option("dataset") final WrapWriteDataSet dataset) {
    delegate = TheIO.write().withConfiguration(this.createConfigurationFrom(dataset));
  }

  @Override
  public PDone expand(final PCollection<String> input) {
    return delegate.expand(input);
  }

  // ... other methods like the mapping with the native configuration (createConfigurationFrom)
}

Tip

Note that the org.talend.sdk.component.runtime.beam.transform.DelegatingTransform class fully delegates the "expansion" to another transform. Therefore, you can extend it and implement the configuration mapping:

@Processor(family = "beam", name = "file")
public class BeamFileOutput extends DelegatingTransform<PCollection<String>, PDone> {

    public BeamFileOutput(@Option("output") final String output) {
        super(TextIO.write()
            .withSuffix("test")
            .to(FileBasedSink.convertToFileResourceIfPossible(output)));
    }
}

Advanced

In terms of classloading, when you write an I/O, the Beam SDK Java core stack is assumed as provided in Talend Component Kit runtime. This way, you don’t need to include it in the compile scope, it would be ignored anyway.

Coder

If you need a JSonCoder, you can use the org.talend.sdk.component.runtime.beam.factory.service.PluginCoderFactory service, which gives you access to the JSON-P and JSON-B coders.

There is also an Avro coder, which uses the FileContainer. It ensures it is self-contained for IndexedRecord and it does not require—as the default Apache Beam AvroCoder—to set the schema when creating a pipeline.
It consumes more space and therefore is slightly slower, but it is fine for DoFn, since it does not rely on serialization in most cases. See org.talend.sdk.component.runtime.beam.transform.avro.IndexedRecordCoder.

JsonObject to IndexedRecord

If your PCollection is made of JsonObject records, and you want to convert them to IndexedRecord, you can use the following PTransforms:

IndexedRecordToJson

converts an IndexedRecord to a JsonObject.

JsonToIndexedRecord

converts a JsonObject to an IndexedRecord.

SchemalessJsonToIndexedRecord

converts a JsonObject to an IndexedRecord with AVRO schema inference.

Record coder

There are two main provided coder for Record:

FullSerializationRecordCoder

it will unwrap the record as an Avro IndexedRecord and serialize it with its schema. This can indeed have a performance impact but, due to the structure of component, it will not impact the runtime performance in general - except with direct runner - because the runners will optimize the pipeline accurately.

SchemaRegistryCoder

it will serialize the Avro IndexedRecord as well but it will ensure the schema is in the SchemaRegistry to be able to deserialize it when needed. This implementation is faster but the default implementation of the registry is "in memory" so will only work with a single worker node. You can extend it using Java SPI mecanism to use a custom distributed implementation.

Sample

Sample input based on Beam Kafka:

@Version
@Icon(Icon.IconType.KAFKA)
@Emitter(name = "Input")
@AllArgsConstructor
@Documentation("Kafka Input")
public class KafkaInput extends PTransform<PBegin, PCollection<Record>> { (1)

    private final InputConfiguration configuration;

    private final RecordBuilderFactory builder;

    private final PluginCoderFactory coderFactory;

    private KafkaIO.Read<byte[], byte[]> delegate() {
        final KafkaIO.Read<byte[], byte[]> read = KafkaIO.<byte[], byte[]> read()
                .withBootstrapServers(configuration.getBootstrapServers())
                .withTopics(configuration.getTopics().stream().map(InputConfiguration.Topic::getName).collect(toList()))
                .withKeyDeserializer(ByteArrayDeserializer.class).withValueDeserializer(ByteArrayDeserializer.class);
        if (configuration.getMaxResults() > 0) {
            return read.withMaxNumRecords(configuration.getMaxResults());
        }
        return read;
    }

    @Override (2)
    public PCollection<Record> expand(final PBegin pBegin) {
        final PCollection<KafkaRecord<byte[], byte[]>> kafkaEntries = pBegin.getPipeline().apply(delegate());
        return kafkaEntries.apply(ParDo.of(new BytesToRecord(builder))).setCoder(SchemaRegistryCoder.of()); (3)
    }

    @AllArgsConstructor
    private static class BytesToRecord extends DoFn<KafkaRecord<byte[], byte[]>, Record> {

        private final RecordBuilderFactory builder;

        @ProcessElement
        public void onElement(final ProcessContext context) {
            context.output(toRecord(context.element()));
        }

        private Record toRecord(final KafkaRecord<byte[], byte[]> element) {
            return builder.newRecordBuilder().add("key", element.getKV().getKey())
                    .add("value", element.getKV().getValue()).build();
        }
    }
}
1 The PTransform generics define that the component is an input (PBegin marker).
2 The expand method chains the native I/O with a custom mapper (BytesToRecord).
3 The mapper uses the SchemaRegistry coder automatically created from the contextual component.

Because the Beam wrapper does not respect the standard Talend Component Kit programming model ( for example, there is no @Emitter), you need to set the <talend.validation.component>false</talend.validation.component> property in your pom.xml file (or equivalent for Gradle) to skip the component programming model validations of the framework.

Talend Component Kit best practices

Organizing your code

Some recommendations apply to the way component packages are organized:

  1. Make sure to create a package-info.java file with the component family/categories at the root of your component package:

@Components(family = "jdbc", categories = "Database")
package org.talend.sdk.component.jdbc;

import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Components;
  1. Create a package for the configuration.

  2. Create a package for the actions.

  3. Create a package for the component and one sub-package by type of component (input, output, processors, and so on).

Configuring components

Serializing your configuration

It is recommended to serialize your configuration in order to be able to pass it through other components.

Input and output components

When building a new component, the first step is to identify the way it must be configured.

The two main concepts are:

  1. The DataStore which is the way you can access the backend.

  2. The DataSet which is the way you interact with the backend.

For example:

Example description DataStore DataSet

Accessing a relational database like MySQL

JDBC driver, URL, username, password

Query to execute, row mapper, and so on.

Accessing a file system

File pattern (or directory + file extension/prefix/…​)

File format, buffer size, and so on.

It is common to have the dataset including the datastore, because both are required to work. However, it is recommended to replace this pattern by defining both dataset and datastore in a higher level configuration model. For example:

@DataSet
public class MyDataSet {
    // ...
}

@DataStore
public class MyDataStore {
    // ...
}


public class MyComponentConfiguration {
    @Option
    private MyDataSet dataset;

    @Option
    private MyDataStore datastore;
}
About actions

Input and output components are particular because they can be linked to a set of actions. It is recommended to wire all the actions you can apply to ensure the consumers of your component can provide a rich experience to their users.

The most common actions are the following ones:

@Checkable (DataStore)

This action exposes a way to ensure the datastore/connection works.

Configuration example:

@DataStore
@Checkable
public class JdbcDataStore
  implements Serializable {

  @Option
  private String driver;

  @Option
  private String url;

  @Option
  private String username;

  @Option
  private String password;
}

Action example:

@HealthCheck
public HealthCheckStatus healthCheck(@Option("datastore") JdbcDataStore datastore) {
    if (!doTest(dataStore)) {
        // often add an exception message mapping or equivalent
        return new HealthCheckStatus(Status.KO, "Test failed");
    }
    return new HealthCheckStatus(Status.KO, e.getMessage());
}
Limitations

Until the studio integration is complete, it is recommended to limit processors to one input.

Processor components

Configuring processor components is simpler than configuring input and output components because it is specific for each component. For example, a mapper takes the mapping between the input and output models:

public class MappingConfiguration {
    @Option
    private Map<String, String> fieldsMapping;

    @Option
    private boolean ignoreCase;

    //...
}

Handling UI interactions

It is recommended to provide as much information as possible to let the UI work with the data during its edition.

Validations
Light validations

Light validations are all the validations you can execute on the client side. They are listed in the UI hint section.

Use light validations first before going with custom validations because they are more efficient.

Custom validations

Custom validations enforce custom code to be executed, but are heavier to execute.

Prefer using light validations when possible.

Define an action with the parameters needed for the validation and link the option you want to validate to this action. For example, to validate a dataset for a JDBC driver:

// ...
public class JdbcDataStore
  implements Serializable {

  @Option
  @Validable("driver")
  private String driver;

  // ...
}

@AsyncValidation("driver")
public ValidationResult validateDriver(@Option("value") String driver) {
  if (findDriver(driver) != null) {
    return new ValidationResult(Status.OK, "Driver found");
  }
  return new ValidationResult(Status.KO, "Driver not found");
}

You can also define a Validable class and use it to validate a form by setting it on your whole configuration:

// Note: some parts of the API were removed for clarity

public class MyConfiguration {

  // a lot of @Options
}

public MyComponent {
    public MyComponent(@Validable("configuration") MyConfiguration config) {
        // ...
    }

    //...
}

@AsyncValidation("configuration")
public ValidationResult validateDriver(@Option("value") MyConfiguration configuration) {
  if (isValid(configuration)) {
    return new ValidationResult(Status.OK, "Configuration valid");
  }
  return new ValidationResult(Status.KO, "Driver not valid ${because ...}");
}
The parameter binding of the validation method uses the same logic as the component configuration injection. Therefore, the @Option method specifies the prefix to use to reference a parameter.
It is recommended to use @Option("value") until you know exactly why you don’t use it. This way, the consumer can match the configuration model and just prefix it with value. to send the instance to validate.

Validations are triggers based on "events". If you mark part of a configuration as @Validable but this configuration is translated to a widget without any interaction, then no validation will happen. The rule of thumb is to mark only primitives and simple types (list of primitives) as @Validable.

Completion

It can be handy and user-friendly to provide completion on some fields. For example, to define completion for available drivers:

// ...
public class JdbcDataStore
  implements Serializable {

  @Option
  @Completable("driver")
  private String driver;

  // ...
}

@Completion("driver")
public CompletionList findDrivers() {
    return new CompletionList(findDriverList());
}
Component representation

Each component must have its own icon:

@Icon(Icon.IconType.DB_INPUT)
@PartitionMapper(family = "jdbc", name = "input")
public class JdbcPartitionMapper
    implements Serializable {
}
You can use talend.surge.sh/icons/ to find the icon you want to use.

Enforcing versioning on components

It is recommended to enforce the version of your component, event though it is not mandatory for the first version.

@Version(1)
@PartitionMapper(family = "jdbc", name = "input")
public class JdbcPartitionMapper
    implements Serializable {
}

If you break a configuration entry in a later version; make sure to:

  1. Upgrade the version.

  2. Support a migration of the configuration.

@Version(value = 2, migrationHandler = JdbcPartitionMapper.Migrations.class)
@PartitionMapper(family = "jdbc", name = "input")
public class JdbcPartitionMapper
    implements Serializable {

    public static class Migrations implements MigrationHandler {
        // implement your migration
    }
}

Testing components

Testing your components is critical. You can use unit and simple standalone JUnit tests, but it is also highly recommended to have Beam tests in order to make sure that your component works in Big Data.

Component Loading

Talend Component scanning is based on plugins. To make sure that plugins can be developed in parallel and avoid conflicts, they need to be isolated (component or group of components in a single jar/plugin).

Multiple options are available:

  • Graph classloading: this option allows you to link the plugins and dependencies together dynamically in any direction.
    For example, the graph classloading can be illustrated by OSGi containers.

  • Tree classloading: a shared classloader inherited by plugin classloaders. However, plugin classloader classes are not seen by the shared classloader, nor by other plugins.
    For example, the tree classloading is commonly used by Servlet containers where plugins are web applications.

  • Flat classpath: listed for completeness but rejected by design because it doesn’t comply with this requirement.

In order to avoid much complexity added by this layer, Talend Component Kit relies on a tree classloading. The advantage is that you don’t need to define the relationship with other plugins/dependencies, because it is built-in.

Here is a representation of this solution:

Classloader layout

The shared area contains Talend Component Kit API, which only contains by default the classes shared by the plugins.

Then, each plugin is loaded with its own classloader and dependencies.

Packaging a plugin

This section explains the overall way to handle dependencies but the Talend Maven plugin provides a shortcut for that.

A plugin is a JAR file that was enriched with the list of its dependencies. By default, Talend Component Kit runtime is able to read the output of maven-dependency-plugin in TALEND-INF/dependencies.txt. You just need to make sure that your component defines the following plugin:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-dependency-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.2</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <id>create-TALEND-INF/dependencies.txt</id>
      <phase>process-resources</phase>
      <goals>
        <goal>list</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
        <outputFile>${project.build.outputDirectory}/TALEND-INF/dependencies.txt</outputFile>
      </configuration>
    </execution>
  </executions>
</plugin>

Once build, check the JAR file and look for the following lines:

$ unzip -p target/mycomponent-1.0.0-SNAPSHOT.jar TALEND-INF/dependencies.txt

The following files have been resolved:
   org.talend.sdk.component:component-api:jar:1.0.0-SNAPSHOT:provided
   org.apache.geronimo.specs:geronimo-annotation_1.3_spec:jar:1.0:provided
   org.superbiz:awesome-project:jar:1.2.3:compile
   junit:junit:jar:4.12:test
   org.hamcrest:hamcrest-core:jar:1.3:test

What is important to see is the scope related to the artifacts:

  • The APIs (component-api and geronimo-annotation_1.3_spec) are provided because you can consider them to be there when executing (they come with the framework).

  • Your specific dependencies (awesome-project in the example above) are marked as compile: they are included as needed dependencies by the framework (note that using runtime works too).

  • the other dependencies are ignored. For example, test dependencies.

Packaging an application

Even if a flat classpath deployment is possible, it is not recommended because it would then reduce the capabilities of the components.

Dependencies

The way the framework resolves dependencies is based on a local Maven repository layout. As a quick reminder, it looks like:

.
├── groupId1
│   └── artifactId1
│       ├── version1
│       │   └── artifactId1-version1.jar
│       └── version2
│           └── artifactId1-version2.jar
└── groupId2
    └── artifactId2
        └── version1
            └── artifactId2-version1.jar

This is all the layout the framework uses. The logic converts t-uple {groupId, artifactId, version, type (jar)} to the path in the repository.

Talend Component Kit runtime has two ways to find an artifact:

  • From the file system based on a configured Maven 2 repository.

  • From a fat JAR (uber JAR) with a nested Maven repository under MAVEN-INF/repository.

The first option uses either ${user.home}/.m2/repository (default) or a specific path configured when creating a ComponentManager. The nested repository option needs some configuration during the packaging to ensure the repository is correctly created.

Creating a nested Maven repository with maven-shade-plugin

To create the nested MAVEN-INF/repository repository, you can use the nested-maven-repository extension:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.2.1</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <phase>package</phase>
      <goals>
        <goal>shade</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
        <transformers>
          <transformer implementation="org.talend.sdk.component.container.maven.shade.ContainerDependenciesTransformer">
            <session>${session}</session>
          </transformer>
        </transformers>
      </configuration>
    </execution>
  </executions>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
      <artifactId>nested-maven-repository</artifactId>
      <version>${the.plugin.version}</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</plugin>
Listing needed plugins

Plugins are usually programmatically registered. If you want to make some of them automatically available, you need to generate a TALEND-INF/plugins.properties file that maps a plugin name to coordinates found with the Maven mechanism described above.

You can enrich maven-shade-plugin to do it:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.2.1</version>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <phase>package</phase>
      <goals>
        <goal>shade</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
        <transformers>
          <transformer implementation="org.talend.sdk.component.container.maven.shade.PluginTransformer">
            <session>${session}</session>
          </transformer>
        </transformers>
      </configuration>
    </execution>
  </executions>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
      <artifactId>nested-maven-repository</artifactId>
      <version>${the.plugin.version}</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</plugin>
maven-shade-plugin extensions

Here is a final job/application bundle based on maven-shade-plugin:

<plugin>
  <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
  <artifactId>maven-shade-plugin</artifactId>
  <version>3.2.1</version>
  <configuration>
    <createDependencyReducedPom>false</createDependencyReducedPom>
    <filters>
      <filter>
        <artifact>*:*</artifact>
        <excludes>
          <exclude>META-INF/.SF</exclude>
          <exclude>META-INF/.DSA</exclude>
          <exclude>META-INF/*.RSA</exclude>
        </excludes>
      </filter>
    </filters>
  </configuration>
  <executions>
    <execution>
      <phase>package</phase>
      <goals>
        <goal>shade</goal>
      </goals>
      <configuration>
        <shadedClassifierName>shaded</shadedClassifierName>
        <transformers>
          <transformer implementation="org.apache.maven.plugins.shade.resource.ServicesResourceTransformer"/>
          <transformer
              implementation="org.talend.sdk.component.container.maven.shade.ContainerDependenciesTransformer">
            <session>${session}</session>
            <userArtifacts>
              <artifact>
                <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
                <artifactId>sample-component</artifactId>
                <version>1.0</version>
                <type>jar</type>
              </artifact>
            </userArtifacts>
          </transformer>
          <transformer implementation="org.talend.sdk.component.container.maven.shade.PluginTransformer">
            <session>${session}</session>
            <userArtifacts>
              <artifact>
                <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
                <artifactId>sample-component</artifactId>
                <version>1.0</version>
                <type>jar</type>
              </artifact>
            </userArtifacts>
          </transformer>
        </transformers>
      </configuration>
    </execution>
  </executions>
  <dependencies>
    <dependency>
      <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
      <artifactId>nested-maven-repository</artifactId>
      <version>${the.version}</version>
    </dependency>
  </dependencies>
</plugin>
The configuration unrelated to transformers depends on your application.

ContainerDependenciesTransformer embeds a Maven repository and PluginTransformer to create a file that lists (one per line) artifacts (representing plugins).

Both transformers share most of their configuration:

  • session: must be set to ${session}. This is used to retrieve dependencies.

  • scope: a comma-separated list of scopes to include in the artifact filtering (note that the default will rely on provided but you can replace it by compile, runtime, runtime+compile, runtime+system or test).

  • include: a comma-separated list of artifacts to include in the artifact filtering.

  • exclude: a comma-separated list of artifacts to exclude in the artifact filtering.

  • userArtifacts: set of artifacts to include (groupId, artifactId, version, type - optional, file - optional for plugin transformer, scope - optional) which can be forced inline. This parameter is mainly useful for PluginTransformer.

  • includeTransitiveDependencies: should transitive dependencies of the components be included. Set to true by default. It is active for userArtifacts.

  • includeProjectComponentDependencies: should component project dependencies be included. Set to false by default. It is not needed when a job project uses isolation for components.

With the component tooling, it is recommended to keep default locations.
Also if you need to use project dependencies, you can need to refactor your project structure to ensure component isolation.
Talend Component Kit lets you handle that part but the recommended practice is to use userArtifacts for the components instead of project <dependencies>.
ContainerDependenciesTransformer

ContainerDependenciesTransformer specific configuration is as follows:

  • repositoryBase: base repository location (MAVEN-INF/repository by default).

  • ignoredPaths: a comma-separated list of folders not to create in the output JAR. This is common for folders already created by other transformers/build parts.

PluginTransformer

ContainerDependenciesTransformer specific configuration is the following one:

  • pluginListResource: base repository location (default to TALEND-INF/plugins.properties).

For example, if you want to list only the plugins you use, you can configure this transformer as follows:

<transformer implementation="org.talend.sdk.component.container.maven.shade.PluginTransformer">
  <session>${session}</session>
  <include>org.talend.sdk.component:component-x,org.talend.sdk.component:component-y,org.talend.sdk.component:component-z</include>
</transformer>

Component scanning rules and default exclusions

The framework uses two kind of filterings when scanning your component. One based on the JAR content - the presence of TALEND-INF/dependencies.txt and one based on the package name. Make sure that your component definitions (including services) are in a scanned module if they are not registered manually using ComponentManager.instance().addPlugin(), and that the component package is not excluded.

Package Scanning

Since the framework can be used in the case of fatjars or shades, and because it still uses scanning, it is important to ensure we don’t scan the whole classes for performances reason.

Therefore, the following packages are ignored:

  • avro.shaded

  • com.codehale.metrics

  • com.ctc.wstx

  • com.datastax.driver

  • com.fasterxml.jackson

  • com.google.common

  • com.google.thirdparty

  • com.ibm.wsdl

  • com.jcraft.jsch

  • com.kenai

  • com.sun.istack

  • com.sun.xml

  • com.talend.shaded

  • com.thoughtworks

  • io.jsonwebtoken

  • io.netty

  • io.swagger

  • javax

  • jnr

  • junit

  • net.sf.ehcache

  • net.shibboleth

  • org.aeonbits.owner

  • org.apache

  • org.bouncycastle

  • org.codehaus

  • org.cryptacular

  • org.eclipse

  • org.fusesource

  • org.h2

  • org.hamcrest

  • org.hsqldb

  • org.jasypt

  • org.jboss

  • org.joda

  • org.jose4j

  • org.junit

  • org.jvnet

  • org.metatype

  • org.objectweb

  • org.openejb

  • org.opensaml

  • org.slf4j

  • org.swizzle

  • org.terracotta

  • org.tukaani

  • org.yaml

  • serp

it is not recommanded but possible to add in your plugin module a TALEND-INF/scanning.properties file with classloader.includes and classloader.excludes entries to refine the scanning with custom rules. In such a case, exclusions win over inclusions.

Testing components

Developing new components includes testing them in the required execution environments. Use the following articles to learn about the best practices and the available options to fully test your components.

Testing best practices

This section mainly concerns tools that can be used with JUnit. You can use most of these best practices with TestNG as well.

Parameterized tests

Parameterized tests are a great solution to repeat the same test multiple times. This method of testing requires defining a test scenario (I test function F) and making the input/output data dynamic.

JUnit 4

Here is a test example, which validates a connection URI using ConnectionService:

public class MyConnectionURITest {
    @Test
    public void checkMySQL() {
        assertTrue(new ConnectionService().isValid("jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mysql"));
    }

    @Test
    public void checkOracle() {
        assertTrue(new ConnectionService().isValid("jdbc:oracle:thin:@//myhost:1521/oracle"));
    }
}

The testing method is always the same. Only values are changing. It can therefore be rewritten using JUnit Parameterized runner, as follows:

@RunWith(Parameterized.class) (1)
public class MyConnectionURITest {

    @Parameterized.Parameters(name = "{0}") (2)
    public static Iterable<String> uris() { (3)
        return asList(
            "jdbc:mysql://localhost:3306/mysql",
            "jdbc:oracle:thin:@//myhost:1521/oracle");
    }

    @Parameterized.Parameter (4)
    public String uri;

    @Test
    public void isValid() { (5)
        assertNotNull(uri);
    }
}
1 Parameterized is the runner that understands @Parameters and how to use it. If needed, you can generate random data here.
2 By default the name of the executed test is the index of the data. Here, it is customized using the first toString() parameter value to have something more readable.
3 The @Parameters method must be static and return an array or iterable of the data used by the tests.
4 You can then inject the current data using the @Parameter annotation. It can take a parameter if you use an array of array instead of an iterable of object in @Parameterized. You can select which item you want to inject.
5 The @Test method is executed using the contextual data. In this sample, it gets executed twice with the two specified URIs.
You don’t have to define a single @Test method. If you define multiple methods, each of them is executed with all the data. For example, if another test is added to the previous example, four tests are executed - 2 per data).
JUnit 5

With JUnit 5, parameterized tests are easier to use. The full documentation is available at junit.org/junit5/docs/current/user-guide/#writing-tests-parameterized-tests.

The main difference with JUnit 4 is that you can also define inline that the test method is a parameterized test as well as the values to use:

@ParameterizedTest
@ValueSource(strings = { "racecar", "radar", "able was I ere I saw elba" })
void mytest(String currentValue) {
    // do test
}

However, you can still use the previous behavior with a method binding configuration:

@ParameterizedTest
@MethodSource("stringProvider")
void mytest(String currentValue) {
    // do test
}

static Stream<String> stringProvider() {
    return Stream.of("foo", "bar");
}

This last option allows you to inject any type of value - not only primitives - which is common to define scenarios.

Add the junit-jupiter-params dependency to benefit from this feature.

component-runtime-testing

component-runtime-junit

component-runtime-junit is a test library that allows you to validate simple logic based on the Talend Component Kit tooling.

To import it, add the following dependency to your project:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
  <artifactId>component-runtime-junit</artifactId>
  <version>${talend-component.version}</version>
  <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

This dependency also provides mocked components that you can use with your own component to create tests.

The mocked components are provided under the test family:

  • emitter : a mock of an input component

  • collector : a mock of an output component

The collector is "per thread" by default. If you are executing a Beam (or concurrent) job, it will not work. To switch to a JVM wide storage, set the talend.component.junit.handler.state system property to static (default being thread). You can do it in a maven-surefire-plugin execution.
JUnit 4

You can define a standard JUnit test and use the SimpleComponentRule rule:

public class MyComponentTest {

    @Rule (1)
    public final SimpleComponentRule components = new SimpleComponentRule("org.talend.sdk.component.mycomponent");

    @Test
    public void produce() {
        Job.components() (2)
             .component("mycomponent","yourcomponentfamily://yourcomponent?"+createComponentConfig())
             .component("collector", "test://collector")
           .connections()
             .from("mycomponent").to("collector")
           .build()
           .run();

        final List<MyRecord> records = components.getCollectedData(MyRecord.class); (3)
        doAssertRecords(records); // depending your test
    }
}
1 The rule creates a component manager and provides two mock components: an emitter and a collector. Set the root package of your component to enable it.
2 Define any chain that you want to test. It generally uses the mock as source or collector.
3 Validate your component behavior. For a source, you can assert that the right records were emitted in the mock collect.
The rule can also be defined as a @ClassRule to start it once per class and not per test as with @Rule.

To go further, you can add the ServiceInjectionRule rule, which allows to inject all the component family services into the test class by marking test class fields with @Service:

public class SimpleComponentRuleTest {

    @ClassRule
    public static final SimpleComponentRule COMPONENT_FACTORY = new SimpleComponentRule("...");

    @Rule (1)
    public final ServiceInjectionRule injections = new ServiceInjectionRule(COMPONENT_FACTORY, this); (2)

    @Service (3)
    private LocalConfiguration configuration;

    @Service
    private Jsonb jsonb;

    @Test
    public void test() {
        // ...
    }
}
1 The injection requires the test instance, so it must be a @Rule rather than a @ClassRule.
2 The ComponentsController is passed to the rule, which for JUnit 4 is the SimpleComponentRule, as well as the test instance to inject services in.
3 All service fields are marked with @Service to let the rule inject them before the test is ran.
JUnit 5

The JUnit 5 integration is very similar to JUnit 4, except that it uses the JUnit 5 extension mechanism.

The entry point is the @WithComponents annotation that you add to your test class, and which takes the component package you want to test. You can use @Injected to inject an instance of ComponentsHandler - which exposes the same utilities than the JUnit 4 rule - in a test class field :

@WithComponents("org.talend.sdk.component.junit.component") (1)
public class ComponentExtensionTest {
    @Injected (2)
    private ComponentsHandler handler;

    @Test
    public void manualMapper() {
        final Mapper mapper = handler.createMapper(Source.class, new Source.Config() {

            {
                values = asList("a", "b");
            }
        });
        assertFalse(mapper.isStream());
        final Input input = mapper.create();
        assertEquals("a", input.next());
        assertEquals("b", input.next());
        assertNull(input.next());
    }
}
1 The annotation defines which components to register in the test context.
2 The field allows to get the handler to be able to orchestrate the tests.
If you use JUnit 5 for the first time, keep in mind that the imports changed and that you need to use org.junit.jupiter.api.Test instead of org.junit.Test. Some IDE versions and surefire versions can also require you to install either a plugin or a specific configuration.

As for JUnit 4, you can go further by injecting test class fields marked with @Service, but there is no additional extension to specify in this case:

@WithComponents("...")
class ComponentExtensionTest {

    @Service (1)
    private LocalConfiguration configuration;

    @Service
    private Jsonb jsonb;

    @Test
    void test() {
        // ...
    }
}
1 All service fields are marked with @Service to let the rule inject them before the test is ran.
Streaming components

Streaming components have the issue to not stop by design. The Job DSL exposes two properties to help with that issue:

  • streaming.maxRecords: enables to request a maximum number of records

  • streaming.maxDurationMs: enables to request a maximum duration for the execution of the input

You can set them as properties on the job:

job.property("streaming.maxRecords", 5);
Mocking the output

Using the test://collector component as shown in the previous sample stores all records emitted by the chain (typically your source) in memory. You can then access them using theSimpleComponentRule.getCollectedData(type).

Note that this method filters by type. If you don’t need any specific type, you can use Object.class.

Mocking the input

The input mocking is symmetric to the output. In this case, you provide the data you want to inject:

public class MyComponentTest {

    @Rule
    public final SimpleComponentRule components = new SimpleComponentRule("org.talend.sdk.component.mycomponent");

    @Test
    public void produce() {
        components.setInputData(asList(createData(), createData(), createData())); (1)

        Job.components()
             .component("emitter","test://emitter")
             .component("out", "yourcomponentfamily://myoutput?"+createComponentConfig())
           .connections()
              .from("emitter").to("out")
           .build()
           .run();

        assertMyOutputProcessedTheInputData();
    }
}
1 using setInputData, you prepare the execution(s) to have a fake input when using the "test"/"emitter" component.
Creating runtime configuration from component configuration

The component configuration is a POJO (using @Option on fields) and the runtime configuration (ExecutionChainBuilder) uses a Map<String, String>. To make the conversion easier, the JUnit integration provides a SimpleFactory.configurationByExample utility to get this map instance from a configuration instance.

Example:

final MyComponentConfig componentConfig = new MyComponentConfig();
componentConfig.setUser("....");
// .. other inits

final Map<String, String> configuration = configurationByExample(componentConfig);

The same factory provides a fluent DSL to create the configuration by calling configurationByExample without any parameter. The advantage is to be able to convert an object as a Map<String, String> or as a query string in order to use it with the Job DSL:

final String uri = "family://component?" +
    configurationByExample().forInstance(componentConfig).configured().toQueryString();

It handles the encoding of the URI to ensure it is correctly done.

When writing tests for your components, you can force the maxBatchSize parameter value by setting it with the following syntax: $configuration.$maxBatchSize=10.
Testing a Mapper

The SimpleComponentRule also allows to test a mapper unitarily. You can get an instance from a configuration and execute this instance to collect the output.

Example:

public class MapperTest {

    @ClassRule
    public static final SimpleComponentRule COMPONENT_FACTORY = new SimpleComponentRule(
            "org.company.talend.component");

    @Test
    public void mapper() {
        final Mapper mapper = COMPONENT_FACTORY.createMapper(MyMapper.class, new Source.Config() {{
            values = asList("a", "b");
        }});
        assertEquals(asList("a", "b"), COMPONENT_FACTORY.collectAsList(String.class, mapper));
    }
}
Testing a Processor

As for a mapper, a processor is testable unitary. However, this case can be more complex in case of multiple inputs or outputs.

Example:

public class ProcessorTest {

    @ClassRule
    public static final SimpleComponentRule COMPONENT_FACTORY = new SimpleComponentRule(
            "org.company.talend.component");

    @Test
    public void processor() {
        final Processor processor = COMPONENT_FACTORY.createProcessor(Transform.class, null);
        final SimpleComponentRule.Outputs outputs = COMPONENT_FACTORY.collect(processor,
                        new JoinInputFactory().withInput("__default__", asList(new Transform.Record("a"), new Transform.Record("bb")))
                                              .withInput("second", asList(new Transform.Record("1"), new Transform.Record("2")))
                );
        assertEquals(2, outputs.size());
        assertEquals(asList(2, 3), outputs.get(Integer.class, "size"));
        assertEquals(asList("a1", "bb2"), outputs.get(String.class, "value"));
    }
}

The rule allows you to instantiate a Processor from your code, and then to collect the output from the inputs you pass in. There are two convenient implementations of the input factory:

  1. MainInputFactory for processors using only the default input.

  2. JoinInputfactory with the withInput(branch, data) method for processors using multiple inputs. The first argument is the branch name and the second argument is the data used by the branch.

If needed, you can also implement your own input representation using org.talend.sdk.component.junit.ControllableInputFactory.

component-runtime-testing-spark

The following artifact allows you to test against a Spark cluster:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
  <artifactId>component-runtime-testing-spark</artifactId>
  <version>${talend-component.version}</version>
  <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
JUnit 4

The testing relies on a JUnit TestRule. It is recommended to use it as a @ClassRule, to make sure that a single instance of a Spark cluster is built. You can also use it as a simple @Rule, to create the Spark cluster instances per method instead of per test class.

The @ClassRule takes the Spark and Scala versions to use as parameters. It then forks a master and N slaves. Finally, the submit* method allows you to send jobs either from the test classpath or from a shade if you run it as an integration test.

For example:

public class SparkClusterRuleTest {

    @ClassRule
    public static final SparkClusterRule SPARK = new SparkClusterRule("2.10", "1.6.3", 1);

    @Test
    public void classpathSubmit() throws IOException {
        SPARK.submitClasspath(SubmittableMain.class, getMainArgs());

        // wait for the test to pass
    }
}
This testing methodology works with @Parameterized. You can submit several jobs with different arguments and even combine it with Beam TestPipeline if you make it transient.
JUnit 5

The integration of that Spark cluster logic with JUnit 5 is done using the @WithSpark marker for the extension. Optionally, it allows you to inject—through @SparkInject—the BaseSpark<?> handler to access the Spark cluster meta information. For example, its host/port.

Example:

@WithSpark
class SparkExtensionTest {

    @SparkInject
    private BaseSpark<?> spark;

    @Test
    void classpathSubmit() throws IOException {
        final File out = new File(jarLocation(SparkClusterRuleTest.class).getParentFile(), "classpathSubmitJunit5.out");
        if (out.exists()) {
            out.delete();
        }
        spark.submitClasspath(SparkClusterRuleTest.SubmittableMain.class, spark.getSparkMaster(), out.getAbsolutePath());

        await().atMost(5, MINUTES).until(
                () -> out.exists() ? Files.readAllLines(out.toPath()).stream().collect(joining("\n")).trim() : null,
                equalTo("b -> 1\na -> 1"));
    }
}
Checking the job execution status

Currently, SparkClusterRule does not allow to know when a job execution is done, even by exposing and polling the web UI URL to check. The best solution at the moment is to make sure that the output of your job exists and contains the right value.

awaitability or any equivalent library can help you to implement such logic:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.awaitility</groupId>
  <artifactId>awaitility</artifactId>
  <version>3.0.0</version>
  <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>

To wait until a file exists and check that its content (for example) is the expected one, you can use the following logic:

await()
    .atMost(5, MINUTES)
    .until(
        () -> out.exists() ? Files.readAllLines(out.toPath()).stream().collect(joining("\n")).trim() : null,
        equalTo("the expected content of the file"));

component-runtime-http-junit

The HTTP JUnit module allows you to mock REST API very simply. The module coordinates are:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
  <artifactId>component-runtime-http-junit</artifactId>
  <version>${talend-component.version}</version>
  <scope>test</scope>
</dependency>
This module uses Apache Johnzon and Netty. If you have any conflict (in particular with Netty), you can add the shaded classifier to the dependency. This way, both dependencies are shaded, which avoids conflicts with your component.

It supports both JUnit 4 and JUnit 5. The concept is the exact same one: the extension/rule is able to serve precomputed responses saved in the classpath.

You can plug your own ResponseLocator to map a request to a response, but the default implementation - which should be sufficient in most cases - looks in talend/testing/http/<class name>_<method name>.json. Note that you can also put it in talend/testing/http/<request path>.json.

JUnit 4

JUnit 4 setup is done through two rules:

  • JUnit4HttpApi, which is starts the server.

  • JUnit4HttpApiPerMethodConfigurator, which configures the server per test and also handles the capture mode.

If you don’t use the JUnit4HttpApiPerMethodConfigurator, the capture feature is disabled and the per test mocking is not available.
Test example
public class MyRESTApiTest {
    @ClassRule
    public static final JUnit4HttpApi API = new JUnit4HttpApi();

    @Rule
    public final JUnit4HttpApiPerMethodConfigurator configurator = new JUnit4HttpApiPerMethodConfigurator(API);

    @Test
    public void direct() throws Exception {
        // ... do your requests
    }
}
SSL

For tests using SSL-based services, you need to use activeSsl() on the JUnit4HttpApi rule.

You can access the client SSL socket factory through the API handler:

@ClassRule
public static final JUnit4HttpApi API = new JUnit4HttpApi().activeSsl();

@Test
public void test() throws Exception {
    final HttpsURLConnection connection = getHttpsConnection();
    connection.setSSLSocketFactory(API.getSslContext().getSocketFactory());
    // ....
}
Query Parameters

Sometimes the query parameters are sensitive and you don’t want to store them when capturing. In such cases, you can drop them from the captured data (.json) and the mock implementation will be able to match the request ignoring the query parameters.

JUnit 5

JUnit 5 uses a JUnit 5 extension based on the HttpApi annotation that you can add to your test class. You can inject the test handler - which has some utilities for advanced cases - through @HttpApiInject:

@HttpApi
class JUnit5HttpApiTest {
    @HttpApiInject
    private HttpApiHandler<?> handler;

    @Test
    void getProxy() throws Exception {
        // .... do your requests
    }
}
The injection is optional and the @HttpApi annotation allows you to configure several test behaviors.
SSL

For tests using SSL-based services, you need to use @HttpApi(useSsl = true).

You can access the client SSL socket factory through the API handler:

@HttpApi*(useSsl = true)*
class MyHttpsApiTest {
    @HttpApiInject
    private HttpApiHandler<?> handler;

    @Test
    void test() throws Exception {
        final HttpsURLConnection connection = getHttpsConnection();
        connection.setSSLSocketFactory(handler.getSslContext().getSocketFactory());
        // ....
    }
}
Capturing mode

The strength of this implementation is to run a small proxy server and to auto-configure the JVM: http[s].proxyHost, http[s].proxyPort, HttpsURLConnection#defaultSSLSocketFactory and SSLContext#default are auto-configured to work out-of-the-box with the proxy.

It allows you to keep the native and real URLs in your tests. For example, the following test is valid:

public class GoogleTest {
    @ClassRule
    public static final JUnit4HttpApi API = new JUnit4HttpApi();

    @Rule
    public final JUnit4HttpApiPerMethodConfigurator configurator = new JUnit4HttpApiPerMethodConfigurator(API);

    @Test
    public void google() throws Exception {
        assertEquals(HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK, get("https://google.fr?q=Talend"));
    }

    private int get(final String uri) throws Exception {
        // do the GET request, skipped for brievity
    }
}

If you execute this test, it fails with an HTTP 400 error because the proxy does not find the mocked response.
You can create it manually, as described in component-runtime-http-junit, but you can also set the talend.junit.http.capture property to the folder storing the captures. It must be the root folder and not the folder where the JSON files are located (not prefixed by talend/testing/http by default).

In most cases, use src/test/resources. If new File("src/test/resources") resolves the valid folder when executing your test (Maven default), then you can just set the system property to true. Otherwise, you need to adjust accordingly the system property value.

When set to false, the capture is enabled. Instead, captures are saved in a false/ directory.

When the tests run with this system property, the testing framework creates the correct mock response files. After that, you can remove the system property. The tests will still pass, using google.com, even if you disconnect your machine from the Internet.

Passthrough mode

If you set the talend.junit.http.passthrough system property to true, the server acts as a proxy and executes each request to the actual server - similarly to the capturing mode.

JUnit 5 and capture names

With its @ParameterizedTest, you can want to customize the name of the output file for JUnit 5 based captures/mocks. Concretely you want to ensure the replay of the same method with different data lead to different mock files. By default the framework will use the display name of the test to specialize it but it is not always very friendly. If you want some more advanced control over the name you can use @HttpApiName("myCapture.json") on the test method. To parameterize the name using @HttpApiName, you can use the placeholders ${class} and ${method} which represents the declaring class and method name, and ${displayName} which represents the method name.

Here is an example to use the same capture file for all repeated test:

@HttpApiName("${class}_${method}")
@RepeatedTest(5)
void run() throws Exception {
    // ...
}

And here, the same example but using different files for each repetition:

@HttpApiName("${class}_${method}_${displayName}")
@RepeatedTest(5)
void run() throws Exception {
    // ...
}

Beam testing

If you want to make sure that your component works in Beam and don’t want to use Spark, you can try with the Direct Runner.

Check beam.apache.org/contribute/testing/ for more details.

Testing on multiple environments

JUnit (4 or 5) already provides ways to parameterize tests and execute the same "test logic" against several sets of data. However, it is not very convenient for testing multiple environments.

For example, with Beam, you can test your code against multiple runners. But it requires resolving conflicts between runner dependencies, setting the correct classloaders, and so on.

To simplify such cases, the framework provides you a multi-environment support for your tests, through the JUnit module, which works with both JUnit 4 and JUnit 5.

JUnit 4

@RunWith(MultiEnvironmentsRunner.class)
@Environment(Env1.class)
@Environment(Env2.class)
public class TheTest {
    @Test
    public void test1() {
        // ...
    }
}

The MultiEnvironmentsRunner executes the tests for each defined environments. With the example above, it means that it runs test1 for Env1 and Env2.

By default, the JUnit4 runner is used to execute the tests in one environment, but you can use @DelegateRunWith to use another runner.

JUnit 5

The multi-environment configuration with JUnit 5 is similar to JUnit 4:

@Environment(EnvironmentsExtensionTest.E1.class)
@Environment(EnvironmentsExtensionTest.E2.class)
class TheTest {

    @EnvironmentalTest
    void test1() {
        // ...
    }
}

The main differences are that no runner is used because they do not exist in JUnit 5, and that you need to replace @Test by @EnvironmentalTest.

With JUnit5, tests are executed one after another for all environments, while tests are ran sequentially in each environments with JUnit 4. For example, this means that @BeforeAll and @AfterAll are executed once for all runners.

Provided environments

The provided environment sets the contextual classloader in order to load the related runner of Apache Beam.

Package: org.talend.sdk.component.junit.environment.builtin.beam

the configuration is read from system properties, environment variables, …​.
Contextual

_class: ContextualEnvironment.

Direct

_class: DirectRunnerEnvironment.

Flink

_class: FlinkRunnerEnvironment.

Spark

_class: SparkRunnerEnvironment.

Configuring environments

If the environment extends BaseEnvironmentProvider and therefore defines an environment name - which is the case of the default ones - you can use EnvironmentConfiguration to customize the system properties used for that environment:

@Environment(DirectRunnerEnvironment.class)
@EnvironmentConfiguration(
    environment = "Direct",
    systemProperties = @EnvironmentConfiguration.Property(key = "beamTestPipelineOptions", value = "..."))

@Environment(SparkRunnerEnvironment.class)
@EnvironmentConfiguration(
    environment = "Spark",
    systemProperties = @EnvironmentConfiguration.Property(key = "beamTestPipelineOptions", value = "..."))

@Environment(FlinkRunnerEnvironment.class)
@EnvironmentConfiguration(
    environment = "Flink",
    systemProperties = @EnvironmentConfiguration.Property(key = "beamTestPipelineOptions", value = "..."))
class MyBeamTest {

    @EnvironmentalTest
    void execute() {
        // run some pipeline
    }
}
If you set the <environment name>.skip system property to true, the environment-related executions are skipped.
Advanced usage

This usage assumes that Beam 2.4.0 or later is used.

The following dependencies bring the JUnit testing toolkit, the Beam integration and the multi-environment testing toolkit for JUnit into the test scope.

Dependencies:

<dependencies>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
    <artifactId>component-runtime-junit</artifactId>
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
    <artifactId>junit-jupiter-api</artifactId>
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.jboss.shrinkwrap.resolver</groupId>
    <artifactId>shrinkwrap-resolver-impl-maven</artifactId>
    <version>3.1.4</version>
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>
  <dependency>
    <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
    <artifactId>component-runtime-beam</artifactId>
    <scope>test</scope>
  </dependency>
</dependencies>

Using the fluent DSL to define jobs, you can write a test as follows:

Your job must be linear and each step must send a single value (no multi-input or multi-output).
@Environment(ContextualEnvironment.class)
@Environment(DirectRunnerEnvironment.class)
class TheComponentTest {
    @EnvironmentalTest
    void testWithStandaloneAndBeamEnvironments() {
        from("myfamily://in?config=xxxx")
            .to("myfamily://out")
            .create()
            .execute();
        // add asserts on the output if needed
    }
}

It executes the chain twice:

  1. With a standalone environment to simulate the Studio.

  2. With a Beam (direct runner) environment to ensure the portability of your job.

Secrets/Passwords and Maven

You can reuse Maven settings.xml server files, including the encrypted ones. org.talend.sdk.component.maven.MavenDecrypter allows yo to find a username/password from a server identifier:

final MavenDecrypter decrypter = new MavenDecrypter();
final Server decrypted = decrypter.find("my-test-server");
// decrypted.getUsername();
// decrypted.getPassword();

It is very useful to avoid storing secrets and to perform tests on real systems on a continuous integration platform.

Even if you do not use Maven on the platform, you can generate the settings.xml and`settings-security.xml` files to use that feature. See maven.apache.org/guides/mini/guide-encryption.html for more details.

Generating data

Several data generators exist if you want to populate objects with a semantic that is more evolved than a plain random string like commons-lang3:

Even more advanced, the following generators allow to directly bind generic data on a model. However, data quality is not always optimal:

There are two main kinds of implementation:

  • Implementations using a pattern and random generated data.

  • Implementations using a set of precomputed data extrapolated to create new values.

Check your use case to know which one fits best.

An alternative to data generation can be to import real data and use Talend Studio to sanitize the data, by removing sensitive information and replacing it with generated or anonymized data. Then you just need to inject that file into the system.

If you are using JUnit 5, you can have a look at glytching.github.io/junit-extensions/randomBeans.

Creating a job pipeline

Job Builder

The Job builder lets you create a job pipeline programmatically using Talend components (Producers and Processors). The job pipeline is an acyclic graph, allowing you to build complex pipelines.

Let’s take a simple use case where two data sources (employee and salary) are formatted to CSV and the result is written to a file.

A job is defined based on components (nodes) and links (edges) to connect their branches together.

Every component is defined by a unique id and an URI that identify the component.

The URI follows the form [family]://[component][?version][&configuration], where:

  • family is the name of the component family.

  • component is the name of the component.

  • version is the version of the component. It is represented in a key=value format. The key is __version and the value is a number.

  • configuration is component configuration. It is represented in a key=value format. The key is the path of the configuration and the value is a `string' corresponding to the configuration value.

URI example:

job://csvFileGen?__version=1&path=/temp/result.csv&encoding=utf-8"
configuration parameters must be URI/URL encoded.

Job example:

Job.components()   (1)
        .component("employee","db://input")
        .component("salary", "db://input")
        .component("concat", "transform://concat?separator=;")
        .component("csv", "file://out?__version=2")
    .connections()  (2)
        .from("employee").to("concat", "string1")
        .from("salary").to("concat", "string2")
        .from("concat").to("csv")
    .build()    (3)
    .run(); (4)
1 Defining all components used in the job pipeline.
2 Defining the connections between the components to construct the job pipeline. The links from/to use the component id and the default input/output branches.
You can also connect a specific branch of a component, if it has multiple or named input/output branches, using the methods from(id, branchName) and to(id, branchName).
In the example above, the concat component has two inputs ("string1" and "string2").
3 Validating the job pipeline by asserting that:
  • It has some starting components (components that don’t have a from connection and that need to be of the producer type).

  • There are no cyclic connections. The job pipeline needs to be an acyclic graph.

  • All components used in the connections are already declared.

  • Each connection is used only once. You cannot connect a component input/output branch twice.

4 Running the job pipeline.
In this version, the execution of the job is linear. Components are not executed in parallel even if some steps may be independents.
Environment/Runner

Depending on the configuration, you can select the environment which you execute your job in.

To select the environment, the logic is the following one:

  1. If an org.talend.sdk.component.runtime.manager.chain.Job.ExecutorBuilder class is passed through the job properties, then use it. The supported types are an ExecutionBuilder instance, a Class or a String.

  2. If an ExecutionBuilder SPI is present, use it. It is the case if component-runtime-beam is present in your classpath.

  3. Else, use a local/standalone execution.

In the case of a Beam execution, you can customize the pipeline options using system properties. They have to be prefixed with talend.beam.job.. For example, to set the appName option, you need to use -Dtalend.beam.job.appName=mytest.

Key Provider

The job builder lets you set a key provider to join your data when a component has multiple inputs. The key provider can be set contextually to a component or globally to the job.

Job.components()
        .component("employee","db://input")
            .property(GroupKeyProvider.class.getName(),
                 (GroupKeyProvider) context -> context.getData().getString("id")) (1)
        .component("salary", "db://input")
        .component("concat", "transform://concat?separator=;")
    .connections()
        .from("employee").to("concat", "string1")
        .from("salary").to("concat", "string2")
    .build()
    .property(GroupKeyProvider.class.getName(), (2)
                 (GroupKeyProvider) context -> context.getData().getString("employee_id"))
    .run();
1 Defining a key provider for the data produced by the employee component.
2 Defining a key provider for all data manipulated in the job.

If the incoming data has different IDs, you can provide a complex global key provider that relies on the context given by the component id and the branch name.

GroupKeyProvider keyProvider = context -> {
    if ("employee".equals(context.getComponentId())) {
        return context.getData().getString("id");
    }
    return context.getData().getString("employee_id");
};

Beam case

For Beam case, you need to rely on Beam pipeline definition and use the component-runtime-beam dependency, which provides Beam bridges.

Inputs and Outputs

org.talend.sdk.component.runtime.beam.TalendIO provides a way to convert a partition mapper or a processor to an input or processor using the read or write methods.

public class Main {
    public static void main(final String[] args) {
        final ComponentManager manager = ComponentManager.instance()
        Pipeline pipeline = Pipeline.create();
        //Create beam input from mapper and apply input to pipeline
        pipeline.apply(TalendIO.read(manager.findMapper(manager.findMapper("sample", "reader", 1, new HashMap<String, String>() {{
                    put("fileprefix", "input");
                }}).get()))
                .apply(new ViewsMappingTransform(emptyMap(), "sample")) // prepare it for the output record format (see next part)
        //Create beam processor from talend processor and apply to pipeline
                .apply(TalendIO.write(manager.findProcessor("test", "writer", 1, new HashMap<String, String>() {{
                    put("fileprefix", "output");
                }}).get(), emptyMap()));

        //... run pipeline
    }
}
Processors

org.talend.sdk.component.runtime.beam.TalendFn provides the way to wrap a processor in a Beam PTransform and to integrate it into the pipeline.

public class Main {
    public static void main(final String[] args) {
        //Component manager and pipeline initialization...

        //Create beam PTransform from processor and apply input to pipeline
        pipeline.apply(TalendFn.asFn(manager.findProcessor("sample", "mapper", 1, emptyMap())).get())), emptyMap());

        //... run pipeline
    }
}

The multiple inputs and outputs are represented by a Map element in Beam case to avoid using multiple inputs and outputs.

You can use ViewsMappingTransform or CoGroupByKeyResultMappingTransform to adapt the input/output format to the record format representing the multiple inputs/output, like Map<String, List<?>>, but materialized as a Record. Input data must be of the Record type in this case.
Converting a Beam.io into a component I/O

For simple inputs and outputs, you can get an automatic and transparent conversion of the Beam.io into an I/O component, if you decorated your PTransform with @PartitionMapper or @Processor.

However, there are limitations:

  • Inputs must implement PTransform<PBegin, PCollection<?>> and must be a BoundedSource.

  • Outputs must implement PTransform<PCollection<?>, PDone> and register a DoFn on the input PCollection.

For more information, see the How to wrap a Beam I/O page.

Defining services

Services are configurations that can be reused across several classes. Talend Component Kit comes with a predefined set of services that you can easily use.

You can still define your own services under the service node of your component project. By default, the Component Kit Starter generates a dedicated class in your project in which you can implement services.

Built-in services

The framework provides built-in services that you can inject by type in components and actions.

Lisf of built-in services

Type Description

org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.cache.LocalCache

Provides a small abstraction to cache data that does not need to be recomputed very often. Commonly used by actions for UI interactions.

org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.dependency.Resolver

Allows to resolve a dependency from its Maven coordinates. It can either try to resolve a local file or (better) creates for you a preinitialized classloader.

javax.json.bind.Jsonb

A JSON-B instance. If your model is static and you don’t want to handle the serialization manually using JSON-P, you can inject that instance.

javax.json.spi.JsonProvider

A JSON-P instance. Prefer other JSON-P instances if you don’t exactly know why you use this one.

javax.json.JsonBuilderFactory

A JSON-P instance. It is recommended to use this one instead of a custom one to optimize memory usage and speed.

javax.json.JsonWriterFactory

A JSON-P instance. It is recommended to use this one instead of a custom one to optimize memory usage and speed.

javax.json.JsonReaderFactory

A JSON-P instance. It is recommended to use this one instead of a custom one to optimize memory usage and speed.

javax.json.stream.JsonParserFactory

A JSON-P instance. It is recommended to use this one instead of a custom one to optimize memory usage and speed.

javax.json.stream.JsonGeneratorFactory

A JSON-P instance. It is recommended to use this one instead of a custom one to optimize memory usage and speed.

org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.dependency.Resolver

Allows to resolve files from Maven coordinates (like dependencies.txt for component). Note that it assumes that the files are available in the component Maven repository.

org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.injector.Injector

Utility to inject services in fields marked with @Service.

org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.factory.ObjectFactory

Allows to instantiate an object from its class name and properties.

org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.record.RecordBuilderFactory

Allows to instantiate a record.

org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.record.RecordPointerFactory

Allows to instantiate a RecordPointer which enables to extract a data from a Record based on jsonpointer specification.

org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.record.RecordService

Some utilities to create records from another one. It is typically what is used when you want to add an entry in a record and passthrough the other ones. It also provides a nice RecordVisitor API for advanced cases.

org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.configuration.LocalConfiguration

Represents the local configuration that can be used during the design.

It is not recommended to use it for the runtime because the local configuration is usually different and the instances are distinct.

You can also use the local cache as an interceptor with @Cached

Every interface that extends HttpClient and that contains methods annotated with @Request

Lets you define an HTTP client in a declarative manner using an annotated interface.

See the Using HttpClient for more details.

All these injected services are serializable, which is important for big data environments. If you create the instances yourself, you cannot benefit from these features, nor from the memory optimization done by the runtime. Prefer reusing the framework instances over custom ones.
LocalConfiguration

The local configuration uses system properties and the environment (replacing dots per underscores) to look up the values. You can also put a TALEND-INF/local-configuration.properties file with default values. This allows to use the local_configuration:<key> syntax in @Ui annotation. Here is an example to read the default value of a property from the configuration:

@Option
@DefaultValue("local_configuration:myfamily.model.key")
private String value;
Ensure your key is unique across all components to avoid global overrides on the JVM. In practice, it is strongly recommended to always use the family as a prefix.
Also note that you can use @Configuration("prefix") to inject a mapping of the LocalConfiguration in a component. It uses the same rules as for any configuration object. If you prefer to inject you configuration in a service, ensure to wrap it in a Supplier to always have an up to date version.

If you want to ignore the local-configuration.properties, you can set the system property: talend.component.configuration.${componentPluginId}.ignoreLocalConfiguration=true.

Here a sample @Configuration model:

@Data // from lombok, optional
public class MyConfig {
  @Option
  private String defaultUrl;
}

Here is how to use it from a service:

@Service
public class ConfiguredService {
  @Configuration("myprefix")
  private Supplier<MyConfig> config;
}

And finally, here is how to use it in a component:

@Service
public class ConfiguredComponent {
  public ConfiguredComponent(@Configuration("myprefix") final MyConfig config) {
    // ...
  }
}
it is recommended to convert this configuration in a runtime model in components to avoid to transport more than desired during the job distribution.

Using HttpClient

You can access the API reference in the Javadocs.

The HttpClient usage is described in this section by using the REST API example below. Assuming that it requires a basic authentication header:

GET /api/records/{id}

-

POST /api/records

JSON payload to be created: {"id":"some id", "data":"some data"}

To create an HTTP client that is able to consume the REST API above, you need to define an interface that extends HttpClient.

The HttpClient interface lets you set the base for the HTTP address that the client will hit.

The base is the part of the address that needs to be added to the request path to hit the API. It is now possible, and recommended, to use @Base annotation.

Every method annotated with @Request in the interface defines an HTTP request. Every request can have a @Codec parameter that allows to encode or decode the request/response payloads.

You can ignore the encoding/decoding for String and Void payloads.
public interface APIClient extends HttpClient {
    @Request(path = "api/records/{id}", method = "GET")
    @Codec(decoder = RecordDecoder.class) //decoder =  decode returned data to Record class
    Record getRecord(@Header("Authorization") String basicAuth, @Path("id") int id);

    /** same with base as parameter */
    @Request(path = "api/records/{id}", method = "GET")
    @Codec(decoder = RecordDecoder.class) //decoder =  decode returned data to Record class
    Record getRecord(@Header("Authorization") String basicAuth, @Base String base, @Path("id") int id);

    @Request(path = "api/records", method = "POST")
    @Codec(encoder = RecordEncoder.class, decoder = RecordDecoder.class) //encoder = encode record to fit request format (json in this example)
    Record createRecord(@Header("Authorization") String basicAuth, Record record);
}
The interface should extend HttpClient.

In the codec classes (that implement Encoder/Decoder), you can inject any of your service annotated with @Service or @Internationalized into the constructor. Internationalization services can be useful to have internationalized messages for errors handling.

The interface can be injected into component classes or services to consume the defined API.

@Service
public class MyService {

    private APIClient client;

    public MyService(...,APIClient client){
        //...
        this.client = client;
        client.base("http://localhost:8080");// init the base of the api, often in a PostConstruct or init method
    }

    //...
    // Our get request
    Record rec =  client.getRecord("Basic MLFKG?VKFJ", 100);
    // or
    Record rec1 =  client.getRecord("Basic MLFKG?VKFJ", "http://localhost:8080", 100);

    //...
    // Our post request
    Record newRecord = client.createRecord("Basic MLFKG?VKFJ", new Record());
}
By default, /+json are mapped to JSON-P and /+xml to JAX-B if the model has a @XmlRootElement annotation.
Customizing HTTP client requests

For advanced cases, you can customize the Connection by directly using @UseConfigurer on the method. It calls your custom instance of Configurer. Note that you can use @ConfigurerOption in the method signature to pass some Configurer configurations.

For example, if you have the following Configurer:

public class BasicConfigurer implements Configurer {
    @Override
    public void configure(final Connection connection, final ConfigurerConfiguration configuration) {
        final String user = configuration.get("username", String.class);
        final String pwd = configuration.get("password", String.class);
        connection.withHeader(
            "Authorization",
            Base64.getEncoder().encodeToString((user + ':' + pwd).getBytes(StandardCharsets.UTF_8)));
    }
}

You can then set it on a method to automatically add the basic header with this kind of API usage:

public interface APIClient extends HttpClient {
    @Request(path = "...")
    @UseConfigurer(BasicConfigurer.class)
    Record findRecord(@ConfigurerOption("username") String user, @ConfigurerOption("password") String pwd);
}
Built-In configurer

The framework provides in the component-api an OAuth1.Configurer which can be used as an example of configurer implementation. It expects a single OAuth1.Configuration parameter to be passed to the request as a @ConfigurationOption.

Here is a sample showing how it can be used:

public interface OAuth1Client extends HttpClient {
    @Request(path = "/oauth1")
    @UseConfigurer(OAuth1.Configurer.class)
    String get(@ConfigurerOption("oauth1") final OAuth1.Configuration configuration);
}
Big data streams

By default, the client loads in memory the payload. In case of big payloads, it can consume too much memory. For these cases, you can get the payload as an InputStream:

public interface APIClient extends HttpClient {
    @Request(path = "/big/http/data")
    InputStream getData();
}
You can use the Response wrapper, or not.

Internationalizing services

Internationalization requires following several best practices:

  • Storing messages using ResourceBundle properties file in your component module.

  • The location of the properties is in the same package than the related components and is named Messages. For example, org.talend.demo.MyComponent uses org.talend.demo.Messages[locale].properties.

  • Use the internationalization API for your own messages.

Internationalization API

The Internationalization API is the mechanism to use to internationalize your own messages in your own components.

The principle of the API is to design messages as methods returning String values and get back a template using a ResourceBundle named Messages and located in the same package than the interface that defines these methods.

To ensure your internationalization API is identified, you need to mark it with the @Internationalized annotation:

package org.superbiz;

@Internationalized (1)
public interface Translator {

    String message();

    String templatizedMessage(String arg0, int arg1); (2)

    String localized(String arg0, @Language Locale locale); (3)

    String localized(String arg0, @Language String locale); (4)
}
1 @Internationalized allows to mark a class as an internationalized service.
2 You can pass parameters. The message uses the MessageFormat syntax to be resolved, based on the ResourceBundle template.
3 You can use @Language on a Locale parameter to specify manually the locale to use. Note that a single value is used (the first parameter tagged as such).
4 @Language also supports the String type.

The corresponding Messages.properties placed in the org/superbiz resource folder contains the following:

org.superbiz.Translator.message = Some message
org.superbiz.Translator.templatizedMessage = Some message with string {0} and with number {1}
org.superbiz.Translator.localized = Some other message with string {0}

# or the short version

Translator.message = Some message
Translator.templatizedMessage = Some message with string {0} and with number {1}
Translator.localized = Some other message with string {0}

Providing actions for consumers

In some cases you can need to add some actions that are not related to the runtime. For example, enabling users of the plugin/library to test if a connection works properly.

To do so, you need to define an @Action, which is a method with a name (representing the event name), in a class decorated with @Service:

@Service
public class MyDbTester {
    @Action(family = "mycomp", value = "test")
    public Status doTest(final IncomingData data) {
        return ...;
    }
}
Services are singleton. If you need some thread safety, make sure that they match that requirement. Services should not store any status either because they can be serialized at any time. Status are held by the component.

Services can be used in components as well (matched by type). They allow to reuse some shared logic, like a client. Here is a sample with a service used to access files:

@Emitter(family = "sample", name = "reader")
public class PersonReader implements Serializable {
    // attributes skipped to be concise

    public PersonReader(@Option("file") final File file,
                        final FileService service) {
        this.file = file;
        this.service = service;
    }

    // use the service
    @PostConstruct
    public void open() throws FileNotFoundException {
        reader = service.createInput(file);
    }

}

The service is automatically passed to the constructor. It can be used as a bean. In that case, it is only necessary to call the service method.

Particular action types

Some common actions need a clear contract so they are defined as API first-class citizen. For example, this is the case for wizards or health checks. Here is the list of the available actions:

Close Connection

Mark an action works for closing runtime connection, returning a close helper object which do real close action. The functionality is for the Studio only, studio will use the close object to close connection for existed connection, and no effect for cloud platform.

  • Type: close_connection

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.connection.CloseConnection

  • Returned type: org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.connection.CloseConnectionObject

  • Sample:

{
 "connection": "..."
}
Create Connection

Mark an action works for creating runtime connection, returning a runtime connection object like jdbc connection if database family. Its parameter MUST be a datastore. Datastore is configuration type annotated with @DataStore. The functionality is for the Studio only, studio will use the runtime connection object when use existed connection, and no effect for cloud platform.

  • Type: create_connection

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.connection.CreateConnection

Discoverdataset

This class marks an action that explore a connection to retrieve potential datasets.

  • Type: discoverdataset

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.discovery.DiscoverDataset

  • Returned type: org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.discovery.DiscoverDatasetResult

  • Sample:

{
 "datasetDescriptionList": "..."
}
Dynamic Dependencies

Mark a method as returning a list of dynamic dependencies with GAV formatting.

  • Type: dynamic_dependencies

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.dependency.DynamicDependencies

  • Returned type: java.util.List

  • Sample:

{

}
Dynamic Values

Mark a method as being useful to fill potential values of a string option for a property denoted by its value. You can link a field as being completable using @Proposable(value). The resolution of the completion action is then done through the component family and value of the action. The callback doesn’t take any parameter.

  • Type: dynamic_values

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.completion.DynamicValues

  • Returned type: org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.completion.Values

  • Sample:

{
  "items":[
    {
      "id":"value",
      "label":"label"
    }
  ]
}
Healthcheck

This class marks an action doing a connection test

  • Type: healthcheck

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.healthcheck.HealthCheck

  • Returned type: org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.healthcheck.HealthCheckStatus

  • Sample:

{
  "comment":"Something went wrong",
  "status":"KO"
}
Schema

Mark an action as returning a discovered schema. Its parameter MUST be a dataset. Dataset is configuration type annotated with @DataSet. If component has multiple datasets, then dataset used as action parameter should have the same identifier as this @DiscoverSchema.

  • Type: schema

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.schema.DiscoverSchema

  • Returned type: org.talend.sdk.component.api.record.Schema

  • Sample:

{
  "entries":[
    {
      "comment":"The column 1",
      "metadata":false,
      "name":"column1",
      "nullable":false,
      "props":{

      },
      "rawName":"column 1",
      "type":"STRING"
    },
    {
      "comment":"The int column",
      "metadata":false,
      "name":"column2",
      "nullable":false,
      "props":{

      },
      "rawName":"column 2",
      "type":"INT"
    }
  ],
  "metadata":[
  ],
  "props":{
    "talend.fields.order":"column1,column2"
  },
  "type":"RECORD"
}
Schema Extended

Mark a method as returning a Schema resulting from a connector configuration and some other parameters.Parameters can be an incoming schema and/or an outgoing branch.`value' name should match the connector’s name.

  • Type: schema_extended

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.schema.DiscoverSchemaExtended

  • Returned type: org.talend.sdk.component.api.record.Schema

  • Sample:

{
  "entries":[
    {
      "comment":"The column 1",
      "metadata":false,
      "name":"column1",
      "nullable":false,
      "props":{

      },
      "rawName":"column 1",
      "type":"STRING"
    },
    {
      "comment":"The int column",
      "metadata":false,
      "name":"column2",
      "nullable":false,
      "props":{

      },
      "rawName":"column 2",
      "type":"INT"
    }
  ],
  "metadata":[
  ],
  "props":{
    "talend.fields.order":"column1,column2"
  },
  "type":"RECORD"
}
Suggestions

Mark a method as being useful to fill potential values of a string option. You can link a field as being completable using @Suggestable(value). The resolution of the completion action is then done when the user requests it (generally by clicking on a button or entering the field depending the environment).

  • Type: suggestions

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.completion.Suggestions

  • Returned type: org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.completion.SuggestionValues

  • Sample:

{
  "cacheable":false,
  "items":[
    {
      "id":"value",
      "label":"label"
    }
  ]
}
Update

This class marks an action returning a new instance replacing part of a form/configuration.

  • Type: update

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.update.Update

User

Extension point for custom UI integrations and custom actions.

  • Type: user

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.Action

Validation

Mark a method as being used to validate a configuration.

this is a server validation so only use it if you can’t use other client side validation to implement it.
  • Type: validation

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.asyncvalidation.AsyncValidation

  • Returned type: org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.asyncvalidation.ValidationResult

  • Sample:

{
  "comment":"Something went wrong",
  "status":"KO"
}
Built In Actions

These actions are provided - or not - by the application the UI runs within.

always ensure you don’t require this action in your component.
built_in_suggestable

Mark the decorated field as supporting suggestions, i.e. dynamically get a list of valid values the user can use. It is however different from @Suggestable by looking up the implementation in the current application and not the services. Finally, it is important to note that it can do nothing in some environments too and that there is no guarantee the specified action is supported.

  • API: @org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.action.BuiltInSuggestable

Internationalization

Internationalization is supported through the injection of the $lang parameter, which allows you to get the correct locale to use with an @Internationalized service:

public SuggestionValues findSuggestions(@Option("someParameter") final String param,
                                        @Option("$lang") final String lang) {
    return ...;
}
You can combine the $lang option with the @Internationalized and @Language parameters.

Services and interceptors

For common concerns such as caching, auditing, and so on, you can use an interceptor-like API. It is enabled on services by the framework.

An interceptor defines an annotation marked with @Intercepts, which defines the implementation of the interceptor (InterceptorHandler).

For example:

@Intercepts(LoggingHandler.class)
@Target({ TYPE, METHOD })
@Retention(RUNTIME)
public @interface Logged {
    String value();
}

The handler is created from its constructor and can take service injections (by type). The first parameter, however, can be BiFunction<Method, Object[], Object>, which represents the invocation chain if your interceptor can be used with others.

If you make a generic interceptor, pass the invoker as first parameter. Otherwise you cannot combine interceptors at all.

Here is an example of interceptor implementation for the @Logged API:

public class LoggingHandler implements InterceptorHandler {
    // injected
    private final BiFunction<Method, Object[], Object> invoker;
    private final SomeService service;

    // internal
    private final ConcurrentMap<Method, String> loggerNames = new ConcurrentHashMap<>();

    public CacheHandler(final BiFunction<Method, Object[], Object> invoker, final SomeService service) {
        this.invoker = invoker;
        this.service = service;
    }

    @Override
    public Object invoke(final Method method, final Object[] args) {
        final String name = loggerNames.computeIfAbsent(method, m -> findAnnotation(m, Logged.class).get().value());
        service.getLogger(name).info("Invoking {}", method.getName());
        return invoker.apply(method, args);
    }
}

This implementation is compatible with interceptor chains because it takes the invoker as first constructor parameter and it also takes a service injection. Then, the implementation simply does what is needed, which is logging the invoked method in this case.

The findAnnotation annotation, inherited from InterceptorHandler, is an utility method to find an annotation on a method or class (in this order).

Defining a custom API

It is possible to extend the Component API for custom front features.

What is important here is to keep in mind that you should do it only if it targets not portable components (only used by the Studio or Beam).

It is recommended to create a custom xxxx-component-api module with the new set of annotations.

Extending the UI

To extend the UI, add an annotation that can be put on @Option fields, and that is decorated with @Ui. All its members are then put in the metadata of the parameter. For example:

@Ui
@Target(TYPE)
@Retention(RUNTIME)
public @interface MyLayout {
}

Integrating components into Talend Studio

To be able to see and use your newly developed components, you need to integrate them to the right application.

Currently, you can deploy your components to Talend Studio as part of your development process to iterate on them:

You can also share your components externally and install them using a component archive (.car) file.

Check the versions of the framework that are compatible with your version of Talend Studio in this document.

If you were used to create custom components with the Javajet framework and want to get to know the new approach and main differences of the Component Kit framework, refer to this document.

Version compatibility

You can integrate and start using components developed using Talend Component Kit in Talend applications very easily.

As both the development framework and Talend applications evolve over time, you need to ensure compatibility between the components you develop and the versions of Talend applications that you are targeting, by making sure that you use the right version of Talend Component Kit.

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Compatibility matrix

The version of Talend Component Kit you need to use to develop new components depends on the versions of the Talend applications in which these components will be integrated.

Talend product Talend Component Kit version

Talend Studio 8.8.8 (aka master)

latest release

Talend Studio 8.0.1

latest release QA approved

Talend Studio 7.3.1

Framework until 1.38.x

Talend Studio 7.2.1

Framework until 1.1.10

Talend Studio 7.1.1

Framework until 1.1.1

Talend Studio 7.0.1

Framework until 0.0.5

Talend Cloud

latest release QA and cloud teams approved

More recent versions of Talend Component Kit contain many fixes, improvements and features that help developing your components. However, they can cause some compatibility issues when deploying these components to older/different versions of Talend Studio and Talend Cloud. Choose the version of Talend Component Kit that best fits your needs.

Changing the Talend Component Kit version of your project

Creating a project using the Component Kit Starter always uses the latest release of Talend Component Kit.

However, you can manually change the version of Talend Component Kit directly in the generated project.

  1. Go to your IDE and access the project root .pom file.

  2. Look for the org.talend.sdk.component dependency nodes.

  3. Replace the version in the relevant nodes with the version that you need to use for your project.

You can use a Snapshot of the version under development using the -SNAPSHOT version and Sonatype snapshot repository.

Iterating on component development with Talend Studio

Integrate components you developed using Talend Component Kit to Talend Studio in a few steps. Also learn how to enable the developer and debugging modes to iterate on your component development.

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Version compatibility

The version of Talend Component Kit you need to use to develop new components depends on the version of Talend Studio in which components will be integrated.

Refer to this document to learn about compatibility between Talend Component Kit and the different versions of Talend applications.

Installing the components

Learn how to build and deploy components to Talend Studio using Maven or Gradle Talend Component Kit plugins.

This can be done using the deploy-in-studio goal from your development environment.

If you are unfamiliar with component development, you can also follow this example to go through the entire process, from creating a project to using your new component in Talend Studio.

Configuring the component server

The Studio integration relies on the Component Server, that the Studio uses to gather data about components created using Talend Component Kit.

You can change the default configuration of component server by modifying the $STUDIO_HOME/configuration/config.ini file.

The following parameters are available:

Name Description Default

component.environment

Enables the developer mode when set to dev

-

component.debounce.timeout

Specifies the timeout (in milliseconds) before calling listeners in components Text fields

750

component.kit.skip

If set to true, the plugin is not enabled. It is useful if you don’t have any component developed with the framework.

false

component.java.arguments

Component server additional options

-

component.java.m2

Maven repository that the server uses to resolve components

Defaults to the global Studio configuration

component.java.coordinates

A list of comma-separated GAV (groupId:artifactId:version) of components to register

-

component.java.registry

A properties file with values matching component GAV (groupId:artifactId:version) registered at startup. Only use slashes (even on windows) in the path.

-

component.java.port

Sets the port to use for the server

random

component.server.extensions

A comma separated list of gav to locate the extensions.

-

components.server.beam.active

Active, if set to true, Beam support (Experimental). It requires Beam SDK Java core dependencies to be available.

false

component.server.jul.forceConsole

Adds a console handler to JUL to see logs in the console. This can be helpful in development because the formatting is clearer than the OSGi one in workspace/.metadata/.log.

It uses the java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format property to define its format. By default, it is %1$tb %1$td, %1$tY %1$tl:%1$tM:%1$tS %1$Tp %2$s%n%4$s: %5$s%6$s%n, but for development purposes [%4$s] %5$s%6$s%n is simpler and more readable.

false

Here is an example of a common developer configuration/config.ini file:

# use local .m2 instead of embedded studio one
maven.repository = global

# during development, see developer model part
component.environment = dev

# log into the console the component interactions - optional
component.server.jul.forceConsole = true
java.util.logging.SimpleFormatter.format = [%4$s] %5$s%6$s%n
Enabling the developer mode

The developer mode is especially useful to iterate on your component development and to avoid closing and restarting Talend Studio every time you make a change to a component. It adds a Talend Component Kit button in the main toolbar:

Studio Reload Button

When clicking this button, all components developed with the Talend Component Kit framework are reloaded. The cache is invalidated and the components refreshed.

You still need to add and remove the components to see the changes.

To enable it, simply set the component.environment parameter to dev in the config.ini configuration file of the component server.

Debugging your custom component in Talend Studio

Several methods allow you to debug custom components created with Talend Component Kit in Talend Studio.

Debugging the runtime or the Guess schema option of a component
  1. From your development tool, create a new Remote configuration, and copy the Command line arguments for running remote JVM field. For example, -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=*:5005, where:

    • the suspend parameter of the -agentlib argument specifies whether you want to suspend the debugged JVM until the debugger attaches to it. Possible values are n (no, default value) or y (yes).

    • the address parameter of the -agentlib argument is the port used for the remote configuration. Make sure this port is available.

      IntelliJ remote configuration
  2. Open Talend Studio.

  3. Create a new Job that uses the component you want to debug or open an existing one that already uses it.

  4. Go to the Run tab of the Job and select Use specific JVM arguments.

  5. Click New to add an argument.

  6. In the popup window, paste the arguments copied from the IDE.

    IntelliJ remote configuration
  7. Enter the corresponding debug mode:

    • To debug the runtime, run the Job and access the remote host configured in the IDE.

    • To debug the Guess schema option, click the Guess schema action button of the component and access the remote host configured in the IDE.

Debugging UI actions and validations
  1. From your development tool, create a new Remote configuration, and copy the Command line arguments for running remote JVM field. For example, -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=*:5005, where:

    • suspend defines whether you need to access the defined configuration to run the remote JVM. Possible values are n (no, default value) or y (yes).

    • address is the port used for the remote configuration. Make sure this port is available.

      IntelliJ remote configuration
  2. Access the installation directory of your Talend Sutdio.

  3. Open the .ini file corresponding to your Operating System. For example, TOS_DI-win-x86_64.ini.

  4. Paste the arguments copied from the IDE in a new line of the file.

    IntelliJ remote configuration
  5. Go to Talend Studio to use the component, and access the host host configured in the IDE.

Random port when running concurrent studio instances

If you run multiple Studio instances automatically in parallel, you can run into some issues with the random port computation. For example on a CI platform. For that purpose, you can create the $HOME/.talend/locks/org.talend.sdk.component.studio-integration.lock file.

Then, when a server starts, it acquires a lock on that file and prevents another server to get a port until it is started. It ensures that you can’t have two concurrent processes getting the same port allocated.

However, it is highly unlikely to happen on a desktop. In that case, forcing a different value through component.java.port in your config.ini file is a better solution for local installations.

Installing components using a CAR file

Components built using Talend Component Kit can be shared as component archives (.car). These CAR files are executable files allowing to easily deploy the components it contains to any compatible version of Talend Studio.

Component developers can generate .car files from their projects to share their components and make them available for other users, as detailed in this document.

This document assumes that you have a component archive (.car) file and need to deploy it to Talend Studio.

Deploying from the CAR file to Talend Studio

The component archive (.car) is executable and exposes the studio-deploy command which takes a Talend Studio home path as parameter. When executed, it installs the dependencies into the Studio and registers the component in your instance. For example:

# for a studio
java -jar mycomponent.car studio-deploy /path/to/my/studio
or
java -jar mycomponent.car studio-deploy --location /path/to/my/studio

# for a m2 provisioning
java -jar mycomponent.car maven-deploy /path/to/.m2/repository
or
java -jar mycomponent.car maven-deploy --location /path/to/.m2/repository

You can also upload the dependencies to your Nexus server using the following command:

java -jar mycomponent.car deploy-to-nexus --url <nexus url> --repo <repository name> --user <username> --pass <password> --threads <parallel threads number> --dir <temp directory>

In this command, Nexus URL and repository name are mandatory arguments. All other arguments are optional. If arguments contain spaces or special symbols, you need to quote the whole value of the argument. For example:

--pass "Y0u will \ not G4iess i' ^"

Deploying a component archive to a remote project from Talend Studio

Talend Studio allows you to share components you have created using Talend Component Kit to other users working on the same remote project.

Remote projects are available with Enterprise versions of Talend Studio only. Also, note that this feature has been removed in Studio since 7.3 release.

Make sure you are connected to a remote project and the artifact repository for component sharing has been properly configured.

  1. On the toolbar of the Studio main window, click or click File > Edit Project Properties from the menu bar to open the Project Settings dialog box.

  2. In the tree view of the dialog box, select Repository Share to open the corresponding view.

  3. Select the Propagate components update to Artifact Repository check box.

  4. In the Repository ID field, specify the artifact repository configured for component sharing, and then click Check connection to verify the connectivity.

  5. Click Apply and Close to validate the settings and close the dialog box.

  6. Create a folder named patches at the root of your Talend Studio installation directory, then copy the .car files of the components you want share to this folder.

  7. Restart your Talend Studio and connect to the remote project.

The components are deployed automatically to the repository and available in the Palette for other users when connected to a remote project with the same sharing repository configuration.

Troubleshooting

My custom component builds correctly but does not appear in Talend Studio, how to fix it? This issue can be caused by the icon specified in the component metadata.

  • Make sure to specify a custom icon for the component and the component family.

  • These custom icons must be in PNG format to be properly handled by Talend Studio.

  • Remove SVG parameters from the talend.component.server.icon.paths property in the HTTP server configuration. Refer to this section.

Learn more about defining custom icons for components in this document.

From Javajet to Talend Component Kit

From the version 7.0 of Talend Studio, Talend Component Kit becomes the recommended framework to use to develop components.

This framework is being introduced to ensure that newly developed components can be deployed and executed both in on-premise/local and cloud/big data environments.

From that new approach comes the need to provide a complete yet unique and compatible way of developing components.

With the Component Kit, custom components are entirely implemented in Java. To help you get started with a new custom component development project, a Starter is available. Using it, you will be able to generate the skeleton of your project. By importing this skeleton in a development tool, you can then implement the components layout and execution logic in Java.

Defining the component configuration

With the previous Javajet framework, metadata, widgets and configurable parts of a custom component were specified in XML. With the Component Kit, they are now defined in the <component_name><component_type>Configuration (for example, LoggerProcessorConfiguration) Java class of your development project.

Note that most of this configuration is transparent if you specified the Configuration Model of your components right before generating the project from the Starter.

Any undocumented feature or option is considered not supported by the Component Kit framework.

You can find examples of output in Studio or Cloud environments in the Gallery.

Widgets
Input/Text

Javajet

<PARAMETER
    NAME="CONFIG"
    FIELD="TEXT"
    NUM_ROW="10">
        <DEFAULT>""</DEFAULT>
</PARAMETER>

Component Kit

@Option
String config;
Password

Javajet

<PARAMETER
    NAME="PASSWORD"
    FIELD="PASSWORD"
    NUM_ROW="10"
    REQUIRED="true">

Component Kit

@Option
@Credential
String password;
Textarea

Javajet

<PARAMETER NAME="QUERY"
    FIELD="MEMO"
    NUM_ROW="1">
        <DEFAULT>""</DEFAULT>
</PARAMETER>

Component Kit

@Option
@Textarea
String query;
Integer

Javajet

<!-- There were no specific widget for number fields -->
<PARAMETER
    NAME="CONFIG"
    FIELD="TEXT"
    NUM_ROW="10">
        <DEFAULT>""</DEFAULT>
</PARAMETER>

Component Kit

@Option
@Documentation("This is a number")
public Integer number;
Checkbox

Javajet

<PARAMETER
    NAME="PRETTY_FORMAT"
    FIELD="CHECK"
    NUM_ROW="10">
        <DEFAULT>false</DEFAULT>
</PARAMETER>

Component Kit

@Option
Boolean pretty_format;
List

Javajet

<PARAMETER
    NAME="ACTION"
    FIELD="CLOSED_LIST"
    NUM_ROW="10">
    <ITEMS DEFAULT="1">
        <ITEM NAME="DELETE" VALUE="1" />
        <ITEM NAME="INSERT" VALUE="2" />
        <ITEM NAME="UPDATE" VALUE="3" />
    </ITEMS>
</PARAMETER>

Component Kit

@Option
@Proposable("valuesProvider")
String action;
/** service class */
@DynamicValues("valuesProvider")
public Values actions(){
  return new Values(asList(new Values.Item("1", "Delete"),
                    new Values.Item("2", "Insert"),
                    new Values.Item("3", "Update")));
}

or

Component Kit

@Option
ActionEnum action;

/** Define enum */
enum ActionEnum {
    Delete,
    Insert,
    Update
}
Suggestions

Javajet

<!-- There were no simple way to load proposals from service in javajet -->

Component Kit

@Option
@Suggestable(value = "loadModules", parameters = { "myconfig" })
@Documentation("module names are loaded using service")
public String moduleName;


// In Service class
@Suggestions("loadModules")
public SuggestionValues loadModules(@Option final MyConfig myconfig) { }
Table

Javajet

<!-- There were no simple way to select complex objects in javajet -->

Component Kit

@Option
List<MyObject> config;
Module List

Javajet

<PARAMETER NAME="DRIVER_JAR" FIELD="TABLE" NUM_ROW="3" NB_LINES="2" REQUIRED="true">
    <ITEMS>
        <ITEM NAME="JAR_NAME" FIELD="MODULE_LIST"  />
    </ITEMS>
</PARAMETER>

Component Kit

public class Driver implements Serializable {

    @ModuleList
    @Option
    private String path;

}

//define it in config class like this:
@Option
List<Driver> config;
Code

Javajet

<PARAMETERS>
    <PARAMETER NAME="CODE" FIELD="MEMO_JAVA" RAW="true" REQUIRED="false" NUM_ROW="10" NB_LINES="10">
        <DEFAULT>String foo = "bar";</DEFAULT>
    </PARAMETER>
</PARAMETERS>

Component Kit

@Code("java")
@Option
String code;
Schema

Javajet

<PARAMETER
    NAME="COLUMNS"
    FIELD="COLUMN_LIST"
    NUM_ROW="10"/>

Component Kit

@Option
@Structure
List<String> columns;
Validations
Property validation

Javajet

<!-- There were no url pattern validation in javajet -->

Component Kit

/** configuration class */
@Option
@Validable("url")
String config;

/** service class */
@AsyncValidation("url")
ValidationResult doValidate(String url) {
//validate the property
}
Property validation with Pattern

Javajet

<!-- There were no regex validation in javajet -->

Component Kit

/** configuration class */
@Option
@Pattern("/^[a-zA-Z\\-]+$/")
String username;
Data store validation

Javajet

<!-- There were no healthcheck javajet -->

Component Kit

@Datastore
@Checkable
public class config {
/** config ...*/
}

/** service class */
@HealthCheck
public HealthCheckStatus testConnection(){

//validate the connection
}
Binding properties
ActiveIf

Javajet

<PARAMETER
    NAME="AUTH_TYPE"
    FIELD="CLOSED_LIST"
    NUM_ROW="10">
    <ITEMS DEFAULT="NOAUTH">
        <ITEM NAME="NOAUTH" VALUE="NOAUTH" />
        <ITEM NAME="BASIC" VALUE="BASIC" />
        <ITEM NAME="BASIC" VALUE="OAUTH2" />
    </ITEMS>
</PARAMETER>

<PARAMETER
    NAME="LOGIN"
    FIELD="TEXT"
    NUM_ROW="20"
    SHOW_IF="AUTH_TYPE == 'BASIC'">
        <DEFAULT>"login"</DEFAULT>
</PARAMETER>

<PARAMETER
    NAME="LOGIN"
    FIELD="PASSWORD"
    NUM_ROW="20"
    SHOW_IF="AUTH_TYPE='BASIC'">
        <DEFAULT>"login"</DEFAULT>
</PARAMETER>

Component Kit

 enum AuthorizationType {
        NoAuth,
        Basic,
        oauth2
}

@Option
@Required
@Documentation("")
private AuthorizationType type = AuthorizationType.NoAuth;

@Option
@required
@ActiveIf(target = "type", value = "Basic")
@Documentation("Username for the basic authentication")
private String login;

@Option
@required
@credential
@ActiveIf(target = "type", value = "Basic")
@Documentation("password for the basic authentication")
private String password;
Return Variables
Return variables availability (1.51+) deprecates After Variables.

Javajet

<RETURNS>
    <RETURN NAME="QUERY" TYPE="id_String" AVAILABILITY="FLOW"/>
    <RETURN NAME="NAME_1_OF_AFTER_VARIABLE" TYPE="id_Integer" AVAILABILITY="AFTER"/>
</RETURNS>

AVAILABILITY can be :

  • AFTER : set after component finished.

  • FLOW : changed on row level.

Component Kit

@Slf4j
@Version(1)
@ReturnVariable(value = "QUERY", availability = FLOW, type = String.class, description = "Current row query")
@Processor(name = "Row")
@Documentation("JDBC Row component.")
public class JDBCRowProcessor implements Serializable {

    @RuntimeContext
    private transient RuntimeContextHolder context;

    @ElementListener
    public void elementListener(@Input final Record record,
                                @Output final OutputEmitter<Record> success) throws SQLException {
        ...

        if (context != null) {
            context.set("QUERY", configuration.getDataSet().getSqlQuery());
        }
    }
}

Return variables can be nested as below:

import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.ReturnVariables;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.ReturnVariables.ReturnVariable;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.processor.Processor;


    @ReturnVariables({
            @ReturnVariable(value = "PROCESS_COUNT", type = Integer.class,
                            availability = ReturnVariable.AVAILABILITY.AFTER),
            @ReturnVariable(value = "MISC", type = String.class,
                            availability = ReturnVariable.AVAILABILITY.FLOW) })
    @Processor
    public class ClassWithReturnVariablesGroup {
        ...

        @PreDestroy
        public void close() {
            context.set("PROCESS_COUNT", counted);
        }

    }
After Variables

Javajet

   <RETURN NAME="NAME_1_OF_AFTER_VARIABLE" TYPE="id_Integer" AVAILABILITY="AFTER"/>
   <RETURN NAME="NAME_2_OF_AFTER_VARIABLE" TYPE="id_String" AVAILABILITY="AFTER"/>

Component Kit

import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.AfterVariables.AfterVariableContainer;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.AfterVariables.AfterVariable;

/**
* Possible types:
* Boolean.class, Byte.class, byte[].class, Character.class, Date.class, Double.class, Float.class,
* BigDecimal.class, Integer.class, Long.class, Object.class, Short.class, String.class, List.class
*/
@AfterVariable(value = "NAME_1_OF_AFTER_VARIABLE", description = "Some description", type = Integer.class)
@AfterVariable(value = "NAME_2_OF_AFTER_VARIABLE", description = "Custom variable description", type = String.class)
class Emitter {

    @AfterVariableContainer
    public Map<String, Object> afterVariables() {
        // .. code
    }

}

or

import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.AfterVariables.AfterVariableContainer;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.AfterVariables.AfterVariable;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.AfterVariables;

@AfterVariables({
    @AfterVariable(value = "NAME_1_OF_AFTER_VARIABLE", description = "Some description", type = Integer.class),
    @AfterVariable(value = "NAME_2_OF_AFTER_VARIABLE", description = "Custom variable description", type = String.class)
})
class Emitter {
    @AfterVariableContainer
    public Map<String, Object> afterVariables() {
        // .. code
    }
}

Defining the runtime

Previously, the execution of a custom component was described through several Javajet files:

  • <component_name>_begin.javajet, containing the code required to initialize the component.

  • <component_name>_main.javajet, containing the code required to process each line of the incoming data.

  • <component_name>_end.javajet, containing the code required to end the processing and go to the following step of the execution.

With the Component Kit, the entire execution flow of a component is described through its main Java class <component_name><component_type> (for example, LoggerProcessor) and through services for reusable parts.

Component execution logic

Each type of component has its own execution logic. The same basic logic is applied to all components of the same type, and is then extended to implement each component specificities. The project generated from the starter already contains the basic logic for each component.

Talend Component Kit framework relies on several primitive components.

All components can use @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy annotations to initialize or release some underlying resource at the beginning and the end of a processing.

In distributed environments, class constructor are called on cluster manager nodes. Methods annotated with @PostConstruct and @PreDestroy are called on worker nodes. Thus, partition plan computation and pipeline tasks are performed on different nodes.

Deployment diagram

1 The created task is a JAR file containing class information, which describes the pipeline (flow) that should be processed in cluster.
2 During the partition plan computation step, the pipeline is analyzed and split into stages. The cluster manager node instantiates mappers/processors, gets estimated data size using mappers, and splits created mappers according to the estimated data size.
All instances are then serialized and sent to the worker node.
3 Serialized instances are received and deserialized. Methods annotated with @PostConstruct are called. After that, pipeline execution starts. The @BeforeGroup annotated method of the processor is called before processing the first element in chunk.
After processing the number of records estimated as chunk size, the @AfterGroup annotated method of the processor is called. Chunk size is calculated depending on the environment the pipeline is processed by. Once the pipeline is processed, methods annotated with @PreDestroy are called.
All the methods managed by the framework must be public. Private methods are ignored.

Driver processing workflow

Worker processing workflow

The framework is designed to be as declarative as possible but also to stay extensible by not using fixed interfaces or method signatures. This allows to incrementally add new features of the underlying implementations.
Main changes

To ensure that the Cloud-compatible approach of the Component Kit framework is respected, some changes were introduced on the implementation side, including:

  • The File mode is no longer supported. You can still work with URIs and remote storage systems to use files. The file collection must be handled at the component implementation level.

  • The input and output connections between two components can only be of the Flow or Reject types. Other types of connections are not supported.

  • Every Output component must have a corresponding Input component and use a dataset. All datasets must use a datastore.

Integrating components into Talend Cloud

Learn about the Component Server with the following articles:

Component server and HTTP API

HTTP API

The HTTP API intends to expose most Talend Component Kit features over HTTP. It is a standalone Java HTTP server.

The WebSocket protocol is activated for the endpoints. Endpoints then use /websocket/v1 as base instead of /api/v1. See WebSocket for more details.

Browse the API description using OpenAPI interface.

To make sure that the migration can be enabled, you need to set the version the component was created with in the execution configuration that you send to the server (component version is in component the detail endpoint). To do that, use tcomp::component::version key.
Deprecated endpoints

Endpoints that are intended to disappear will be deprecated. A X-Talend-Warning header will be returned with a message as value.

WebSocket transport

You can connect yo any endpoint by:

  1. Replacing /api with /websocket

  2. Appending /<http method> to the URL

  3. Formatting the request as:

SEND
destination: <endpoint after v1>
<headers>

<payload>^@

For example:

SEND
destination: /component/index
Accept: application/json

^@

The response is formatted as follows:

MESSAGE
status: <http status code>
<headers>

<payload>^@
All endpoints are logged at startup. You can then find them in the logs if you have a doubt about which one to use.

If you don’t want to create a pool of connections per endpoint/verb, you can use the bus endpoint: /websocket/v1/bus. This endpoint requires that you add the destinationMethod header to each request with the verb value (GET by default):

SEND
destination: /component/index
destinationMethod: GET
Accept: application/json

^@

Server configuration

the configuration is read from system properties, environment variables, …​.
talend.component.server.cache.maxSize

Default value: 1000. Maximum items a cache can store, used for index endpoints.

talend.component.server.component.coordinates

A comma separated list of gav to locate the components

talend.component.server.component.documentation.translations

Default value: ${home}/documentations. A component translation repository. This is where you put your documentation translations. Their name must follow the pattern documentation_${container-id}_language.adoc where ${container-id} is the component jar name (without the extension and version, generally the artifactId).

talend.component.server.component.extend.dependencies

Default value: true. Should the component extensions add required dependencies.

talend.component.server.component.extension.maven.repository

If you deploy some extension, where they can create their dependencies if needed.

talend.component.server.component.extension.startup.timeout

Default value: 180000. Timeout for extension initialization at startup, since it ensures the startup wait extensions are ready and loaded it allows to control the latency it implies.

talend.component.server.component.registry

A property file (or multiple comma separated) where the value is a gav of a component to register(complementary with coordinates). Note that the path can end up with or .properties to take into account all properties in a folder.

talend.component.server.documentation.active

Default value: true. Should the /documentation endpoint be activated. Note that when called on localhost the doc is always available.

talend.component.server.environment.active

Default value: true. Should the /api/v1/environment endpoint be activated. It shows some internal versions and git commit which are not always desirable over the wire.

talend.component.server.gridlayout.translation.support

Default value: false. Should the components using a @GridLayout support tab translation. Studio does not suppot that feature yet so this is not enabled by default.

talend.component.server.icon.paths

Default value: icons/%s.svg,icons/svg/%s.svg,icons/%s_icon32.png,icons/png/%s_icon32.png. These patterns are used to find the icons in the classpath(s).

talend.component.server.icon.theme.default

Default value: light. Icon default theme (light/dark).

talend.component.server.icon.theme.legacy

Default value: true. Do we support legacy (not themed) icons. If true, lookup will be done if not themed icon found.

talend.component.server.icon.theme.support

Default value: true. Do we support icons theme.

talend.component.server.jaxrs.exceptionhandler.defaultMessage

Default value: false. If set it will replace any message for exceptions. Set to false to use the actual exception message.

talend.component.server.lastUpdated.useStartTime

Default value: false. Should the lastUpdated timestamp value of /environment endpoint be updated with server start time.

talend.component.server.locale.mapping

Default value: en*=en fr*=fr zh*=zh_CN ja*=ja de*=de. For caching reasons the goal is to reduce the locales to the minimum required numbers. For instance we avoid fr and fr_FR which would lead to the same entries but x2 in terms of memory. This mapping enables that by whitelisting allowed locales, default being en. If the key ends with it means all string starting with the prefix will match. For instance fr will match fr_FR but also fr_CA.

talend.component.server.maven.repository

The local maven repository used to locate components and their dependencies

talend.component.server.plugins.reloading.active

Default value: false. Should the plugins be un-deployed and re-deployed.

talend.component.server.plugins.reloading.interval

Default value: 600. Interval in seconds between each check if plugins re-loading is enabled.

talend.component.server.plugins.reloading.marker

Specify a file to check its timestamp on the filesystem. This file will take precedence of the default ones provided by the talend.component.server.component.registry property (used for timestamp method).

talend.component.server.plugins.reloading.method

Default value: timestamp. Re-deploy method on a timestamp or connectors version change. By default, the timestamp is checked on the file pointed by talend.component.server.component.registry or talend.component.server.plugins.reloading.marker variable, otherwise we inspect the content of the CONNECTORS_VERSION file. Accepted values: timestamp, anything else defaults to connectors.

talend.component.server.request.log

Default value: false. Should the all requests/responses be logged (debug purposes - only work when running with CXF).

talend.component.server.security.command.handler

Default value: securityNoopHandler. How to validate a command/request. Accepted values: securityNoopHandler.

talend.component.server.security.connection.handler

Default value: securityNoopHandler. How to validate a connection. Accepted values: securityNoopHandler.

talend.component.server.user.extensions.location

A folder available for the server - don’t forget to mount it in docker if you are using the image - which accepts subfolders named as component plugin id (generally the artifactId or jar name without the version, ex: jdbc). Each family folder can contain:

  • a user-configuration.properties file which will be merged with component configuration system (see services). This properties file enables the function userJar(xxxx) to replace the jar named xxxx by its virtual gav (groupId:artifactId:version),

  • a list of jars which will be merged with component family classpath

talend.component.server.user.extensions.provisioning.location

Default value: auto. Should the implicit artifacts be provisionned to a m2. If set to auto it tries to detect if there is a m2 to provision - recommended, if set to skip it is ignored, else it uses the value as a m2 path.

Configuration mechanism

The configuration uses Microprofile Config for most entries. It means it can be passed through system properties and environment variables (by replacing dots with underscores and making the keys uppercase).

To configure a Docker image rather than a standalone instance, Docker Config and secrets integration allows you to read the configuration from files. You can customize the configuration of these integrations through system properties.

Docker integration provides a secure: support to encrypt values and system properties, when required.

It is fully implemented using the Apache Geronimo Microprofile Config extensions.

HTTPS activation

Using the server ZIP (or Docker image), you can configure HTTPS by adding properties to _JAVA_OPTIONS. Assuming that you have a certificate in /opt/certificates/component.p12 (don’t forget to add/mount it in the Docker image if you use it), you can activate it as follows:

# use -e for Docker and `--https=8443` to set the port
#
# this skips the http port binding and only binds https on the port 8443, and setups the correct certificate
export _JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dskip-http=true -Dssl=true -Dhttps=8443 -Dkeystore-type=PKCS12 -Dkeystore-alias=talend -Dkeystore-password=talend -Dkeystore-file=/opt/certificates/component.p12"

Defining queries

You can define simple queries on the configuration types and components endpoints. These two endpoints support different parameters.

Queries on the configurationtype/index endpoint supports the following parameters:

  • type

  • id

  • name

  • metadata of the first configuration property as parameters.

Queries on the component/index endpoint supports the following parameters:

  • plugin

  • name

  • id

  • familyId

  • metadata of the first configuration property as parameters.

In both cases, you can combine several conditions using OR and AND operators. If you combine more than two conditions, note that they are evaluated in the order they are written.

Each supported parameter in a condition can be "equal to" (=) or "not equal to" (!=) a defined value (case-sensitive).

For example:

(metadata[configurationtype::type] = dataset) AND (plugin = jdbc-component) OR (name = input)

In this example, the query gets components that have a dataset and belong to the jdbc-component plugin, or components that are named input.

Web forms and REST API

The component-form library provides a way to build a component REST API facade that is compatible with React form library.

for example:

@Path("tacokit-facade")
@ApplicationScoped
public class ComponentFacade {
    private static final String[] EMPTY_ARRAY = new String[0];

    @Inject
    private Client client;

    @Inject
    private ActionService actionService;

    @Inject
    private UiSpecService uiSpecService;

    @Inject // assuming it is available in your app, use any client you want
    private WebTarget target;

    @POST
    @Path("action")
    public void action(@Suspended final AsyncResponse response, @QueryParam("family") final String family,
            @QueryParam("type") final String type, @QueryParam("action") final String action,
            final Map<String, Object> params) {
        client.action(family, type, action, params).handle((r, e) -> {
            if (e != null) {
                onException(response, e);
            } else {
                response.resume(actionService.map(type, r));
            }
            return null;
        });
    }

    @GET
    @Path("index")
    public void getIndex(@Suspended final AsyncResponse response,
            @QueryParam("language") @DefaultValue("en") final String language) {
        target
                .path("component/index")
                .queryParam("language", language)
                .request(APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE)
                .rx()
                .get(ComponentIndices.class)
                .toCompletableFuture()
                .handle((index, e) -> {
            if (e != null) {
                onException(response, e);
            } else {
                index.getComponents().stream().flatMap(c -> c.getLinks().stream()).forEach(
                        link -> link.setPath(link.getPath().replaceFirst("/component/", "/application/").replace(
                                "/details?identifiers=", "/detail/")));
                response.resume(index);
            }
            return null;
        });
    }

    @GET
    @Path("detail/{id}")
    public void getDetail(@Suspended final AsyncResponse response,
            @QueryParam("language") @DefaultValue("en") final String language, @PathParam("id") final String id) {
        target
                .path("component/details")
                .queryParam("language", language)
                .queryParam("identifiers", id)
                .request(APPLICATION_JSON_TYPE)
                .rx()
                .get(ComponentDetailList.class)
                .toCompletableFuture()
                .thenCompose(result -> uiSpecService.convert(result.getDetails().iterator().next()))
                .handle((result, e) -> {
                    if (e != null) {
                        onException(response, e);
                    } else {
                        response.resume(result);
                    }
                    return null;
                });
    }

    private void onException(final AsyncResponse response, final Throwable e) {
        final UiActionResult payload;
        final int status;
        if (WebException.class.isInstance(e)) {
            final WebException we = WebException.class.cast(e);
            status = we.getStatus();
            payload = actionService.map(we);
        } else if (CompletionException.class.isInstance(e)) {
            final CompletionException actualException = CompletionException.class.cast(e);
            log.error(actualException.getMessage(), actualException);
            status = Response.Status.BAD_GATEWAY.getStatusCode();
            payload = actionService.map(new WebException(actualException, -1, emptyMap()));
        } else {
            log.error(e.getMessage(), e);
            status = Response.Status.BAD_GATEWAY.getStatusCode();
            payload = actionService.map(new WebException(e, -1, emptyMap()));
        }
        response.resume(new WebApplicationException(Response.status(status).entity(payload).build()));
    }
}
the Client can be created using ClientFactory.createDefault(System.getProperty("app.components.base", "http://localhost:8080/api/v1")) and the service can be a simple new UiSpecService<>(). The factory uses JAX-RS if the API is available (assuming a JSON-B provider is registered). Otherwise, it tries to use Spring.

The conversion from the component model (REST API) to the uiSpec model is done through UiSpecService. It is based on the object model which is mapped to a UI model. Having a flat model in the component REST API allows to customize layers easily.

You can completely control the available components, tune the rendering by switching the uiSchema, and add or remove parts of the form. You can also add custom actions and buttons for specific needs of the application.

The /migrate endpoint was not shown in the previous snippet but if you need it, add it as well.
Using the UiSpec model without the tooling
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
  <artifactId>component-form-model</artifactId>
  <version>${talend-component-kit.version}</version>
</dependency>

This Maven dependency provides the UISpec model classes. You can use the Ui API (with or without the builders) to create UiSpec representations.

For Example:

final Ui form1 = ui()
    .withJsonSchema(JsonSchema.jsonSchemaFrom(Form1.class).build()) (1)
    .withUiSchema(uiSchema() (2)
        .withKey("multiSelectTag")
        .withRestricted(false)
        .withTitle("Simple multiSelectTag")
        .withDescription("This data list accepts values that are not in the list of suggestions")
        .withWidget("multiSelectTag")
        .build())
    .withProperties(myFormInstance) (3)
    .build();

final String json = jsonb.toJson(form1); (4)
1 The JsonSchema is extracted from reflection on the Form1 class. @JsonSchemaIgnore allows to ignore a field and @JsonSchemaProperty allows to rename a property.
2 A UiSchema is programmatically built using the builder API.
3 An instance of the form is passed to let the serializer extract its JSON model.
4 The Ui model, which can be used by UiSpec compatible front widgets, is serialized.

The model uses the JSON-B API to define the binding. Make sure to have an implementation in your classpath. To do that, add the following dependencies:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
  <artifactId>geronimo-jsonb_1.0_spec</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.geronimo.specs</groupId>
  <artifactId>geronimo-json_1.1_spec</artifactId>
  <version>1.0</version>
</dependency>
<dependency>
  <groupId>org.apache.johnzon</groupId>
  <artifactId>johnzon-jsonb</artifactId>
  <version>${johnzon.version}</version> <!-- 1.1.5 for instance -->
</dependency>
Using the UiSpec for custom models

The following module enables you to define through annotations a uispec on your own models:

<dependency>
  <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
  <artifactId>component-uispec-mapper</artifactId>
  <version>${talend-component-kit.version}</version>
</dependency>
this can’t be used in components and is only intended for web applications.

org.talend.sdk.component.form.uispec.mapper.api.service.UiSpecMapper enables to create a Ui instance from a custom type annotated with org.talend.sdk.component.form.uispec.mapper.api.model.View and org.talend.sdk.component.form.uispec.mapper.api.model.View.Schema.

UiSpecMapper returns a Supplier and not directly an Ui because the ui-schema is re-evaluated when `get()Ì€ is called. This enables to update the title maps for example.

Here is an example:

@Data
public abstract class BaseModel {
    @View.Skip
    private String id;

    @View.Skip
    private Date created;

    @View.Skip
    private Date updated;

    @View.Schema(type = "hidden", readOnly = true)
    private long version;
}

@Data
@ToString(callSuper = true)
@EqualsAndHashCode(callSuper = true)
public class ComponentModel extends BaseModel {
    @View.Schema(length = 1024, required = true, position = 1, reference = "vendors")
    private String vendor;

    @View.Schema(length = 2048, required = true, position = 2)
    private String name;

    @View.Schema(length = 2048, required = true, position = 3)
    private String license;

    @View.Schema(length = 2048, required = true, position = 4)
    private String sources;

    @View.Schema(length = 2048, required = true, position = 5)
    private String bugtracker;

    @View.Schema(length = 2048, required = true, position = 6)
    private String documentation;

    @View.Schema(widget = "textarea", length = 8192, required = true, position = 7)
    private String description;

    @View.Schema(widget = "textarea", length = 8192, position = 8)
    private String changelog;
}

This API maps directly the UiSpec model (json schema and ui schema of Talend UIForm).

The default implementation of the mapper is available at org.talend.sdk.component.form.uispec.mapper.impl.UiSpecMapperImpl.

Here is an example:

private UiSpecMapper mapper = new UiSpecMapperImpl(new Configuration(getTitleMapProviders()));

@GET
public Ui getNewComponentModelForm() {
    return mapper.createFormFor(ComponentModel.class).get();
}

@GET
@Path("{id}")
public Ui editComponentModelForm(final @PathParam("id") final String id) {
    final ComponentModel component = findComponent(id);
    final Ui spec = getNewComponentModelForm();
    spec.setProperties(component);
    return spec;
}

The getTitleMapProviders() method will generally lookup a set of TitleMapProvider instances in your IoC context. This API is used to fill the titleMap of the form when a reference identifier is set on the @Schema annotation.

JavaScript integration
component-kit.js is no more available (previous versions stay on NPM) and is replaced by @talend/react-containers. The previous import can be replaced by import kit from '@talend/react-containers/lib/ComponentForm/kit';.

Default JavaScript integration goes through the Talend UI Forms library and its Containers wrapper.

Documentation is now available on the previous link.

Logging

The logging uses Log4j2. You can specify a custom configuration by using the -Dlog4j.configurationFile system property or by adding a log4j2.xml file to the classpath.

Here are some common configurations:

  • Console logging:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Configuration status="INFO">
  <Appenders>
    <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
      <PatternLayout pattern="[%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS}][%highlight{%-5level}][%15.15t][%30.30logger] %msg%n"/>
    </Console>
  </Appenders>
  <Loggers>
    <Root level="INFO">
      <AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
    </Root>
  </Loggers>
</Configuration>

Output messages look like:

[16:59:58.198][INFO ][           main][oyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol] Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-34763"]
  • JSON logging:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Configuration status="INFO">
  <Properties>
    <!-- DO NOT PUT logSource there, it is useless and slow -->
    <Property name="jsonLayout">{"severity":"%level","logMessage":"%encode{%message}{JSON}","logTimestamp":"%d{ISO8601}{UTC}","eventUUID":"%uuid{RANDOM}","@version":"1","logger.name":"%encode{%logger}{JSON}","host.name":"${hostName}","threadName":"%encode{%thread}{JSON}","stackTrace":"%encode{%xThrowable{full}}{JSON}"}%n</Property>
  </Properties>
  <Appenders>
    <Console name="Console" target="SYSTEM_OUT">
      <PatternLayout pattern="${jsonLayout}"/>
    </Console>
  </Appenders>
  <Loggers>
    <Root level="INFO">
      <AppenderRef ref="Console"/>
    </Root>
  </Loggers>
</Configuration>

Output messages look like:

{"severity":"INFO","logMessage":"Initializing ProtocolHandler [\"http-nio-46421\"]","logTimestamp":"2017-11-20T16:04:01,763","eventUUID":"8b998e17-7045-461c-8acb-c43f21d995ff","@version":"1","logger.name":"org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol","host.name":"TLND-RMANNIBUCAU","threadName":"main","stackTrace":""}
  • Rolling file appender:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<Configuration status="INFO">
  <Appenders>
    <RollingRandomAccessFile name="File" fileName="${LOG_PATH}/application.log" filePattern="${LOG_PATH}/application-%d{yyyy-MM-dd}.log">
      <PatternLayout pattern="[%d{HH:mm:ss.SSS}][%highlight{%-5level}][%15.15t][%30.30logger] %msg%n"/>
      <Policies>
        <SizeBasedTriggeringPolicy size="100 MB" />
        <TimeBasedTriggeringPolicy interval="1" modulate="true"/>
      </Policies>
    </RollingRandomAccessFile>
  </Appenders>
  <Loggers>
    <Root level="INFO">
      <AppenderRef ref="File"/>
    </Root>
  </Loggers>
</Configuration>

More details are available in the RollingFileAppender documentation.

You can compose previous layout (message format) and appenders (where logs are written).

Docker

The server image is deployed on Docker. Its version is suffixed with a timestamp to ensure images are not overridden and can break your usage. You can check the available version on Docker hub.

Run

You can run the docker image by executing this command :

$ sudo docker run -p 8080:8080 tacokit/component-starter
Configure

You can set the env variable _JAVA_OPTIONS to customize the server, by default it is installed in /opt/talend/component-kit.

Maven repository

The maven repository is the default one of the machine, you can change it setting the system property talend.component.server.maven.repository=/path/to/your/m2.

Deploy components to the server

If you want to deploy some components you can configure which ones in _JAVA_OPTIONS (see server doc online) and redirect your local m2:

$ docker run \
       -p 8080:8080 \
       -v ~/.m2:/root/.m2 \
       -e _JAVA_OPTIONS="-Dtalend.component.server.component.coordinates=g:a:v,g2:a2:v2,..." \
       component-server
Logging

The component server docker image comes with two log4j2 profiles: TEXT (default) and JSON. The logging profile can be changed by setting the environment variable LOGGING_LAYOUT to JSON.

Note that Component Server adds to these default Talend profiles the KAFKA profile. With this profile, all logs are sent to Kafka.

You can check the exact configuration in the component-runtime/images/component-server-image/src/main/resources folder.
default or TEXT profile

The console logging is on at INFO level by default. You can customize it by setting the CONSOLE_LOG_LEVEL environment variable to DEBUG, INFO, WARN or to any other log level supported by log4j2.

Run docker image with console logging:

sudo docker run -p 8080:8080 \
	-e CONSOLE_LOG_LEVEL=DEBUG \
	component-server
JSON profile

The JSON profile logs on the console using the CONSOLE_LOG_LEVEL configuration as the default profile. Events are logged in the following format:

{
   "eventUUID":"%uuid{RANDOM}",
   "correlationId":"%X{traceId}",
   "spanId":"%X{spanId}",
   "traceId":"%X{traceId}",
   "category":"components",
   "eventType":"LOGEvent",
   "severity":"%level",
   "logMessage":"%encode{%message}{JSON}",
   "logSource":{
      "class.name":"%class",
      "file.name":"%file",
      "host.name":"%X{hostname}",
      "line.number":"%line",
      "logger.name":"%logger",
      "method.name":"%method",
      "process.id":"%pid"
   },
   "service":"${env:LOG_SERVICE_NAME:-component-server}",
   "application":"${env:LOG_APP_NAME:-component-server}",
   "exportable":"${env:LOG_EXPORTABLE:-true}",
   "audit":"${env:LOG_AUDIT:-false}",
   "logTimestamp":"%d{ISO8601}{UTC}",
   "serverTimestamp":"%d{ISO8601}{UTC}",
   "customInfo":{
      "threadName":"%encode{%thread}{JSON}",
      "stackTrace":"%encode{%xThrowable{full}}{JSON}"
   }
}
KAFKA profile

This profile is very close to the JSON profile and also adds the LOG_KAFKA_TOPIC and LOG_KAFKA_URL configuration. The difference is that it logs the default logs on Kafka in addition to the tracing logs.

Building the docker image

You can register component server images in Docker using these instructions in the corresponding image directory:

# ex: cd images/component-server-image
mvn clean compile jib:dockerBuild
Integrating components into the image
Docker Compose

Docker Compose allows you to deploy the server with components, by mounting the component volume into the server image.

docker-compose.yml example:

version: '3.2'

services:
  component-server:
    healthcheck:
      timeout: 3s
      interval: 3s
      retries: 3
      test: curl --fail http://localhost:1234/api/v1/environment
    image: tacokit/component-server:${COMPONENT_SERVER_IMAGE:-1.1.2_20181108161652}
    command: --http=1234
    environment:
    - CONSOLE_LOG_LEVEL=INFO
    - _JAVA_OPTIONS=
        -Xmx1024m
        -Dtalend.component.server.component.registry=/opt/talend/connectors/component-registry.properties
        -Dtalend.component.server.maven.repository=/opt/talend/connectors
    ports:
    - 1234:1234/tcp
    volumes:
    - type: bind
      read_only: true
      source: ${CONNECTORS_REPOSITORY}
      target: /opt/talend/connectors
      volume:
        nocopy: true

If you want to mount it from another image, you can use this compose configuration:

version: '3.2'

services:
  component-server:
    healthcheck:
      timeout: 3s
      interval: 3s
      retries: 3
      test: curl --fail http://localhost:1234/api/v1/environment
    image: tacokit/component-server:${COMPONENT_SERVER_IMAGE_VERSION}
    command: --http=1234
    environment:
    - _JAVA_OPTIONS=
        -agentlib:jdwp=transport=dt_socket,server=y,suspend=n,address=5005
        -Djava.library.path=/opt/talend/component-kit/work/sigar/sigar:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64/server:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8-openjdk/jre/lib/amd64:/usr/lib/jvm/java-1.8-openjdk/jre/../lib/amd64:/usr/java/packages/lib/amd64:/usr/lib64:/lib64:/lib:/usr/lib
        -Xmx1024m
        -Dtalend.component.server.component.registry=/opt/talend/connectors/component-registry.properties
        -Dtalend.component.server.maven.repository=/opt/talend/connectors
    ports:
    - 1234:1234/tcp
    - 5005:5005/tcp
    volumes:
    - connectors:/opt/talend/connectors:ro

  connectors:
    image: talend/connectors:${CONNECTORS_VERSION}
    environment:
    - CONNECTORS_SETUP_OPTS=setup --wait-for-end --component-jdbc-auto-download-drivers
    volumes:
    - connectors:/opt/talend/connectors:ro


volumes:
  connectors:

To run one of the previous compose examples, you can use docker-compose -f docker-compose.yml up.

Only use the configuration related to port 5005 (in ports and the -agentlib option in _JAVA_OPTIONS) to debug the server on port 5005. Don’t set it in production.
Adding extensions to the server

You can mount a volume in /opt/talend/component-kit/custom/ and the jars in that folder which will be deployed with the server. Since the server relies on CDI (Apache OpenWebBeans) you can use that technology to enrich it, including JAX-RS endpoints, interceptors etc…​or just libraries needing to be in the JVM.

Tutorials

Creating your first component

This tutorial walks you through the most common iteration steps to create a component with Talend Component Kit and to deploy it to Talend Open Studio.

The component created in this tutorial is a simple processor that reads data coming from the previous component in a job or pipeline and displays it in the console logs of the application, along with an additional information entered by the final user.

The component designed in this tutorial is a processor and does not require nor show any datastore and dataset configuration. Datasets and datastores are required only for input and output components.
Job run

Prerequisites

To get your development environment ready and be able to follow this tutorial:

  • Download and install a Java JDK 1.8 or greater.

  • Download and install Talend Open Studio. For example, from Sourceforge.

  • Download and install IntelliJ.

  • Download the Talend Component Kit plugin for IntelliJ. The detailed installation steps for the plugin are available in this document.

Generate a component project

The first step in this tutorial is to generate a component skeleton using the Starter embedded in the Talend Component Kit plugin for IntelliJ.

  1. Start IntelliJ and create a new project. In the available options, you should see Talend Component.

    New project
  2. Make sure that a Project SDK is selected. Then, select Talend Component and click Next.
    The Talend Component Kit Starter opens.

  3. Enter the component and project metadata. Change the default values, for example as presented in the screenshot below:

    Project metadata
    • The Component Family and the Category will be used later in Talend Open Studio to find the new component.

    • Project metadata is mostly used to identify the project structure. A common practice is to replace 'company' in the default value by a value of your own, like your domain name.

  4. Once the metadata is filled, select Add a component. A new screen is displayed in the Talend Component Kit Starter that lets you define the generic configuration of the component. By default, new components are processors.

  5. Enter a valid Java name for the component. For example, Logger.

  6. Select Configuration Model and add a string type field named level. This input field will be used in the component configuration for final users to enter additional information to display in the logs.

    Configuration Model
  7. In the Input(s) / Output(s) section, click the default MAIN input branch to access its detail, and make sure that the record model is set to Generic. Leave the Name of the branch with its default MAIN value.

    Generic Input
  8. Repeat the same step for the default MAIN output branch.

    Because the component is a processor, it has an output branch by default. A processor without any output branch is considered an output component. You can create output components when the Activate IO option is selected.
  9. Click Next and check the name and location of the project, then click Finish to generate the project in the IDE.

At this point, your component is technically already ready to be compiled and deployed to Talend Open Studio. But first, take a look at the generated project:

Project view
  • Two classes based on the name and type of component defined in the Talend Component Kit Starter have been generated:

    • LoggerProcessor is where the component logic is defined

    • LoggerProcessorConfiguration is where the component layout and configurable fields are defined, including the level string field that was defined earlier in the configuration model of the component.

  • The package-info.java file contains the component metadata defined in the Talend Component Kit Starter, such as family and category.

  • You can notice as well that the elements in the tree structure are named after the project metadata defined in the Talend Component Kit Starter.

These files are the starting point if you later need to edit the configuration, logic, and metadata of the component.

There is more that you can do and configure with the Talend Component Kit Starter. This tutorial covers only the basics. You can find more information in this document.

Compile and deploy the component to Talend Open Studio

Without modifying the component code generated from the Starter, you can compile the project and deploy the component to a local instance of Talend Open Studio.

The logic of the component is not yet implemented at that stage. Only the configurable part specified in the Starter will be visible. This step is useful to confirm that the basic configuration of the component renders correctly.

Before starting to run any command, make sure that Talend Open Studio is not running.

  1. From the component project in IntelliJ, open a Terminal and make sure that the selected directory is the root of the project. All commands shown in this tutorial are performed from this location.

    Compile terminal
  2. Compile the project by running the following command: mvnw clean install.
    The mvnw command refers to the Maven wrapper that is embedded in Talend Component Kit. It allows to use the right version of Maven for your project without having to install it manually beforehand. An equivalent wrapper is available for Gradle.

  3. Once the command is executed and you see BUILD SUCCESS in the terminal, deploy the component to your local instance of Talend Open Studio using the following command:
    mvnw talend-component:deploy-in-studio -Dtalend.component.studioHome="<path to Talend Open Studio home>".

    Replace the path with your own value. If the path contains spaces (for example, Program Files), enclose it with double quotes.
  4. Make sure the build is successful.

    Build success
  5. Open Talend Open Studio and create a new Job:

    • Find the new component by looking for the family and category specified in the Talend Component Kit Starter. You can add it to your job and open its settings.

    • Notice that the level field specified in the configuration model of the component in the Talend Component Kit Starter is present.

      Component in Studio

At this point, the new component is available in Talend Open Studio, and its configurable part is already set. But the component logic is still to be defined.

Edit the component

You can now edit the component to implement its logic: reading the data coming through the input branch to display that data in the execution logs of the job. The value of the level field that final users can fill also needs to be changed to uppercase and displayed in the logs.

  1. Save the job created earlier and close Talend Open Studio.

  2. Go back to the component development project in IntelliJ and open the LoggerProcessor class. This is the class where the component logic can be defined.

  3. Look for the @ElementListener method. It is already present and references the default input branch that was defined in the Talend Component Kit Starter, but it is not complete yet.

  4. To be able to log the data in input to the console, add the following lines:

    //Log read input to the console with uppercase level.
            System.out.println("["+configuration.getLevel().toUpperCase()+"] "+defaultInput);

    The @ElementListener method now looks as follows:

    @ElementListener
        public void onNext(
                @Input final Record defaultInput) {
            //Reads the input.
    
            //Log read input to the console with uppercase level.
            System.out.println("["+configuration.getLevel().toUpperCase()+"] "+defaultInput);
        }
  1. Open a Terminal again to compile the project and deploy the component again. To do that, run successively the two following commands:

    • mvnw clean install

    • `mvnw talend-component:deploy-in-studio -Dtalend.component.studioHome="<path to Talend Open Studio home>"

The update of the component logic should now be deployed. After restarting Talend Open Studio, you will be ready to build a job and use the component for the first time.

To learn the different possibilities and methods available to develop more complex logics, refer to this document.

If you want to avoid having to close and re-open Talend Open Studio every time you need to make an edit, you can enable the developer mode, as explained in this document.

Build a job with the component

As the component is now ready to be used, it is time to create a job and check that it behaves as intended.

  1. Open Talend Open Studio again and go to the job created earlier. The new component is still there.

  2. Add a tRowGenerator component and connect it to the logger.

  3. Double-click the tRowGenerator to specify the data to generate:

    • Add a first column named firstName and select the TalendDataGenerator.getFirstName() function.

    • Add a second column named 'lastName' and select the TalendDataGenerator.getLastName() function.

    • Set the Number of Rows for RowGenerator to 10.

      tRowGenerator
  4. Validate the tRowGenerator configuration.

  5. Open the TutorialFamilyLogger component and set the level field to info.

    Logger
  6. Go to the Run tab of the job and run the job.
    The job is executed. You can observe in the console that each of the 10 generated rows is logged, and that the info value entered in the logger is also displayed with each record, in uppercase.

Job run

Generating a project using the Component Kit Starter

The Component Kit Starter lets you design your components configuration and generates a ready-to-implement project structure.

The Starter is available on the web or as an IntelliJ plugin.

This tutorial shows you how to use the Component Kit Starter to generate new components for MySQL databases. Before starting, make sure that you have correctly setup your environment. See this section.

When defining a project using the Starter, do not refresh the page to avoid losing your configuration.

Configuring the project

Before being able to create components, you need to define the general settings of the project:

  1. Create a folder on your local machine to store the resource files of the component you want to create. For example, C:/my_components.

  2. Open the Starter in the web browser of your choice.

  3. Select your build tool. This tutorial uses Maven, but you can select Gradle instead.

  4. Add any facet you need. For example, add the Talend Component Kit Testing facet to your project to automatically generate unit tests for the components created in the project.

    Test facet
  5. Enter the Component Family of the components you want to develop in the project. This name must be a valid java name and is recommended to be capitalized, for example 'MySQL'.
    Once you have implemented your components in the Studio, this name is displayed in the Palette to group all of the MySQL-related components you develop, and is also part of your component name.

  6. Select the Category of the components you want to create in the current project. As MySQL is a kind of database, select Databases in this tutorial.
    This Databases category is used and displayed as the parent family of the MySQL group in the Palette of the Studio.

  7. Complete the project metadata by entering the Group, Artifact and Package.

  8. By default, you can only create processors. If you need to create Input or Output components, select Activate IO. By doing this:

    • Two new menu entries let you add datasets and datastores to your project, as they are required for input and output components.

      Input and Output components without dataset (itself containing a datastore) will not pass the validation step when building the components. Learn more about datasets and datastores in this document.
    • An Input component and an Output component are automatically added to your project and ready to be configured.

    • Components added to the project using Add A Component can now be processors, input or output components.

      Activate IO

Defining a Datastore

A datastore represents the data needed by an input or output component to connect to a database.

When building a component, the validateDataSet validation checks that each input or output (processor without output branch) component uses a dataset and that this dataset has a datastore.

You can define one or several datastores if you have selected the Activate IO step.

  1. Select Datastore. The list of datastores opens. By default, a datastore is already open but not configured. You can configure it or create a new one using Add new Datastore.

  2. Specify the name of the datastore. Modify the default value to a meaningful name for your project.
    This name must be a valid Java name as it will represent the datastore class in your project. It is a good practice to start it with an uppercase letter.

  3. Edit the datastore configuration. Parameter names must be valid Java names. Use lower case as much as possible. A typical configuration includes connection details to a database:

    • url

    • username

    • password.

  4. Save the datastore configuration.

Defining a Dataset

A dataset represents the data coming from or sent to a database and needed by input and output components to operate.

The validateDataSet validation checks that each input or output (processor without output branch) component uses a dataset and that this dataset has a datastore.

You can define one or several datasets if you have selected the Activate IO step.

  1. Select Dataset. The list of datasets opens. By default, a dataset is already open but not configured. You can configure it or create a new one using the Add new Dataset button.

  2. Specify the name of the dataset. Modify the default value to a meaningful name for your project.
    This name must be a valid Java name as it will represent the dataset class in your project. It is a good practice to start it with an uppercase letter.

  3. Edit the dataset configuration. Parameter names must be valid Java names. Use lower case as much as possible. A typical configuration includes details of the data to retrieve:

    • Datastore to use (that contains the connection details to the database)

    • table name

    • data

  4. Save the dataset configuration.

Creating an Input component

To create an input component, make sure you have selected Activate IO.

When clicking Add A Component in the Starter, a new step allows you to define a new component in your project.
The intent in this tutorial is to create an input component that connects to a MySQL database, executes a SQL query and gets the result.

Input configuration
  1. Choose the component type. Input in this case.

  2. Enter the component name. For example, MySQLInput.

  3. Click Configuration model. This button lets you specify the required configuration for the component. By default, a dataset is already specified.

  4. For each parameter that you need to add, click the (+) button on the right panel. Enter the parameter name and choose its type then click the tick button to save the changes.
    In this tutorial, to be able to execute a SQL query on the Input MySQL database, the configuration requires the following parameters:+

    • a dataset (which contains the datastore with the connection information)

    • a timeout parameter.

      Closing the configuration panel on the right does not delete your configuration. However, refreshing the page resets the configuration.
      Input configuration
  5. Specify whether the component issues a stream or not. In this tutorial, the MySQL input component created is an ordinary (non streaming) component. In this case, leave the Stream option disabled.

  6. Select the Record Type generated by the component. In this tutorial, select Generic because the component is designed to generate records in the default Record format.
    You can also select Custom to define a POJO that represents your records.

Your input component is now defined. You can add another component or generate and download your project.

Creating a Processor component

When clicking Add A Component in the Starter, a new step allows you to define a new component in your project. The intent in this tutorial is to create a simple processor component that receives a record, logs it and returns it at it is.

If you did not select Activate IO, all new components you add to the project are processors by default.
If you selected Activate IO, you can choose the component type. In this case, to create a Processor component, you have to manually add at least one output.
  1. If required, choose the component type: Processor in this case.

  2. Enter the component name. For example, RecordLogger, as the processor created in this tutorial logs the records.

  3. Specify the Configuration Model of the component. In this tutorial, the component doesn’t need any specific configuration. Skip this step.

  4. Define the Input(s) of the component. For each input that you need to define, click Add Input. In this tutorial, only one input is needed to receive the record to log.

  5. Click the input name to access its configuration. You can change the name of the input and define its structure using a POJO. If you added several inputs, repeat this step for each one of them.
    The input in this tutorial is a generic record. Enable the Generic option and click Save.

    Processor configuration
  6. Define the Output(s) of the component. For each output that you need to define, click Add Output. The first output must be named MAIN. In this tutorial, only one generic output is needed to return the received record.
    Outputs can be configured the same way as inputs (see previous steps).
    You can define a reject output connection by naming it REJECT. This naming is used by Talend applications to automatically set the connection type to Reject.

Your processor component is now defined. You can add another component or generate and download your project.

Creating an Output component

To create an output component, make sure you have selected Activate IO.

When clicking Add A Component in the Starter, a new step allows you to define a new component in your project.
The intent in this tutorial is to create an output component that receives a record and inserts it into a MySQL database table.

Output components are Processors without any output. In other words, the output is a processor that does not produce any records.
Output configuration
  1. Choose the component type. Output in this case.

  2. Enter the component name. For example, MySQLOutput.

  3. Click Configuration Model. This button lets you specify the required configuration for the component. By default, a dataset is already specified.

  4. For each parameter that you need to add, click the (+) button on the right panel. Enter the name and choose the type of the parameter, then click the tick button to save the changes.
    In this tutorial, to be able to insert a record in the output MySQL database, the configuration requires the following parameters:+

    • a dataset (which contains the datastore with the connection information)

    • a timeout parameter.

      Closing the configuration panel on the right does not delete your configuration. However, refreshing the page resets the configuration.
  5. Define the Input(s) of the component. For each input that you need to define, click Add Input. In this tutorial, only one input is needed.

  6. Click the input name to access its configuration. You can change the name of the input and define its structure using a POJO. If you added several inputs, repeat this step for each one of them.
    The input in this tutorial is a generic record. Enable the Generic option and click Save.

Do not create any output because the component does not produce any record. This is the only difference between an output an a processor component.

Your output component is now defined. You can add another component or generate and download your project.

Generating and downloading the final project

Once your project is configured and all the components you need are created, you can generate and download the final project. In this tutorial, the project was configured and three components of different types (input, processor and output) have been defined.

  1. Click Finish on the left panel. You are redirected to a page that summarizes the project. On the left panel, you can also see all the components that you added to the project.

    Output configuration
  2. Generate the project using one of the two options available:

    • Download it locally as a ZIP file using the Download as ZIP button.

    • Create a GitHub repository and push the project to it using the Create on Github button.

In this tutorial, the project is downloaded to the local machine as a ZIP file.

Compiling and exploring the generated project files

Once the package is available on your machine, you can compile it using the build tool selected when configuring the project.

  • In the tutorial, Maven is the build tool selected for the project.
    In the project directory, execute the mvn package command.
    If you don’t have Maven installed on your machine, you can use the Maven wrapper provided in the generated project, by executing the ./mvnw package command.

  • If you have created a Gradle project, you can compile it using the gradle build command or using the Gradle wrapper: ./gradlew build.

The generated project code contains documentation that can guide and help you implementing the component logic. Import the project to your favorite IDE to start the implementation.

Generating a project using an OpenAPI JSON descriptor

The Component Kit Starter allows you to generate a component development project from an OpenAPI JSON descriptor.

  1. Open the Starter in the web browser of your choice.

  2. Enable the OpenAPI mode using the toggle in the header.

    Open API toggle
  3. Go to the API menu.

  4. Paste the OpenAPI JSON descriptor in the right part of the screen. All the described endpoints are detected.

  5. Unselect the endpoints that you do not want to use in the future components. By default, all detected endpoints are selected.

    Open API menu
  6. Go to the Finish menu.

  7. Download the project.

When exploring the project generated from an OpenAPI descriptor, you can notice the following elements:

  • sources

  • the API dataset

  • an HTTP client for the API

  • a connection folder containing the component configuration. By default, the configuration is only made of a simple datastore with a baseUrl parameter.

Talend Input component for Hazelcast

This tutorial walks you through the creation, from scratch, of a complete Talend input component for Hazelcast using the Talend Component Kit (TCK) framework.

Hazelcast is an in-memory distributed system that can store data, which makes it a good example of input component for distributed systems. This is enough for you to get started with this tutorial, but you can find more information about it here: hazelcast.org/.

Creating the project

A TCK project is a simple Java project with specific configurations and dependencies. You can choose your preferred build tool from Maven or Gradle as TCK supports both. In this tutorial, Maven is used.

The first step consists in generating the project structure using Talend Starter Toolkit .

  1. Go to starter-toolkit.talend.io/ and fill in the project information as shown in the screenshots below, then click Finish and Download as ZIP.

    image::tutorial_hazelcast_generateproject_1.png[]
    image::tutorial_hazelcast_generateproject_2.png[]

  2. Extract the ZIP file into your workspace and import it to your preferred IDE. This tutorial uses Intellij IDE, but you can use Eclipse or any other IDE that you are comfortable with.

    You can use the Starter Toolkit to define the full configuration of the component, but in this tutorial some parts are configured manually to explain key concepts of TCK.

    The generated pom.xml file of the project looks as follows:

    <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
    <project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0"
             xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
             xsi:schemaLocation="
              http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0
              http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
      <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    
      <groupId>org.talend.components.hazelcast</groupId>
      <artifactId>hazelcast-component</artifactId>
      <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
      <packaging>jar</packaging>
    
      <name>Component Hazelcast</name>
      <description>A generated component project</description>
    
      <properties>
        <project.build.sourceEncoding>UTF-8</project.build.sourceEncoding>
    
        <!--
        Set it to true if you want the documentation to be rendered as HTML and PDF
    
        You can also use it in the command line: -Dtalend.documentation.htmlAndPdf=true
        -->
        <talend.documentation.htmlAndPdf>false</talend.documentation.htmlAndPdf>
    
        <!--
        if you want to deploy into the Studio you can use the related goal:
    
        mvn package talend-component:deploy-in-studio -Dtalend.component.studioHome=/path/to/studio
    
        TIP: it is recommended to set this property into your settings.xml in an active by default profile.
        -->
        <talend.component.studioHome />
      </properties>
    
      <dependencies>
        <dependency>
          <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
          <artifactId>component-api</artifactId>
          <version>1.1.12</version>
          <scope>provided</scope>
        </dependency>
      </dependencies>
    
      <build>
        <extensions>
          <extension>
            <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
            <artifactId>talend-component-maven-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>1.1.12</version>
          </extension>
        </extensions>
    
        <plugins>
          <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-compiler-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.8.1</version>
            <configuration>
              <source>1.8</source>
              <target>1.8</target>
              <forceJavacCompilerUse>true</forceJavacCompilerUse>
              <compilerId>javac</compilerId>
              <fork>true</fork>
              <compilerArgs>
                <arg>-parameters</arg>
              </compilerArgs>
            </configuration>
          </plugin>
          <plugin>
            <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
            <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
            <version>3.0.0-M3</version>
            <configuration>
              <trimStackTrace>false</trimStackTrace>
              <runOrder>alphabetical</runOrder>
            </configuration>
          </plugin>
        </plugins>
      </build>
    </project>
  3. Change the name tag to a more relevant value, for example: <name>Component Hazelcast</name>.

    • The component-api dependency provides the necessary API to develop the components.

    • talend-component-maven-plugin provides build and validation tools for the component development.

      The Java compiler also needs a Talend specific configuration for the components to work correctly. The most important is the -parameters option that preserves the parameter names needed for introspection features that TCK relies on.

  4. Download the mvn dependencies declared in the pom.xml file:

    $ mvn clean compile

    You should get a BUILD SUCCESS at this point:

    [INFO] Scanning for projects...
    [INFO]
    [INFO] -----< org.talend.components.hazelcast:talend-component-hazelcast >-----
    [INFO] Building Component :: Hazelcast 1.0.0-SNAPSHOT
    [INFO] --------------------------------[ jar ]---------------------------------
    [INFO]
    
    ...
    
    [INFO]
    [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [INFO] BUILD SUCCESS
    [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
    [INFO] Total time:  1.311 s
    [INFO] Finished at: 2019-09-03T11:42:41+02:00
    [INFO] ------------------------------------------------------------------------
  5. Create the project structure:

    $ mkdir -p src/main/java
    $ mkdir -p src/main/resources
  6. Create the component Java packages.

    Packages are mandatory in the component model and you cannot use the default one (no package). It is recommended to create a unique package per component to be able to reuse it as dependency in other components, for example to guarantee isolation while writing unit tests.
    $ mkdir -p src/main/java/org/talend/components/hazelcast
    $ mkdir -p src/main/resources/org/talend/components/hazelcast

The project is now correctly set up. The next steps consist in registering the component family and setting up some properties.

Registering the Hazelcast components family

Registering every component family allows the component server to properly load the components and to ensure they are available in Talend Studio.

Creating the package-info.java file

The family registration happens via a package-info.java file that you have to create.

Move to the src/main/java/org/talend/components/hazelcast package and create a package-info.java file:

@Components(family = "Hazelcast", categories = "Databases")
@Icon(value = Icon.IconType.CUSTOM, custom = "Hazelcast")
package org.talend.components.hazelcast;

import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Components;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon;
  • @Components: Declares the family name and the categories to which the component belongs.

  • @Icon: Defines the component family icon. This icon is visible in the Studio metadata tree.

Creating the internationalization file

Talend Component Kit supports internationalization (i18n) via Java properties files. Using these files, you can customize and translate the display name of properties such as the name of a component family or, as shown later in this tutorial, labels displayed in the component configuration.

Go to src/main/resources/org/talend/components/hazelcast and create an i18n Messages.properties file as below:

# An i18n name for the component family
Hazelcast._displayName=Hazelcast
Providing the family icon

You can define the component family icon in the package-info.java file. The icon image must exist in the resources/icons folder.

TCK supports both SVG and PNG formats for the icons.

  1. Create the icons folder and add an icon image for the Hazelcast family.

    $ mkdir -p /src/main/resources/icons

    This tutorial uses the Hazelcast icon from the official GitHub repository that you can get from: avatars3.githubusercontent.com/u/1453152?s=200&v=4

  2. Download the image and rename it to Hazelcast_icon32.png. The name syntax is important and should match <Icon id from the package-info>_icon.32.png.

The component registration is now complete. The next step consists in defining the component configuration.

Defining the Hazelcast component configuration

All Input and Output (I/O) components follow a predefined model of configuration. The configuration requires two parts:

  • Datastore: Defines all properties that let the component connect to the targeted system.

  • Dataset: Defines the data to be read or written from/to the targeted system.

Datastore

Connecting to the Hazelcast cluster requires the IP address, group name and password of the targeted cluster.

In the component, the datastore is represented by a simple POJO.

  1. Create a HazelcastDatastore.java class file in the src/main/java/org/talend/components/hazelcast folder.

    package org.talend.components.hazelcast;
    
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.Option;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.constraint.Required;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.type.DataStore;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.layout.GridLayout;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.widget.Credential;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.meta.Documentation;
    
    import java.io.Serializable;
    
    @GridLayout({ (1)
            @GridLayout.Row("clusterIpAddress"),
            @GridLayout.Row({"groupName", "password"})
    })
    @DataStore("HazelcastDatastore") (2)
    @Documentation("Hazelcast Datastore configuration") (3)
    public class HazelcastDatastore implements Serializable {
    
        @Option (4)
        @Required (5)
        @Documentation("The hazelcast cluster ip address")
        private String clusterIpAddress;
    
        @Option
        @Documentation("cluster group name")
        private String groupName;
    
        @Option
        @Credential (6)
        @Documentation("cluster password")
        private String password;
    
        // Getters & Setters omitted for simplicity
        // You need to generate them
    }
    1 @GridLayout: define the UI layout of this configuration in a grid manner.
    2 @DataStore: mark this POJO as being a data store with the id HazelcastDatastore that can be used to reference the datastore in the i18n files or some services
    3 @Documentation: document classes and properties. then TCK rely on those metadata to generate a documentation for the component.
    4 @Option: mark class’s attributes as being a configuration entry.
    5 @Required: mark a configuration as being required.
    6 @Credential: mark an Option as being a sensible data that need to be encrypted before it’s stored.
  2. Define the i18n properties of the datastore. In the Messages.properties file let add the following lines:

    #datastore
    Hazelcast.datastore.HazelcastDatastore._displayName=Hazelcast Connection
    HazelcastDatastore.clusterIpAddress._displayName=Cluster ip address
    HazelcastDatastore.groupName._displayName=Group Name
    HazelcastDatastore.password._displayName=Password

The Hazelcast datastore is now defined.

Dataset

Hazelcast includes different types of datastores. You can manipulate maps, lists, sets, caches, locks, queues, topics and so on.

This tutorial focuses on maps but still applies to the other data structures.

Reading/writing from a map requires the map name.

  1. Create the dataset class by creating a HazelcastDataset.java file in src/main/java/org/talend/components/hazelcast.

    package org.talend.components.hazelcast;
    
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.Option;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.type.DataSet;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.layout.GridLayout;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.meta.Documentation;
    
    import java.io.Serializable;
    
    @GridLayout({
            @GridLayout.Row("connection"),
            @GridLayout.Row("mapName")
    })
    @DataSet("HazelcastDataset")
    @Documentation("Hazelcast dataset")
    public class HazelcastDataset implements Serializable {
    
    
        @Option
        @Documentation("Hazelcast connection")
        private HazelcastDatastore connection;
    
        @Option
        @Documentation("Hazelcast map name")
        private String mapName;
    
        // Getters & Setters omitted for simplicity
        // You need to generate them
    
    }

    The @Dataset annotation marks the class as a dataset. Note that it also references a datastore, as required by the components model.

  2. Just how it was done for the datastore, define the i18n properties of the dataset. To do that, add the following lines to the Messages.properties file.

    #dataset
    Hazelcast.dataset.HazelcastDataset._displayName=Hazelcast Map
    HazelcastDataset.connection._displayName=Connection
    HazelcastDataset.mapName._displayName=Map Name

The component configuration is now ready. The next step consists in creating the Source that will read the data from the Hazelcast map.

Source

The Source is the class responsible for reading the data from the configured dataset.

A source gets the configuration instance injected by TCK at runtime and uses it to connect to the targeted system and read the data.

  1. Create a new class as follows.

    package org.talend.components.hazelcast;
    
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Version;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.Option;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Emitter;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.PartitionMapper;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Producer;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.meta.Documentation;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.record.Record;
    
    import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
    import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
    import java.io.IOException;
    import java.io.Serializable;
    
    @Version
    @Icon(value = Icon.IconType.CUSTOM, custom = "Hazelcast") (1)
    @Emitter(name = "Input") (2)
    @Documentation("Hazelcast source")
    public class HazelcastSource implements Serializable {
    
        private final HazelcastDataset dataset;
    
        public HazelcastSource(@Option("configuration") final HazelcastDataset configuration) {
            this.dataset = configuration;
        }
    
        @PostConstruct (3)
        public void init() throws IOException {
            //Here we can init connections
        }
    
        @Producer (4)
        public Record next() {
            // provide a record every time it is called. Returns null if there is no more data
            return null;
        }
    
        @PreDestroy (5)
        public void release() {
            // clean and release any resources
        }
    }
    1 The Icon annotation defines the icon of the component. Here, it uses the same icon as the family icon but you can use a different one.
    2 The class is annotated with @Emitter. It marks this class as being a source that will produce records.
    The constructor of the source class lets TCK inject the required configuration to the source. We can also inject some common services provided by TCK or other services that we can define in the component. We will see the service part later in this tutorial.
    3 The method annotated with @PostConstruct prepares resources or opens a connection, for example.
    4 The method annotated with @Producer retrieves the next record if any. The method will return null if no more record can be read.
    5 The method annotated with @PreDestroy cleans any resource that was used or opened in the Source.
  2. The source also needs i18n properties to provide a readable display name. Add the following line to the Messages.properties file.

    #Source
    Hazelcast.Input._displayName=Input
  3. At this point, it is already possible to see the result in the Talend Component Web Tester to check how the configuration looks like and validate the layout visually. To do that, execute the following command in the project folder.

    $ mvn clean install talend-component:web

    This command starts the Component Web Tester and deploys the component there.

  4. Access localhost:8080/.

    [INFO]
    [INFO] --- talend-component-maven-plugin:1.1.12:web (default-cli) @ talend-component-hazelcast ---
    [16:46:52.361][INFO ][.WebServer_8080][oyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol] Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"]
    [16:46:52.372][INFO ][.WebServer_8080][.catalina.core.StandardService] Starting service [Tomcat]
    [16:46:52.372][INFO ][.WebServer_8080][e.catalina.core.StandardEngine] Starting Servlet engine: [Apache Tomcat/9.0.22]
    [16:46:52.378][INFO ][.WebServer_8080][oyote.http11.Http11NioProtocol] Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-nio-8080"]
    [16:46:52.390][INFO ][.WebServer_8080][g.apache.meecrowave.Meecrowave] --------------- http://localhost:8080
    ...
    [INFO]
    
      You can now access the UI at http://localhost:8080
    
    
    [INFO] Enter 'exit' to quit
    [INFO] Initializing class org.talend.sdk.component.server.front.ComponentResourceImpl
tutorial hazelcast webtester

The source is set up. It is now time to start creating some Hazelcast specific code to connect to a cluster and read values for a map.

Source implementation for Hazelcast
  1. Add the hazelcast-client Maven dependency to the pom.xml of the project, in the dependencies node.

        <dependency>
          <groupId>com.hazelcast</groupId>
          <artifactId>hazelcast-client</artifactId>
          <version>3.12.2</version>
        </dependency>
  2. Add a Hazelcast instance to the @PostConstruct method.

    1. Declare a HazelcastInstance attribute in the source class.

      Any non-serializable attribute needs to be marked as transient to avoid serialization issues.
    2. Implement the post construct method.

      package org.talend.components.hazelcast;
      
      import com.hazelcast.client.HazelcastClient;
      import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientConfig;
      import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientNetworkConfig;
      import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
      import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon;
      import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Version;
      import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.Option;
      import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Emitter;
      import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Producer;
      import org.talend.sdk.component.api.meta.Documentation;
      import org.talend.sdk.component.api.record.Record;
      
      import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
      import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
      import java.io.Serializable;
      
      import static java.util.Collections.singletonList;
      
      @Version
      @Emitter(name = "Input")
      @Icon(value = Icon.IconType.CUSTOM, custom = "Hazelcast")
      @Documentation("Hazelcast source")
      public class HazelcastSource implements Serializable {
      
          private final HazelcastDataset dataset;
      
          /**
           * Hazelcast instance is a client in a Hazelcast cluster
           */
          private transient HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstance;
      
          public HazelcastSource(@Option("configuration") final HazelcastDataset configuration) {
              this.dataset = configuration;
          }
      
          @PostConstruct
          public void init() {
              //Here we can init connections
              final HazelcastDatastore connection = dataset.getConnection();
              final ClientNetworkConfig networkConfig = new ClientNetworkConfig();
              networkConfig.setAddresses(singletonList(connection.getClusterIpAddress()));
              final ClientConfig config = new ClientConfig();
              config.setNetworkConfig(networkConfig);
              config.getGroupConfig().setName(connection.getGroupName()).setPassword(connection.getPassword());
              hazelcastInstance = HazelcastClient.newHazelcastClient(config);
          }
      
          @Producer
          public Record next() {
              // Provides a record every time it is called. Returns null if there is no more data
              return null;
          }
      
          @PreDestroy
          public void release() {
              // Cleans and releases any resource
          }
      
      }

      The component configuration is mapped to the Hazelcast client configuration to create a Hazelcast instance. This instance will be used later to get the map from its name and read the map data. Only the required configuration in the component is exposed to keep the code as simple as possible.

  3. Implement the code responsible for reading the data from the Hazelcast map through the Producer method.

    package org.talend.components.hazelcast;
    
    import com.hazelcast.client.HazelcastClient;
    import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientConfig;
    import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientNetworkConfig;
    import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
    import com.hazelcast.core.IMap;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Version;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.Option;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Emitter;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Producer;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.meta.Documentation;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.record.Record;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.record.RecordBuilderFactory;
    
    import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
    import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
    import java.io.Serializable;
    import java.util.Iterator;
    import java.util.Map;
    
    import static java.util.Collections.singletonList;
    
    @Version
    @Emitter(name = "Input")
    @Icon(value = Icon.IconType.CUSTOM, custom = "Hazelcast")
    @Documentation("Hazelcast source")
    public class HazelcastSource implements Serializable {
    
        private final HazelcastDataset dataset;
    
        /**
         * Hazelcast instance is a client in a Hazelcast cluster
         */
        private transient HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstance;
    
        private transient Iterator<Map.Entry<String, String>> mapIterator;
    
        private final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory;
    
        public HazelcastSource(@Option("configuration") final HazelcastDataset configuration,
                final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory) {
            this.dataset = configuration;
            this.recordBuilderFactory = recordBuilderFactory;
        }
    
        @PostConstruct
        public void init() {
            //Here we can init connections
            final HazelcastDatastore connection = dataset.getConnection();
            final ClientNetworkConfig networkConfig = new ClientNetworkConfig();
            networkConfig.setAddresses(singletonList(connection.getClusterIpAddress()));
            final ClientConfig config = new ClientConfig();
            config.setNetworkConfig(networkConfig);
            config.getGroupConfig().setName(connection.getGroupName()).setPassword(connection.getPassword());
            hazelcastInstance = HazelcastClient.newHazelcastClient(config);
        }
    
        @Producer
        public Record next() {
            // Provides a record every time it is called. Returns null if there is no more data
            if (mapIterator == null) {
                // Gets the Distributed Map from Cluster.
                IMap<String, String> map = hazelcastInstance.getMap(dataset.getMapName());
                mapIterator = map.entrySet().iterator();
            }
    
            if (!mapIterator.hasNext()) {
                return null;
            }
    
            final Map.Entry<String, String> entry = mapIterator.next();
            return recordBuilderFactory.newRecordBuilder().withString(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue()).build();
        }
    
        @PreDestroy
        public void release() {
            // Cleans and releases any resource
        }
    }

    The Producer implements the following logic:

    • Check if the map iterator is already initialized. If not, get the map from its name and initialize the map iterator. This is done in the @Producer method to ensure the map is initialized only if the next() method is called (lazy initialization). It also avoids the map initialization in the PostConstruct method as the Hazelcast map is not serializable.

      All the objects initialized in the PostConstruct method need to be serializable as the source can be serialized and sent to another worker in a distributed cluster.
    • From the map, create an iterator on the map keys that will read from the map.

    • Transform every key/value pair into a Talend Record with a "key, value" object on every call to next().

      The RecordBuilderFactory class used above is a built-in service in TCK injected via the Source constructor. This service is a factory to create Talend Records.
    • Now, the next() method will produce a Record every time it is called. The method will return "null" if there is no more data in the map.

  4. Implement the @PreDestroy annotated method, responsible for releasing all resources used by the Source. The method needs to shut the Hazelcast client instance down to release any connection between the component and the Hazelcast cluster.

    package org.talend.components.hazelcast;
    
    import com.hazelcast.client.HazelcastClient;
    import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientConfig;
    import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientNetworkConfig;
    import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
    import com.hazelcast.core.IMap;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Version;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.Option;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Emitter;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Producer;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.meta.Documentation;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.record.Record;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.record.RecordBuilderFactory;
    
    import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
    import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
    import java.io.Serializable;
    import java.util.Iterator;
    import java.util.Map;
    
    import static java.util.Collections.singletonList;
    
    @Version
    @Emitter(name = "Input")
    @Icon(value = Icon.IconType.CUSTOM, custom = "Hazelcast")
    @Documentation("Hazelcast source")
    public class HazelcastSource implements Serializable {
    
        private final HazelcastDataset dataset;
    
        /**
         * Hazelcast instance is a client in a Hazelcast cluster
         */
        private transient HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstance;
    
        private transient Iterator<Map.Entry<String, String>> mapIterator;
    
        private final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory;
    
        public HazelcastSource(@Option("configuration") final HazelcastDataset configuration,
                final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory) {
            this.dataset = configuration;
            this.recordBuilderFactory = recordBuilderFactory;
        }
    
        @PostConstruct
        public void init() {
            //Here we can init connections
            final HazelcastDatastore connection = dataset.getConnection();
            final ClientNetworkConfig networkConfig = new ClientNetworkConfig();
            networkConfig.setAddresses(singletonList(connection.getClusterIpAddress()));
            final ClientConfig config = new ClientConfig();
            config.setNetworkConfig(networkConfig);
            config.getGroupConfig().setName(connection.getGroupName()).setPassword(connection.getPassword());
            hazelcastInstance = HazelcastClient.newHazelcastClient(config);
        }
    
        @Producer
        public Record next() {
            // Provides a record every time it is called. Returns null if there is no more data
            if (mapIterator == null) {
                // Get the Distributed Map from Cluster.
                IMap<String, String> map = hazelcastInstance.getMap(dataset.getMapName());
                mapIterator = map.entrySet().iterator();
            }
    
            if (!mapIterator.hasNext()) {
                return null;
            }
    
            final Map.Entry<String, String> entry = mapIterator.next();
            return recordBuilderFactory.newRecordBuilder().withString(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue()).build();
        }
    
        @PreDestroy
        public void release() {
            // Clean and release any resource
            if (hazelcastInstance != null) {
                hazelcastInstance.shutdown();
            }
        }
    }

The Hazelcast Source is completed. The next section shows how to write a simple unit test to check that it works properly.

Testing the Source

TCK provides a set of APIs and tools that makes the testing straightforward.

The test of the Hazelcast Source consists in creating an embedded Hazelcast instance with only one member and initializing it with some data, and then in creating a test Job to read the data from it using the implemented Source.

  1. Add the required Maven test dependencies to the project.

            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.junit.jupiter</groupId>
                <artifactId>junit-jupiter</artifactId>
                <version>5.5.1</version>
                <scope>test</scope>
            </dependency>
            <dependency>
                <groupId>org.talend.sdk.component</groupId>
                <artifactId>component-runtime-junit</artifactId>
                <version>1.1.12</version>
                <scope>test</scope>
            </dependency>
  2. Initialize a Hazelcast test instance and create a map with some test data. To do that, create the HazelcastSourceTest.java test class in the src/test/java folder. Create the folder if it does not exist.

    package org.talend.components.hazelcast;
    
    import com.hazelcast.core.Hazelcast;
    import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
    import com.hazelcast.core.IMap;
    import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
    import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
    import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
    
    import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
    
    class HazelcastSourceTest {
    
        private static final String MAP_NAME = "MY-DISTRIBUTED-MAP";
    
        private static HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstance;
    
        @BeforeAll
        static void init() {
            hazelcastInstance = Hazelcast.newHazelcastInstance();
            IMap<String, String> map = hazelcastInstance.getMap(MAP_NAME);
            map.put("key1", "value1");
            map.put("key2", "value2");
            map.put("key3", "value3");
            map.put("key4", "value4");
        }
    
        @Test
        void initTest() {
            IMap<String, String> map = hazelcastInstance.getMap(MAP_NAME);
            assertEquals(4, map.size());
        }
    
        @AfterAll
        static void shutdown() {
            hazelcastInstance.shutdown();
        }
    
    }

    The above example creates a Hazelcast instance for the test and creates the MY-DISTRIBUTED-MAP map. The getMap creates the map if it does not already exist. Some keys and values uses in the test are added. Then, a simple test checks that the data is correctly initialized. Finally, the Hazelcast test instance is shut down.

  3. Run the test and check in the logs that a Hazelcast cluster of one member has been created and that the test has passed.

    $ mvn clean test
  4. To be able to test components, TCK provides the @WithComponents annotation which enables component testing. Add this annotation to the test. The annotation takes the component Java package as a value parameter.

    package org.talend.components.hazelcast;
    
    import com.hazelcast.core.Hazelcast;
    import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
    import com.hazelcast.core.IMap;
    import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
    import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
    import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.junit5.WithComponents;
    
    import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
    
    @WithComponents("org.talend.components.hazelcast")
    class HazelcastSourceTest {
    
        private static final String MAP_NAME = "MY-DISTRIBUTED-MAP";
    
        private static HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstance;
    
        @BeforeAll
        static void init() {
            hazelcastInstance = Hazelcast.newHazelcastInstance();
            IMap<String, String> map = hazelcastInstance.getMap(MAP_NAME);
            map.put("key1", "value1");
            map.put("key2", "value2");
            map.put("key3", "value3");
            map.put("key4", "value4");
        }
    
        @Test
        void initTest() {
            IMap<String, String> map = hazelcastInstance.getMap(MAP_NAME);
            assertEquals(4, map.size());
        }
    
        @AfterAll
        static void shutdown() {
            hazelcastInstance.shutdown();
        }
    
    }
  5. Create the test Job that configures the Hazelcast instance and link it to an output that collects the data produced by the Source.

    package org.talend.components.hazelcast;
    
    import com.hazelcast.core.Hazelcast;
    import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
    import com.hazelcast.core.IMap;
    import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
    import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
    import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.record.Record;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.junit.BaseComponentsHandler;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.junit5.Injected;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.junit5.WithComponents;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.runtime.manager.chain.Job;
    
    import java.util.List;
    
    import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
    import static org.talend.sdk.component.junit.SimpleFactory.configurationByExample;
    
    @WithComponents("org.talend.components.hazelcast")
    class HazelcastSourceTest {
    
        private static final String MAP_NAME = "MY-DISTRIBUTED-MAP";
    
        private static HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstance;
    
        @Injected
        protected BaseComponentsHandler componentsHandler; (1)
    
        @BeforeAll
        static void init() {
            hazelcastInstance = Hazelcast.newHazelcastInstance();
            IMap<String, String> map = hazelcastInstance.getMap(MAP_NAME);
            map.put("key1", "value1");
            map.put("key2", "value2");
            map.put("key3", "value3");
            map.put("key4", "value4");
        }
    
        @Test
        void initTest() {
            IMap<String, String> map = hazelcastInstance.getMap(MAP_NAME);
            assertEquals(4, map.size());
        }
    
        @Test
        void sourceTest() { (2)
            final HazelcastDatastore connection = new HazelcastDatastore();
            connection.setClusterIpAddress(hazelcastInstance.getCluster().getMembers().iterator().next().getAddress().getHost());
            connection.setGroupName(hazelcastInstance.getConfig().getGroupConfig().getName());
            connection.setPassword(hazelcastInstance.getConfig().getGroupConfig().getPassword());
            final HazelcastDataset dataset = new HazelcastDataset();
            dataset.setConnection(connection);
            dataset.setMapName(MAP_NAME);
    
            final String configUri = configurationByExample().forInstance(dataset).configured().toQueryString(); (3)
    
            Job.components()
                    .component("Input", "Hazelcast://Input?" + configUri)
                    .component("Output", "test://collector")
                .connections()
                    .from("Input").to("Output")
                .build()
                .run();
    
            List<Record> data = componentsHandler.getCollectedData(Record.class);
            assertEquals(4, data.size()); (4)
        }
    
        @AfterAll
        static void shutdown() {
            hazelcastInstance.shutdown();
        }
    }
    1 The componentsHandler attribute is injected to the test by TCK. This component handler gives access to the collected data.
    2 The sourceTest method instantiates the configuration of the Source and fills it with the configuration of the Hazelcast test instance created before to let the Source connect to it.
    The Job API provides a simple way to build a DAG (Directed Acyclic Graph) Job using Talend components and then runs it on a specific runner (standalone, Beam or Spark). This test starts using the default runner only, which is the standalone one.
    3 The configurationByExample() method creates the ByExample factory. It provides a simple way to convert the configuration instance to an URI configuration used with the Job API to configure the component.
    4 The job runs and checks that the collected data size is equal to the initialized test data.
  6. Execute the unit test and check that it passes, meaning that the Source is reading the data correctly from Hazelcast.

    $ mvn clean test

The Source is now completed and tested. The next section shows how to implement the Partition Mapper for the Source. In this case, the Partition Mapper will split the work (data reading) between the available cluster members to distribute the workload.

Partition Mapper

The Partition Mapper calculates the number of Sources that can be created and executed in parallel on the available workers of a distributed system. For Hazelcast, it corresponds to the cluster member count.

To fully illustrate this concept, this section also shows how to enhance the test environment to add more Hazelcast cluster members and initialize it with more data.

  1. Instantiate more Hazelcast instances, as every Hazelcast instance corresponds to one member in a cluster. In the test, it is reflected as follows:

    package org.talend.components.hazelcast;
    
    import com.hazelcast.core.Hazelcast;
    import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
    import com.hazelcast.core.IMap;
    import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
    import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
    import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.record.Record;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.junit.BaseComponentsHandler;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.junit5.Injected;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.junit5.WithComponents;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.runtime.manager.chain.Job;
    
    import java.util.List;
    import java.util.UUID;
    import java.util.stream.Collectors;
    import java.util.stream.IntStream;
    
    import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
    import static org.talend.sdk.component.junit.SimpleFactory.configurationByExample;
    
    @WithComponents("org.talend.components.hazelcast")
    class HazelcastSourceTest {
    
        private static final String MAP_NAME = "MY-DISTRIBUTED-MAP";
    
        private static final int CLUSTER_MEMBERS_COUNT = 2;
    
        private static final int MAX_DATA_COUNT_BY_MEMBER = 50;
    
        private static List<HazelcastInstance> hazelcastInstances;
    
        @Injected
        protected BaseComponentsHandler componentsHandler;
    
        @BeforeAll
        static void init() {
            hazelcastInstances = IntStream.range(0, CLUSTER_MEMBERS_COUNT)
                    .mapToObj(i -> Hazelcast.newHazelcastInstance())
                    .collect(Collectors.toList());
            //add some data
            hazelcastInstances.forEach(hz -> {
                final IMap<String, String> map = hz.getMap(MAP_NAME);
                IntStream.range(0, MAX_DATA_COUNT_BY_MEMBER)
                        .forEach(i -> map.put(UUID.randomUUID().toString(), "value " + i));
            });
        }
    
        @Test
        void initTest() {
            IMap<String, String> map = hazelcastInstances.get(0).getMap(MAP_NAME);
            assertEquals(CLUSTER_MEMBERS_COUNT * MAX_DATA_COUNT_BY_MEMBER, map.size());
        }
    
        @Test
        void sourceTest() {
            final HazelcastDatastore connection = new HazelcastDatastore();
            HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstance = hazelcastInstances.get(0);
            connection.setClusterIpAddress(
                    hazelcastInstance.getCluster().getMembers().iterator().next().getAddress().getHost());
            connection.setGroupName(hazelcastInstance.getConfig().getGroupConfig().getName());
            connection.setPassword(hazelcastInstance.getConfig().getGroupConfig().getPassword());
            final HazelcastDataset dataset = new HazelcastDataset();
            dataset.setConnection(connection);
            dataset.setMapName(MAP_NAME);
    
            final String configUri = configurationByExample().forInstance(dataset).configured().toQueryString();
    
            Job.components()
                    .component("Input", "Hazelcast://Input?" + configUri)
                    .component("Output", "test://collector")
                    .connections()
                    .from("Input")
                    .to("Output")
                    .build()
                    .run();
    
            List<Record> data = componentsHandler.getCollectedData(Record.class);
            assertEquals(CLUSTER_MEMBERS_COUNT * MAX_DATA_COUNT_BY_MEMBER, data.size());
        }
    
        @AfterAll
        static void shutdown() {
            hazelcastInstances.forEach(HazelcastInstance::shutdown);
        }
    
    }

    The above code sample creates two Hazelcast instances, leading to the creation of two Hazelcast members. Having a cluster of two members (nodes) will allow to distribute the data.
    The above code also adds more data to the test map and updates the shutdown method and the test.

  2. Run the test on the multi-nodes cluster.

    mvn clean test
    The Source is a simple implementation that does not distribute the workload and reads the data in a classic way, without distributing the read action to different cluster members.
  3. Start implementing the Partition Mapper class by creating a HazelcastPartitionMapper.java class file.

    package org.talend.components.hazelcast;
    
    import com.hazelcast.client.HazelcastClient;
    import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientConfig;
    import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientNetworkConfig;
    import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Version;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.Option;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Assessor;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Emitter;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.PartitionMapper;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.PartitionSize;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Split;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.meta.Documentation;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.record.RecordBuilderFactory;
    
    import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
    import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
    import java.util.List;
    import java.util.UUID;
    
    import static java.util.Collections.singletonList;
    
    @Version
    @PartitionMapper(name = "Input")
    @Icon(value = Icon.IconType.CUSTOM, custom = "Hazelcast")
    @Documentation("Hazelcast source")
    public class HazelcastPartitionMapper {
    
        private final HazelcastDataset dataset;
    
        /**
         * Hazelcast instance is a client in a Hazelcast cluster
         */
        private transient HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstance;
    
        private final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory;
    
        public HazelcastPartitionMapper(@Option("configuration") final HazelcastDataset configuration,
                final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory) {
            this.dataset = configuration;
            this.recordBuilderFactory = recordBuilderFactory;
        }
    
        @PostConstruct
        public void init() {
            //Here we can init connections
            final HazelcastDatastore connection = dataset.getConnection();
            final ClientNetworkConfig networkConfig = new ClientNetworkConfig();
            networkConfig.setAddresses(singletonList(connection.getClusterIpAddress()));
            final ClientConfig config = new ClientConfig();
            config.setNetworkConfig(networkConfig);
            config.getGroupConfig().setName(connection.getGroupName()).setPassword(connection.getPassword());
            config.setInstanceName(getClass().getName()+"-"+ UUID.randomUUID().toString());
            config.setClassLoader(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
            hazelcastInstance = HazelcastClient.newHazelcastClient(config);
        }
    
        @Assessor
        public long estimateSize() {
            return 0;
        }
    
        @Split
        public List<HazelcastPartitionMapper> split(@PartitionSize final long bundleSize) {
            return null;
        }
    
        @Emitter
        public HazelcastSource createSource() {
            return null;
        }
    
        @PreDestroy
        public void release() {
            if(hazelcastInstance != null) {
                hazelcastInstance.shutdown();
            }
        }
    }

    When coupling a Partition Mapper with a Source, the Partition Mapper becomes responsible for injecting parameters and creating source instances. This way, all the attribute initialization part moves from the Source to the Partition Mapper class.

    The configuration also sets an instance name to make it easy to find the client instance in the logs or while debugging.

    The Partition Mapper class is composed of the following:

    • constructor: Handles configuration and service injections

    • Assessor: This annotation indicates that the method is responsible for assessing the dataset size. The underlying runner uses the estimated dataset size to compute the optimal bundle size to distribute the workload efficiently.

    • Split: This annotation indicates that the method is responsible for creating Partition Mapper instances based on the bundle size requested by the underlying runner and the size of the dataset. It creates as much partitions as possible to parallelize and distribute the workload efficiently on the available workers (known as members in the Hazelcast case).

    • Emitter: This annotation indicates that the method is responsible for creating the Source instance with an adapted configuration allowing to handle the amount of records it will produce and the required services.
      I adapts the configuration to let the Source read only the requested bundle of data.

Assessor

The Assessor method computes the memory size of every member of the cluster. Implementing it requires submitting a calculation task to the members through a serializable task that is aware of the Hazelcast instance.

  1. Create the serializable task.

    package org.talend.components.hazelcast;
    
    import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
    import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstanceAware;
    
    import java.io.Serializable;
    import java.util.concurrent.Callable;
    
    public abstract class SerializableTask<T> implements Callable<T>, Serializable, HazelcastInstanceAware {
    
        protected transient HazelcastInstance localInstance;
    
        @Override
        public void setHazelcastInstance(final HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstance) {
            localInstance = hazelcastInstance;
        }
    }

    The purpose of this class is to submit any task to the Hazelcast cluster.

  2. Use the created task to estimate the dataset size in the Assessor method.

    package org.talend.components.hazelcast;
    
    import com.hazelcast.client.HazelcastClient;
    import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientConfig;
    import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientNetworkConfig;
    import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
    import com.hazelcast.core.IExecutorService;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Version;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.Option;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Assessor;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Emitter;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.PartitionMapper;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.PartitionSize;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Split;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.meta.Documentation;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.record.RecordBuilderFactory;
    
    import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
    import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
    import java.util.List;
    import java.util.UUID;
    import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
    
    import static java.util.Collections.singletonList;
    
    @Version
    @PartitionMapper(name = "Input")
    @Icon(value = Icon.IconType.CUSTOM, custom = "Hazelcast")
    @Documentation("Hazelcast source")
    public class HazelcastPartitionMapper {
    
        private final HazelcastDataset dataset;
    
        /**
         * Hazelcast instance is a client in a Hazelcast cluster
         */
        private transient HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstance;
    
        private final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory;
    
        private transient IExecutorService executorService;
    
        public HazelcastPartitionMapper(@Option("configuration") final HazelcastDataset configuration,
                final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory) {
            this.dataset = configuration;
            this.recordBuilderFactory = recordBuilderFactory;
        }
    
        @PostConstruct
        public void init() {
            //Here we can init connections
            final HazelcastDatastore connection = dataset.getConnection();
            final ClientNetworkConfig networkConfig = new ClientNetworkConfig();
            networkConfig.setAddresses(singletonList(connection.getClusterIpAddress()));
            final ClientConfig config = new ClientConfig();
            config.setNetworkConfig(networkConfig);
            config.getGroupConfig().setName(connection.getGroupName()).setPassword(connection.getPassword());
            config.setInstanceName(getClass().getName()+"-"+ UUID.randomUUID().toString());
            config.setClassLoader(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
            hazelcastInstance = HazelcastClient.newHazelcastClient(config);
        }
    
        @Assessor
        public long estimateSize() {
            return getExecutorService().submitToAllMembers(new SerializableTask<Long>() {
    
                @Override
                public Long call() {
                    return localInstance.getMap(dataset.getMapName()).getLocalMapStats().getHeapCost();
                }
            }).values().stream().mapToLong(feature -> {
                try {
                    return feature.get();
                } catch (InterruptedException | ExecutionException e) {
                    throw new IllegalStateException(e);
                }
            }).sum();
        }
    
        @Split
        public List<HazelcastPartitionMapper> split(@PartitionSize final long bundleSize) {
              return null;
        }
    
        @Emitter
        public HazelcastSource createSource() {
            return null;
        }
    
        @PreDestroy
        public void release() {
            if(hazelcastInstance != null) {
                hazelcastInstance.shutdown();
            }
        }
    
        private IExecutorService getExecutorService() {
            return executorService == null ?
                    executorService = hazelcastInstance.getExecutorService("talend-executor-service") :
                    executorService;
        }
    }

    The Assessor method calculates the memory size that the map occupies for all members.
    In Hazelcast, distributing a task to all members can be achieved using an execution service initialized in the getExecutorService() method. The size of the map is requested on every available member. By summing up the results, the total size of the map in the distributed cluster is computed.

Split

The Split method calculates the heap size of the map on every member of the cluster. Then, it calculates how many members a source can handle.

If a member contains less data than the requested bundle size, the method tries to combine it with another member. That combination can only happen if the combined data size is still less or equal to the requested bundle size.

The following code illustrates the logic described above.

package org.talend.components.hazelcast;

import com.hazelcast.client.HazelcastClient;
import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientConfig;
import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientNetworkConfig;
import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
import com.hazelcast.core.IExecutorService;
import com.hazelcast.core.Member;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Version;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.Option;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Assessor;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Emitter;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.PartitionMapper;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.PartitionSize;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Split;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.meta.Documentation;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.record.RecordBuilderFactory;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
import java.util.AbstractMap;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;

import static java.util.Collections.singletonList;
import static java.util.Collections.synchronizedMap;
import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toList;
import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toMap;

@Version
@PartitionMapper(name = "Input")
@Icon(value = Icon.IconType.CUSTOM, custom = "Hazelcast")
@Documentation("Hazelcast source")
public class HazelcastPartitionMapper {

    private final HazelcastDataset dataset;

    /**
     * Hazelcast instance is a client in a Hazelcast cluster
     */
    private transient HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstance;

    private final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory;

    private transient IExecutorService executorService;

    private List<String> members;

    public HazelcastPartitionMapper(@Option("configuration") final HazelcastDataset configuration,
            final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory) {
        this.dataset = configuration;
        this.recordBuilderFactory = recordBuilderFactory;
    }

    private HazelcastPartitionMapper(final HazelcastDataset configuration,
            final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory, List<String> membersUUID) {
        this.dataset = configuration;
        this.recordBuilderFactory = recordBuilderFactory;
        this.members = membersUUID;
    }

    @PostConstruct
    public void init() {
        //Here we can init connections
        final HazelcastDatastore connection = dataset.getConnection();
        final ClientNetworkConfig networkConfig = new ClientNetworkConfig();
        networkConfig.setAddresses(singletonList(connection.getClusterIpAddress()));
        final ClientConfig config = new ClientConfig();
        config.setNetworkConfig(networkConfig);
        config.getGroupConfig().setName(connection.getGroupName()).setPassword(connection.getPassword());
        config.setInstanceName(getClass().getName() + "-" + UUID.randomUUID().toString());
        config.setClassLoader(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
        hazelcastInstance = HazelcastClient.newHazelcastClient(config);
    }

    @Assessor
    public long estimateSize() {
        return executorService.submitToAllMembers(
                () -> hazelcastInstance.getMap(dataset.getMapName()).getLocalMapStats().getHeapCost())
                .values()
                .stream()
                .mapToLong(feature -> {
                    try {
                        return feature.get();
                    } catch (InterruptedException | ExecutionException e) {
                        throw new IllegalStateException(e);
                    }
                })
                .sum();
    }

    @Split
    public List<HazelcastPartitionMapper> split(@PartitionSize final long bundleSize) {
        final Map<String, Long> heapSizeByMember =
                getExecutorService().submitToAllMembers(new SerializableTask<Long>() {

                    @Override
                    public Long call() {
                        return localInstance.getMap(dataset.getMapName()).getLocalMapStats().getHeapCost();
                    }
                }).entrySet().stream().map(heapSizeMember -> {
                    try {
                        return new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry<>(heapSizeMember.getKey().getUuid(),
                                heapSizeMember.getValue().get());
                    } catch (InterruptedException | ExecutionException e) {
                        throw new IllegalStateException(e);
                    }
                }).collect(toMap(AbstractMap.SimpleEntry::getKey, AbstractMap.SimpleEntry::getValue));

        final List<HazelcastPartitionMapper> partitions = new ArrayList<>(heapSizeByMember.keySet()).stream()
                .map(e -> combineMembers(e, bundleSize, heapSizeByMember))
                .filter(Objects::nonNull)
                .map(m -> new HazelcastPartitionMapper(dataset, recordBuilderFactory, m))
                .collect(toList());

        if (partitions.isEmpty()) {
            List<String> allMembers =
                    hazelcastInstance.getCluster().getMembers().stream().map(Member::getUuid).collect(toList());
            partitions.add(new HazelcastPartitionMapper(dataset, recordBuilderFactory, allMembers));
        }

        return partitions;
    }

    private List<String> combineMembers(String current, final long bundleSize, final Map<String, Long> sizeByMember) {

        if (sizeByMember.isEmpty() || !sizeByMember.containsKey(current)) {
            return null;
        }

        final List<String> combined = new ArrayList<>();
        long size = sizeByMember.remove(current);
        combined.add(current);
        for (Iterator<Map.Entry<String, Long>> it = sizeByMember.entrySet().iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
            Map.Entry<String, Long> entry = it.next();
            if (size + entry.getValue() <= bundleSize) {
                combined.add(entry.getKey());
                size += entry.getValue();
                it.remove();
            }
        }
        return combined;
    }

    @Emitter
    public HazelcastSource createSource() {
        return null;
    }

    @PreDestroy
    public void release() {
        if (hazelcastInstance != null) {
            hazelcastInstance.shutdown();
        }
    }

    private IExecutorService getExecutorService() {
        return executorService == null ?
                executorService = hazelcastInstance.getExecutorService("talend-executor-service") :
                executorService;
    }
}

The next step consists in adapting the source to take the Split into account.

Source

The following sample shows how to adapt the Source to the Split carried out previously.

package org.talend.components.hazelcast;

import com.hazelcast.client.HazelcastClient;
import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientConfig;
import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientNetworkConfig;
import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
import com.hazelcast.core.IMap;
import com.hazelcast.core.Member;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Producer;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.record.Record;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.record.RecordBuilderFactory;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.Iterator;
import java.util.List;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
import java.util.concurrent.Future;

import static java.util.Collections.singletonList;
import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toMap;

public class HazelcastSource implements Serializable {

    private final HazelcastDataset dataset;

    private transient HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstance;

    private final List<String> members;

    private transient Iterator<Map.Entry<String, String>> mapIterator;

    private final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory;

    private transient Iterator<Map.Entry<Member, Future<Map<String, String>>>> dataByMember;

    public HazelcastSource(final HazelcastDataset configuration, final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory,
            final List<String> members) {
        this.dataset = configuration;
        this.recordBuilderFactory = recordBuilderFactory;
        this.members = members;
    }

    @PostConstruct
    public void init() {
        //Here we can init connections
        final HazelcastDatastore connection = dataset.getConnection();
        final ClientNetworkConfig networkConfig = new ClientNetworkConfig();
        networkConfig.setAddresses(singletonList(connection.getClusterIpAddress()));
        final ClientConfig config = new ClientConfig();
        config.setNetworkConfig(networkConfig);
        config.getGroupConfig().setName(connection.getGroupName()).setPassword(connection.getPassword());
        config.setInstanceName(getClass().getName() + "-" + UUID.randomUUID().toString());
        config.setClassLoader(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
        hazelcastInstance = HazelcastClient.newHazelcastClient(config);
    }

    @Producer
    public Record next() {
        if (dataByMember == null) {
            dataByMember = hazelcastInstance.getExecutorService("talend-source")
                    .submitToMembers(new SerializableTask<Map<String, String>>() {

                        @Override
                        public Map<String, String> call() {
                            final IMap<String, String> map = localInstance.getMap(dataset.getMapName());
                            final Set<String> localKeySet = map.localKeySet();
                            return localKeySet.stream().collect(toMap(k -> k, map::get));
                        }
                    }, member -> members.contains(member.getUuid()))
                    .entrySet()
                    .iterator();
        }

        if (mapIterator != null && !mapIterator.hasNext() && !dataByMember.hasNext()) {
            return null;
        }

        if (mapIterator == null || !mapIterator.hasNext()) {
            Map.Entry<Member, Future<Map<String, String>>> next = dataByMember.next();
            try {
                mapIterator = next.getValue().get().entrySet().iterator();
            } catch (InterruptedException | ExecutionException e) {
                throw new IllegalStateException(e);
            }
        }

        Map.Entry<String, String> entry = mapIterator.next();
        return recordBuilderFactory.newRecordBuilder().withString(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue()).build();

    }

    @PreDestroy
    public void release() {
        if (hazelcastInstance != null) {
            hazelcastInstance.shutdown();
        }
    }
}

The next method reads the data from the members received from the Partition Mapper.

A Big Data runner like Spark will get multiple Source instances. Every source instance will be responsible for reading data from a specific set of members already calculated by the Partition Mapper.

The data is fetched only when the next method is called. This logic allows to stream the data from members without loading it all into the memory.

Emitter
  1. Implement the method annotated with @Emitter in the HazelcastPartitionMapper class.

    package org.talend.components.hazelcast;
    
    import com.hazelcast.client.HazelcastClient;
    import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientConfig;
    import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientNetworkConfig;
    import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
    import com.hazelcast.core.IExecutorService;
    import com.hazelcast.core.Member;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Version;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.Option;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Assessor;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Emitter;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.PartitionMapper;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.PartitionSize;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Split;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.meta.Documentation;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.record.RecordBuilderFactory;
    
    import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
    import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
    import java.io.Serializable;
    import java.util.AbstractMap;
    import java.util.ArrayList;
    import java.util.Iterator;
    import java.util.List;
    import java.util.Map;
    import java.util.Objects;
    import java.util.UUID;
    import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
    
    import static java.util.Collections.singletonList;
    import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toList;
    import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toMap;
    
    @Version
    @PartitionMapper(name = "Input")
    @Icon(value = Icon.IconType.CUSTOM, custom = "Hazelcast")
    @Documentation("Hazelcast source")
    public class HazelcastPartitionMapper implements Serializable {
    
        private final HazelcastDataset dataset;
    
        /**
         * Hazelcast instance is a client in a Hazelcast cluster
         */
        private transient HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstance;
    
        private final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory;
    
        private transient IExecutorService executorService;
    
        private List<String> members;
    
        public HazelcastPartitionMapper(@Option("configuration") final HazelcastDataset configuration,
                final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory) {
            this.dataset = configuration;
            this.recordBuilderFactory = recordBuilderFactory;
        }
    
        private HazelcastPartitionMapper(final HazelcastDataset configuration,
                final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory, List<String> membersUUID) {
            this.dataset = configuration;
            this.recordBuilderFactory = recordBuilderFactory;
            this.members = membersUUID;
        }
    
        @PostConstruct
        public void init() {
            //Here we can init connections
            final HazelcastDatastore connection = dataset.getConnection();
            final ClientNetworkConfig networkConfig = new ClientNetworkConfig();
            networkConfig.setAddresses(singletonList(connection.getClusterIpAddress()));
            final ClientConfig config = new ClientConfig();
            config.setNetworkConfig(networkConfig);
            config.getGroupConfig().setName(connection.getGroupName()).setPassword(connection.getPassword());
            config.setInstanceName(getClass().getName() + "-" + UUID.randomUUID().toString());
            config.setClassLoader(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
            hazelcastInstance = HazelcastClient.newHazelcastClient(config);
        }
    
        @Assessor
        public long estimateSize() {
            return getExecutorService().submitToAllMembers(new SerializableTask<Long>() {
    
                @Override
                public Long call() {
                    return localInstance.getMap(dataset.getMapName()).getLocalMapStats().getHeapCost();
                }
            }).values().stream().mapToLong(feature -> {
                try {
                    return feature.get();
                } catch (InterruptedException | ExecutionException e) {
                    throw new IllegalStateException(e);
                }
            }).sum();
        }
    
        @Split
        public List<HazelcastPartitionMapper> split(@PartitionSize final long bundleSize) {
            final Map<String, Long> heapSizeByMember =
                    getExecutorService().submitToAllMembers(new SerializableTask<Long>() {
    
                        @Override
                        public Long call() {
                            return localInstance.getMap(dataset.getMapName()).getLocalMapStats().getHeapCost();
                        }
                    }).entrySet().stream().map(heapSizeMember -> {
                        try {
                            return new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry<>(heapSizeMember.getKey().getUuid(),
                                    heapSizeMember.getValue().get());
                        } catch (InterruptedException | ExecutionException e) {
                            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
                        }
                    }).collect(toMap(AbstractMap.SimpleEntry::getKey, AbstractMap.SimpleEntry::getValue));
    
            final List<HazelcastPartitionMapper> partitions = new ArrayList<>(heapSizeByMember.keySet()).stream()
                    .map(e -> combineMembers(e, bundleSize, heapSizeByMember))
                    .filter(Objects::nonNull)
                    .map(m -> new HazelcastPartitionMapper(dataset, recordBuilderFactory, m))
                    .collect(toList());
    
            if (partitions.isEmpty()) {
                List<String> allMembers =
                        hazelcastInstance.getCluster().getMembers().stream().map(Member::getUuid).collect(toList());
                partitions.add(new HazelcastPartitionMapper(dataset, recordBuilderFactory, allMembers));
            }
    
            return partitions;
        }
    
        private List<String> combineMembers(String current, final long bundleSize, final Map<String, Long> sizeByMember) {
    
            if (sizeByMember.isEmpty() || !sizeByMember.containsKey(current)) {
                return null;
            }
    
            final List<String> combined = new ArrayList<>();
            long size = sizeByMember.remove(current);
            combined.add(current);
            for (Iterator<Map.Entry<String, Long>> it = sizeByMember.entrySet().iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
                Map.Entry<String, Long> entry = it.next();
                if (size + entry.getValue() <= bundleSize) {
                    combined.add(entry.getKey());
                    size += entry.getValue();
                    it.remove();
                }
            }
            return combined;
        }
    
        @Emitter
        public HazelcastSource createSource() {
            return new HazelcastSource(dataset, recordBuilderFactory, members);
        }
    
        @PreDestroy
        public void release() {
            if (hazelcastInstance != null) {
                hazelcastInstance.shutdown();
            }
        }
    
        private IExecutorService getExecutorService() {
            return executorService == null ?
                    executorService = hazelcastInstance.getExecutorService("talend-executor-service") :
                    executorService;
        }
    }

    The createSource() method creates the source instance and passes the required services and the selected Hazelcast members to the source instance.

  2. Run the test and check that it works as intended.

$ mvn clean test

The component implementation is now done. It is able to read data and to distribute the workload to available members in a Big Data execution environment.

Introducing TCK services

Refactor the component by introducing a service to make some pieces of code reusable and avoid code duplication.

  1. Refactor the Hazelcast instance creation into a service.

    package org.talend.components.hazelcast;
    
    import com.hazelcast.client.HazelcastClient;
    import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientConfig;
    import com.hazelcast.client.config.ClientNetworkConfig;
    import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
    import com.hazelcast.core.IExecutorService;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.Service;
    
    import java.io.Serializable;
    import java.util.UUID;
    
    import static java.util.Collections.singletonList;
    
    @Service
    public class HazelcastService implements Serializable {
    
        private transient HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstance;
    
        private transient IExecutorService executorService;
    
        public HazelcastInstance getOrCreateIntance(final HazelcastDatastore connection) {
            if (hazelcastInstance == null || !hazelcastInstance.getLifecycleService().isRunning()) {
                final ClientNetworkConfig networkConfig = new ClientNetworkConfig();
                networkConfig.setAddresses(singletonList(connection.getClusterIpAddress()));
                final ClientConfig config = new ClientConfig();
                config.setNetworkConfig(networkConfig);
                config.getGroupConfig().setName(connection.getGroupName()).setPassword(connection.getPassword());
                config.setInstanceName(getClass().getName() + "-" + UUID.randomUUID().toString());
                config.setClassLoader(Thread.currentThread().getContextClassLoader());
                hazelcastInstance = HazelcastClient.newHazelcastClient(config);
            }
            return hazelcastInstance;
        }
    
        public void shutdownInstance() {
            if (hazelcastInstance != null) {
                hazelcastInstance.shutdown();
            }
        }
    
        public IExecutorService getExecutorService(final HazelcastDatastore connection) {
            return executorService == null ?
                    executorService = getOrCreateIntance(connection).getExecutorService("talend-executor-service") :
                    executorService;
        }
    }
  2. Inject this service to the Partition Mapper to reuse it.

    package org.talend.components.hazelcast;
    
    import com.hazelcast.core.IExecutorService;
    import com.hazelcast.core.Member;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Version;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.Option;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Assessor;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Emitter;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.PartitionMapper;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.PartitionSize;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Split;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.meta.Documentation;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.record.RecordBuilderFactory;
    
    import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
    import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
    import java.io.Serializable;
    import java.util.AbstractMap;
    import java.util.ArrayList;
    import java.util.Iterator;
    import java.util.List;
    import java.util.Map;
    import java.util.Objects;
    import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
    
    import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toList;
    import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toMap;
    
    @Version
    @PartitionMapper(name = "Input")
    @Icon(value = Icon.IconType.CUSTOM, custom = "Hazelcast")
    @Documentation("Hazelcast source")
    public class HazelcastPartitionMapper implements Serializable {
    
        private final HazelcastDataset dataset;
    
        private final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory;
    
        private transient IExecutorService executorService;
    
        private List<String> members;
    
        private final HazelcastService hazelcastService;
    
        public HazelcastPartitionMapper(@Option("configuration") final HazelcastDataset configuration,
                final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory, final HazelcastService hazelcastService) {
            this.dataset = configuration;
            this.recordBuilderFactory = recordBuilderFactory;
            this.hazelcastService = hazelcastService;
        }
    
        private HazelcastPartitionMapper(final HazelcastDataset configuration,
                final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory, List<String> membersUUID,
                final HazelcastService hazelcastService) {
            this.dataset = configuration;
            this.recordBuilderFactory = recordBuilderFactory;
            this.hazelcastService = hazelcastService;
            this.members = membersUUID;
    
        }
    
        @PostConstruct
        public void init() {
            // We initialize the hazelcast instance only on it first usage now
        }
    
        @Assessor
        public long estimateSize() {
            return hazelcastService.getExecutorService(dataset.getConnection())
                    .submitToAllMembers(new SerializableTask<Long>() {
    
                        @Override
                        public Long call() {
                            return localInstance.getMap(dataset.getMapName()).getLocalMapStats().getHeapCost();
                        }
                    })
                    .values()
                    .stream()
                    .mapToLong(feature -> {
                        try {
                            return feature.get();
                        } catch (InterruptedException | ExecutionException e) {
                            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
                        }
                    })
                    .sum();
        }
    
        @Split
        public List<HazelcastPartitionMapper> split(@PartitionSize final long bundleSize) {
            final Map<String, Long> heapSizeByMember = hazelcastService.getExecutorService(dataset.getConnection())
                    .submitToAllMembers(new SerializableTask<Long>() {
    
                        @Override
                        public Long call() {
                            return localInstance.getMap(dataset.getMapName()).getLocalMapStats().getHeapCost();
                        }
                    })
                    .entrySet()
                    .stream()
                    .map(heapSizeMember -> {
                        try {
                            return new AbstractMap.SimpleEntry<>(heapSizeMember.getKey().getUuid(),
                                    heapSizeMember.getValue().get());
                        } catch (InterruptedException | ExecutionException e) {
                            throw new IllegalStateException(e);
                        }
                    })
                    .collect(toMap(AbstractMap.SimpleEntry::getKey, AbstractMap.SimpleEntry::getValue));
    
            final List<HazelcastPartitionMapper> partitions = new ArrayList<>(heapSizeByMember.keySet()).stream()
                    .map(e -> combineMembers(e, bundleSize, heapSizeByMember))
                    .filter(Objects::nonNull)
                    .map(m -> new HazelcastPartitionMapper(dataset, recordBuilderFactory, m, hazelcastService))
                    .collect(toList());
    
            if (partitions.isEmpty()) {
                List<String> allMembers = hazelcastService.getOrCreateIntance(dataset.getConnection())
                        .getCluster()
                        .getMembers()
                        .stream()
                        .map(Member::getUuid)
                        .collect(toList());
                partitions.add(new HazelcastPartitionMapper(dataset, recordBuilderFactory, allMembers, hazelcastService));
            }
    
            return partitions;
        }
    
        private List<String> combineMembers(String current, final long bundleSize, final Map<String, Long> sizeByMember) {
    
            if (sizeByMember.isEmpty() || !sizeByMember.containsKey(current)) {
                return null;
            }
    
            final List<String> combined = new ArrayList<>();
            long size = sizeByMember.remove(current);
            combined.add(current);
            for (Iterator<Map.Entry<String, Long>> it = sizeByMember.entrySet().iterator(); it.hasNext(); ) {
                Map.Entry<String, Long> entry = it.next();
                if (size + entry.getValue() <= bundleSize) {
                    combined.add(entry.getKey());
                    size += entry.getValue();
                    it.remove();
                }
            }
            return combined;
        }
    
        @Emitter
        public HazelcastSource createSource() {
            return new HazelcastSource(dataset, recordBuilderFactory, members, hazelcastService);
        }
    
        @PreDestroy
        public void release() {
            hazelcastService.shutdownInstance();
        }
    
    }
  3. Adapt the Source class to reuse the service.

    package org.talend.components.hazelcast;
    
    import com.hazelcast.core.IMap;
    import com.hazelcast.core.Member;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.input.Producer;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.record.Record;
    import org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.record.RecordBuilderFactory;
    
    import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
    import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
    import java.io.Serializable;
    import java.util.Iterator;
    import java.util.List;
    import java.util.Map;
    import java.util.Set;
    import java.util.concurrent.ExecutionException;
    import java.util.concurrent.Future;
    
    import static java.util.stream.Collectors.toMap;
    
    public class HazelcastSource implements Serializable {
    
        private final HazelcastDataset dataset;
    
        private final List<String> members;
    
        private transient Iterator<Map.Entry<String, String>> mapIterator;
    
        private final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory;
    
        private transient Iterator<Map.Entry<Member, Future<Map<String, String>>>> dataByMember;
    
        private final HazelcastService hazelcastService;
    
        public HazelcastSource(final HazelcastDataset configuration, final RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory,
                final List<String> members, final HazelcastService hazelcastService) {
            this.dataset = configuration;
            this.recordBuilderFactory = recordBuilderFactory;
            this.members = members;
            this.hazelcastService = hazelcastService;
        }
    
        @PostConstruct
        public void init() {
            // We initialize the hazelcast instance only on it first usage now
        }
    
        @Producer
        public Record next() {
            if (dataByMember == null) {
                dataByMember = hazelcastService.getOrCreateIntance(dataset.getConnection())
                        .getExecutorService("talend-source")
                        .submitToMembers(new SerializableTask<Map<String, String>>() {
    
                            @Override
                            public Map<String, String> call() {
                                final IMap<String, String> map = localInstance.getMap(dataset.getMapName());
                                final Set<String> localKeySet = map.localKeySet();
                                return localKeySet.stream().collect(toMap(k -> k, map::get));
                            }
                        }, member -> members.contains(member.getUuid()))
                        .entrySet()
                        .iterator();
            }
    
            if (mapIterator != null && !mapIterator.hasNext() && !dataByMember.hasNext()) {
                return null;
            }
    
            if (mapIterator == null || !mapIterator.hasNext()) {
                Map.Entry<Member, Future<Map<String, String>>> next = dataByMember.next();
                try {
                    mapIterator = next.getValue().get().entrySet().iterator();
                } catch (InterruptedException | ExecutionException e) {
                    throw new IllegalStateException(e);
                }
            }
    
            Map.Entry<String, String> entry = mapIterator.next();
            return recordBuilderFactory.newRecordBuilder().withString(entry.getKey(), entry.getValue()).build();
    
        }
    
        @PreDestroy
        public void release() {
            hazelcastService.shutdownInstance();
        }
    }
  4. Run the test one last time to ensure everything still works as expected.

Thank you for following this tutorial. Use the logic and approach presented here to create any input component for any system.

Implementing an Output component for Hazelcast

This tutorial is the continuation of Talend Input component for Hazelcast tutorial. We will not walk through the project creation again, So please start from there before taking this one.

This tutorial shows how to create a complete working output component for Hazelcast

Defining the configurable part and the layout of the component

As seen before, in Hazelcast there is multiple data source type. You can find queues, topics, cache, maps…​

In this tutorials we will stick with the Map dataset and all what we will see here is applicable to the other types.

Let’s assume that our Hazelcast output component will be responsible of inserting data into a distributed Map. For that, we will need to know which attribute from the incoming data is to be used as a key in the map. The value will be the hole record encoded into a json format.

Bu that in mind, we can design our output configuration as: the same Datastore and Dataset from the input component and an additional configuration that will define the key attribute.

Let’s create our Output configuration class.

package org.talend.components.hazelcast;

import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.Option;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.ui.layout.GridLayout;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.meta.Documentation;import java.io.Serializable;

@GridLayout({
                @GridLayout.Row("dataset"),
                @GridLayout.Row("key")
})
@Documentation("Hazelcast output configuration")
public class HazelcastOutputConfig implements Serializable {

    @Option
    @Documentation("the hazelcast dataset")
    private HazelcastDataset dataset;

    @Option
    @Documentation("The key attribute")
    private String key;


    // Getters & Setters omitted for simplicity
    // You need to generate them
}

Let’s add the i18n properties of our configuration into the Messages.properties file

# Output config
HazelcastOutputConfig.dataset._displayName=Hazelcast dataset
HazelcastOutputConfig.key._displayName=Key attribute

Output Implementation

The skeleton of the output component looks as follows:

package org.talend.components.hazelcast;

import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Version;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.Option;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.processor.ElementListener;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.meta.Documentation;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.processor.Processor;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.record.Record;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
import java.io.Serializable;

import static org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon.IconType.CUSTOM;

@Version
@Icon(custom = "Hazelcast", value = CUSTOM)
@Processor(name = "Output")
@Documentation("Hazelcast output component")
public class HazelcastOutput implements Serializable {

    public HazelcastOutput(@Option("configuration") final HazelcastOutputConfig configuration) {
    }

    @PostConstruct
    public void init() {
    }

    @PreDestroy
    public void release() {
    }

    @ElementListener
    public void onElement(final Record record) {
    }

}
  • @Version annotation indicates the version of the component. It is used to migrate the component configuration if needed.

  • @Icon annotation indicates the icon of the component. Here, the icon is a custom icon that needs to be bundled in the component JAR under resources/icons.

  • @Processor annotation indicates that this class is the processor (output) and defines the name of the component.

  • constructor of the processor is responsible for injecting the component configuration and services. Configuration parameters are annotated with @Option. The other parameters are considered as services and are injected by the component framework. Services can be local (class annotated with @Service) or provided by the component framework.

  • The method annotated with @PostConstruct is executed once by instance and can be used for initialization.

  • The method annotated with @PreDestroy is used to clean resources at the end of the execution of the output.

  • Data is passed to the method annotated with @ElementListener. That method is responsible for handling the data output. You can define all the related logic in this method.

If you need to bulk write the updates accordingly to groups, see Processors and batch processing.

Now, we will need to add the display name of the Output to the i18n resources file Messages.properties

#Output
Hazelcast.Output._displayName=Output

Let’s implement all of those methods

Defining the constructor method

We will create the outpu contructor to inject the component configuration and some additional local and built in services.

Built in services are services provided by TCK.
package org.talend.components.hazelcast;

import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Version;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.Option;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.processor.ElementListener;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.meta.Documentation;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.processor.Processor;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.record.Record;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
import javax.json.bind.Jsonb;
import java.io.Serializable;

import static org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon.IconType.CUSTOM;

@Version
@Icon(custom = "Hazelcast", value = CUSTOM)
@Processor(name = "Output")
@Documentation("Hazelcast output component")
public class HazelcastOutput implements Serializable {

    private final HazelcastOutputConfig configuration;

    private final HazelcastService hazelcastService;

    private final Jsonb jsonb;

    public HazelcastOutput(@Option("configuration") final HazelcastOutputConfig configuration,
            final HazelcastService hazelcastService, final Jsonb jsonb) {
        this.configuration = configuration;
        this.hazelcastService = hazelcastService;
        this.jsonb = jsonb;
    }

    @PostConstruct
    public void init() {
    }

    @PreDestroy
    public void release() {
    }

    @ElementListener
    public void onElement(final Record record) {
    }

}

Here we find:

  • configuration is the component configuration class

  • hazelcastService is the service that we have implemented in the input component tutorial. it will be responsible of creating a hazelcast client instance.

  • jsonb is a built in service provided by tck to handle json object serialization and deserialization. We will use it to convert the incoming record to json format before inseting them into the map.

Defining the PostConstruct method

Nothing to do in the post construct method. but we could for example initialize a hazle cast instance there. but we will do it in a lazy way on the first call in the @ElementListener method

Defining the PreDestroy method
package org.talend.components.hazelcast;

import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Version;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.Option;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.processor.ElementListener;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.meta.Documentation;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.processor.Processor;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.record.Record;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
import javax.json.bind.Jsonb;
import java.io.Serializable;

import static org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon.IconType.CUSTOM;

@Version
@Icon(custom = "Hazelcast", value = CUSTOM)
@Processor(name = "Output")
@Documentation("Hazelcast output component")
public class HazelcastOutput implements Serializable {

    private final HazelcastOutputConfig configuration;

    private final HazelcastService hazelcastService;

    private final Jsonb jsonb;

    public HazelcastOutput(@Option("configuration") final HazelcastOutputConfig configuration,
            final HazelcastService hazelcastService, final Jsonb jsonb) {
        this.configuration = configuration;
        this.hazelcastService = hazelcastService;
        this.jsonb = jsonb;
    }

    @PostConstruct
    public void init() {
        //no-op
    }

    @PreDestroy
    public void release() {
        this.hazelcastService.shutdownInstance();
    }

    @ElementListener
    public void onElement(final Record record) {
    }

}

Shut down the Hazelcast client instance and thus free the Hazelcast map reference.

Defining the ElementListener method
package org.talend.components.hazelcast;

import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
import com.hazelcast.core.IMap;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Version;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.configuration.Option;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.meta.Documentation;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.processor.ElementListener;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.processor.Processor;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.record.Record;

import javax.annotation.PostConstruct;
import javax.annotation.PreDestroy;
import javax.json.bind.Jsonb;
import java.io.Serializable;

import static org.talend.sdk.component.api.component.Icon.IconType.CUSTOM;

@Version
@Icon(custom = "Hazelcast", value = CUSTOM)
@Processor(name = "Output")
@Documentation("Hazelcast output component")
public class HazelcastOutput implements Serializable {

    private final HazelcastOutputConfig configuration;

    private final HazelcastService hazelcastService;

    private final Jsonb jsonb;

    public HazelcastOutput(@Option("configuration") final HazelcastOutputConfig configuration,
            final HazelcastService hazelcastService, final Jsonb jsonb) {
        this.configuration = configuration;
        this.hazelcastService = hazelcastService;
        this.jsonb = jsonb;
    }

    @PostConstruct
    public void init() {
        //no-op
    }

    @PreDestroy
    public void release() {
        this.hazelcastService.shutdownInstance();
    }

    @ElementListener
    public void onElement(final Record record) {
        final String key = record.getString(configuration.getKey());
        final String value = jsonb.toJson(record);

        final HazelcastInstance hz = hazelcastService.getOrCreateIntance(configuration.getDataset().getConnection());
        final IMap<String, String> map = hz.getMap(configuration.getDataset().getMapName());
        map.put(key, value);
    }

}

We get the key attribute from the incoming record and then convert the hole record to a json string. Then we insert the key/value into the hazelcast map.

Testing the output component

Let’s create a unit test for our output component. The idea will be to create a job that will insert the data using this output implementation.

So, let’s create out test class.

package org.talend.components.hazelcast;

import com.hazelcast.core.Hazelcast;
import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
import com.hazelcast.core.IMap;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
import org.talend.sdk.component.junit.BaseComponentsHandler;
import org.talend.sdk.component.junit5.Injected;
import org.talend.sdk.component.junit5.WithComponents;

@WithComponents("org.talend.components.hazelcast")
class HazelcastOuputTest {

    private static final String MAP_NAME = "MY-DISTRIBUTED-MAP";

    private static HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstance;

    @Injected
    protected BaseComponentsHandler componentsHandler;

    @BeforeAll
    static void init() {
        hazelcastInstance = Hazelcast.newHazelcastInstance();
        //init the map
        final IMap<String, String> map = hazelcastInstances.getMap(MAP_NAME);

    }

    @AfterAll
    static void shutdown() {
        hazelcastInstance.shutdown();
    }

}

Here we start by creating a hazelcast test instance, and we initialize the map. we also shutdown the instance after all the test are executed.

Now let’s create our output test.

package org.talend.components.hazelcast;

import com.hazelcast.core.Hazelcast;
import com.hazelcast.core.HazelcastInstance;
import com.hazelcast.core.IMap;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.AfterAll;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.BeforeAll;
import org.junit.jupiter.api.Test;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.record.Record;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.Service;
import org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.record.RecordBuilderFactory;
import org.talend.sdk.component.junit.BaseComponentsHandler;
import org.talend.sdk.component.junit5.Injected;
import org.talend.sdk.component.junit5.WithComponents;
import org.talend.sdk.component.runtime.manager.chain.Job;

import java.util.List;
import java.util.UUID;
import java.util.stream.Collectors;
import java.util.stream.IntStream;

import static org.junit.jupiter.api.Assertions.assertEquals;
import static org.talend.sdk.component.junit.SimpleFactory.configurationByExample;

@WithComponents("org.talend.components.hazelcast")
class HazelcastOuputTest {

    private static final String MAP_NAME = "MY-DISTRIBUTED-MAP";

    private static HazelcastInstance hazelcastInstance;

    @Injected
    protected BaseComponentsHandler componentsHandler;

    @Service
    protected RecordBuilderFactory recordBuilderFactory;

    @BeforeAll
    static void init() {
        hazelcastInstance = Hazelcast.newHazelcastInstance();
        //init the map
        final IMap<String, String> map = hazelcastInstance.getMap(MAP_NAME);

    }

    @Test
    void outputTest() {
        final HazelcastDatastore connection = new HazelcastDatastore();
        connection.setClusterIpAddress(
                hazelcastInstance.getCluster().getMembers().iterator().next().getAddress().getHost());
        connection.setGroupName(hazelcastInstance.getConfig().getGroupConfig().getName());
        connection.setPassword(hazelcastInstance.getConfig().getGroupConfig().getPassword());
        final HazelcastDataset dataset = new HazelcastDataset();
        dataset.setConnection(connection);
        dataset.setMapName(MAP_NAME);

        HazelcastOutputConfig config = new HazelcastOutputConfig();
        config.setDataset(dataset);
        config.setKey("id");

        final String configUri = configurationByExample().forInstance(config).configured().toQueryString();

        componentsHandler.setInputData(generateTestData(10));
        Job.components()
                .component("Input", "test://emitter")
                .component("Output", "Hazelcast://Output?" + configUri)
                .connections()
                .from("Input")
                .to("Output")
                .build()
                .run();

        final IMap<String, String> map = hazelcastInstance.getMap(MAP_NAME);
        assertEquals(10, map.size());
    }

    private List<Record> generateTestData(int count) {
        return IntStream.range(0, count)
                .mapToObj(i -> recordBuilderFactory.newRecordBuilder()
                        .withString("id", UUID.randomUUID().toString())
                        .withString("val1", UUID.randomUUID().toString())
                        .withString("val2", UUID.randomUUID().toString())
                        .build())
                .collect(Collectors.toList());
    }

    @AfterAll
    static void shutdown() {
        hazelcastInstance.shutdown();
    }
}

Here we start preparing the emitter test component provided bt TCK that we use in our test job to generate random data for our output. Then, we use the output component to fill the hazelcast map.

By the end we test that the map contains the exact amount of data inserted by the job.

Run the test and check that it’s working.

$ mvn clean test

Congratulation you just finished your output component.

Creating components for a REST API

This tutorial shows how to create components that consume a REST API.

The component developed as example in this tutorial is an input component that provides a search functionality for Zendesk using its Search API.
Lombok is used to avoid writing getter, setter and constructor methods.

You can generate a project using the Talend Components Kit starter, as described in this tutorial.

Setting up the HTTP client

The input component relies on Zendesk Search API and requires an HTTP client to consume it.

The Zendesk Search API takes the following parameters on the /api/v2/search.json endpoint.

  • query : The search query.

  • sort_by : The sorting type of the query result. Possible values are updated_at, created_at, priority, status, ticket_type, or relevance. It defaults to relevance.

  • sort_order: The sorting order of the query result. Possible values are asc (for ascending) or desc (for descending). It defaults to desc.

Talend Component Kit provides a built-in service to create an easy-to-use HTTP client in a declarative manner, using Java annotations.

public interface SearchClient extends HttpClient { (1)

    @Request(path = "api/v2/search.json", method = "GET") (2)
    Response<JsonObject> search(@Header("Authorization") String auth,(3) (4)
            @Header("Content-Type") String contentType, (5)
            @Query("query") String query, (6)
            @Query("sort_by") String sortBy,
            @Query("sort_order") String sortOrder,
            @Query("page") Integer page
    );
}
1 The interface needs to extend org.talend.sdk.component.api.service.http.HttpClient to be recognized as an HTTP client by the component framework. This interface also provides the void base(String base) method, that allows to set the base URI for the HTTP request. In this tutorial, it is the Zendesk instance URL.
2 The @Request annotation allows to define the HTTP request path and method (GET, POST, PUT, and so on).
3 The method return type and a header parameter are defined.
The method return type is a JSON object: Response<JsonObject>. The Response object allows to access the HTTP response status code, headers, error payload and the response body that are of the JsonObject type in this case.
The response body is decoded according to the content type returned by the API. The component framework provides the codec to decode JSON content.
If you want to consume specific content types, you need to specify your custom codec using the @Codec annotation.
4 The Authorization HTTP request header allows to provide the authorization token.
5 Another HTTP request header defined to provide the content type.
6 Query parameters are defined using the @Query annotation that provides the parameter name.

No additional implementation is needed for the interface, as it is provided by the component framework, according to what is defined above.

This HTTP client can be injected into a mapper or a processor to perform HTTP requests.

Configuring the component

This example uses the basic authentication that supported by the API.

Configuring basic authentication

The first step is to set up the configuration for the basic authentication. To be able to consume the Search API, the Zendesk instance URL, the username and the password are needed.

@Data
@DataStore (1)
@GridLayout({ (2)
        @GridLayout.Row({ "url" }),
        @GridLayout.Row({ "username", "password" })
})
@Documentation("Basic authentication for Zendesk API")
public class BasicAuth {

    @Option
    @Documentation("Zendesk instance url")
    private final String url;

    @Option
    @Documentation("Zendesk account username (e-mail).")
    private final String username;

    @Option
    @Credential (3)
    @Documentation("Zendesk account password")
    private final String password;

    public String getAuthorizationHeader() { (4)
        try {
            return "Basic " + Base64.getEncoder()
                    .encodeToString((this.getUsername() + ":" + this.getPassword()).getBytes("UTF-8"));
        } catch (UnsupportedEncodingException e) {
            throw new RuntimeException(e);
        }
    }
}
1 This configuration class provides the authentication information. Type it as Datastore so that it can be validated using services (similar to connection test) and used by Talend Studio or web application metadata.
2 @GridLayout defines the UI layout of this configuration.
3 The password is marked as Credential so that it is handled as sensitive data in Talend Studio and web applications. Read more about sensitive data handling.
4 This method generates a basic authentication token using the username and the password. This token is used to authenticate the HTTP call on the Search API.

The data store is now configured. It provides a basic authentication token.

Configuring the dataset

Once the data store is configured, you can define the dataset by configuring the search query. It is that query that defines the records processed by the input component.

@Data
@DataSet (1)
@GridLayout({ (2)
        @GridLayout.Row({ "dataStore" }),
        @GridLayout.Row({ "query" }),
        @GridLayout.Row({ "sortBy", "sortOrder" })
})
@Documentation("Data set that defines a search query for Zendesk Search API. See API reference https://developer.zendesk.com/rest_api/docs/core/search")
public class SearchQuery {

    @Option
    @Documentation("Authentication information.")
    private final BasicAuth dataStore;

    @Option
    @TextArea (3)
    @Documentation("Search query.") (4)
    private final String query;

    @Option
    @DefaultValue("relevance") (5)
    @Documentation("One of updated_at, created_at, priority, status, or ticket_type. Defaults to sorting by relevance")
    private final String sortBy;

    @Option
    @DefaultValue("desc")
    @Documentation("One of asc or desc. Defaults to desc")
    private final String sortOrder;
}
1 The configuration class is marked as a DataSet. Read more about configuration types.
2 @GridLayout defines the UI layout of this configuration.
3 A text area widget is bound to the Search query field. See all the available widgets.
4 The @Documentation annotation is used to document the component (configuration in this scope). A Talend Component Kit Maven plugin can be used to generate the component documentation with all the configuration description and the default values.
5 A default value is defined for sorting the query result.

Your component is configured. You can now create the component logic.

Defining the component mapper

Mappers defined with this tutorial don’t implement the split part because HTTP calls are not split on many workers in this case.
@Version
@Icon(value = Icon.IconType.CUSTOM, custom = "zendesk")
@PartitionMapper(name = "search")
@Documentation("Search component for zendesk query")
public class SearchMapper implements Serializable {

    private final SearchQuery configuration; (1)
    private final SearchClient searchClient; (2)

    public SearchMapper(@Option("configuration") final SearchQuery configuration, final SearchClient searchClient) {
        this.configuration = configuration;
        this.searchClient = searchClient;
    }

    @PostConstruct
    public void init() {
        searchClient.base(configuration.getDataStore().getUrl()); (3)
    }

    @Assessor
    public long estimateSize() {
        return 1L;
    }

    @Split
    public List<SearchMapper> split(@PartitionSize final long bundles) {
        return Collections.singletonList(this); (4)
    }

    @Emitter
    public SearchSource createWorker() {
        return new SearchSource(configuration, searchClient); (5)
    }
}
1 The component configuration that is injected by the component framework
2 The HTTP client created earlier in this tutorial. It is also injected by the framework via the mapper constructor.
3 The base URL of the HTTP client is defined using the configuration URL.
4 The mapper is returned in the split method because HTTP requests are not split.
5 A source is created to perform the HTTP request and return the search result.

Defining the component source

Once the component logic implemented, you can create the source in charge of performing the HTTP request to the search API and converting the result to JsonObject records.

public class SearchSource implements Serializable {

    private final SearchQuery config; (1)
    private final SearchClient searchClient; (2)
    private BufferizedProducerSupport<JsonValue> bufferedReader; (3)

    private transient int page = 0;
    private transient int previousPage = -1;

    public SearchSource(final SearchQuery configuration, final SearchClient searchClient) {
        this.config = configuration;
        this.searchClient = searchClient;
    }

    @PostConstruct
    public void init() { (4)
        bufferedReader = new BufferizedProducerSupport<>(() -> {
            JsonObject result = null;
            if (previousPage == -1) {
                result = search(config.getDataStore().getAuthorizationHeader(),
                        config.getQuery(), config.getSortBy(),
                        config.getSortBy() == null ? null : config.getSortOrder(), null);
            } else if (previousPage != page) {
                result = search(config.getDataStore().getAuthorizationHeader(),
                        config.getQuery(), config.getSortBy(),
                        config.getSortBy() == null ? null : config.getSortOrder(), page);
            }
            if (result == null) {
                return null;
            }
            previousPage = page;
            String nextPage = result.getString("next_page", null);
            if (nextPage != null) {
                page++;
            }

            return result.getJsonArray("results").iterator();
        });
    }

    @Producer
    public JsonObject next() { (5)
        final JsonValue next = bufferedReader.next();
        return next == null ? null : next.asJsonObject();
    }

    (6)
    private JsonObject search(String auth, String query, String sortBy, String sortOrder, Integer page) {
        final Response<JsonObject> response = searchClient.search(auth, "application/json",
                query, sortBy, sortOrder, page);
        if (response.status() == 200 && response.body().getInt("count") != 0) {
            return response.body();
        }

        final String mediaType = extractMediaType(response.headers());
        if (mediaType != null && mediaType.contains("application/json")) {
            final JsonObject error = response.error(JsonObject.class);
            throw new RuntimeException(error.getString("error") + "\n" + error.getString("description"));
        }
        throw new RuntimeException(response.error(String.class));
    }

    (7)
    private String extractMediaType(final Map<String, List<String>> headers) {
        final String contentType = headers == null || headers.isEmpty()
                || !headers.containsKey(HEADER_Content_Type) ? null :
                headers.get(HEADER_Content_Type).iterator().next();

        if (contentType == null || contentType.isEmpty()) {
            return null;
        }
        // content-type contains charset and/or boundary
        return ((contentType.contains(";")) ? contentType.split(";")[0] : contentType).toLowerCase(ROOT);
    }
}
1 The component configuration injected from the component mapper.
2 The HTTP client injected from the component mapper.
3 A utility used to buffer search results and iterate on them one after another.
4 The record buffer is initialized with the init by providing the logic to iterate on the search result. The logic consists in getting the first result page and converting the result into JSON records. The buffer then retrieves the next result page, if needed, and so on.
5 The next method returns the next record from the buffer. When there is no record left, the buffer returns null.
6 In this method, the HTTP client is used to perform the HTTP request to the search API.
Depending on the HTTP response status code, the results are retrieved or an error is thrown.
7 The extractMediaType method allows to extract the media type returned by the API.

You now have created a simple Talend component that consumes a REST API.

To learn how to test this component, refer to this tutorial.

Testing a REST API

Testing code that consumes REST APIs can sometimes present many constraints: API rate limit, authentication token and password sharing, API availability, sandbox expiration, API costs, and so on.

As a developer, it becomes critical to avoid those constraints and to be able to easily mock the API response.

The component framework provides an API simulation tool that makes it easy to write unit tests.

This tutorial shows how to use this tool in unit tests. As a starting point, the tutorial uses the component that consumes Zendesk Search API and that was created in a previous tutorial. The goal is to add unit tests for it.

For this tutorial, four tickets that have the open status have been added to the Zendesk test instance used in the tests.

To learn more about the testing methodology used in this tutorial, refer to Component JUnit testing.

Creating the unit test

Create a unit test that performs a real HTTP request to the Zendesk Search API instance. You can learn how to create a simple unit test in this tutorial.

public class SearchTest {

    @ClassRule
    public static final SimpleComponentRule component = new SimpleComponentRule("component.package");

    @Test
    public void searchQuery() {
        // Initiating the component test configuration (1)
        BasicAuth basicAuth = new BasicAuth("https://instance.zendesk.com", "username", "password");
        final SearchQuery searchQuery = new SearchQuery(basicAuth, "type:ticket status:open", "created_at", "desc");

        // We convert our configuration instance to URI configuration (2)
        final String uriConfig = SimpleFactory.configurationByExample()
                        .forInstance(searchQuery)
                        .configured().toQueryString();

        // We create our job test pipeline (3)
        Job.components()
                .component("search", "zendesk://search?" + uriConfig)
                .component("collector", "test://collector")
                .connections()
                .from("search").to("collector")
                .build()
                .run();

        final List<JsonObject> res = component.getCollectedData(JsonObject.class);
        assertEquals(4, res.size());
    }
}
1 Initiating:
  • the authentication configuration using Zendesk instance URL and credentials.

  • the search query configuration to get all the open ticket, ordered by creation date and sorted in descending order.

2 Converting the configuration to a URI format that will be used in the job test pipeline, using the SimpleFactory class provided by the component framework. Read more about job pipeline.
3 Creating the job test pipeline. The pipeline executes the search component and redirects the result to the test collector component, that collects the search result. The pipeline is then executed. Finally, the job result is retrieved to check that the four tickets have been received. You can also check that the tickets have the open status.

The test is now complete and working. It performs a real HTTP request to the Zendesk instance.

Transforming the unit test into a mocked test

As an alternative, you can use mock results to avoid performing HTTP requests every time on the development environment. The real HTTP requests would, for example, only be performed on an integration environment.

To transform the unit test into a mocked test that uses a mocked response of the Zendesk Search API:

  1. Add the two following JUnit rules provided by the component framework.

    • JUnit4HttpApi: This rule starts a simulation server that acts as a proxy and catches all the HTTP requests performed in the tests. This simulation server has two modes :

      • capture : This mode forwards the captured HTTP request to the real server and captures the response.

      • simulation : this mode returns a mocked response from the responses already captured. This rule needs to be added as a class rule.

    • JUnit4HttpApi: This rule has a reference to the first rule. Its role is to configure the simulation server for every unit test. It passes the context of the running test to the simulation server. This rule needs to be added as a simple (method) rule.

Example to run in a simulation mode:

public class SearchTest {

    @ClassRule
    public static final SimpleComponentRule component = new SimpleComponentRule("component.package");

    private final MavenDecrypter mavenDecrypter = new MavenDecrypter();

    @ClassRule
    public static final JUnit4HttpApi API = new JUnit4HttpApi() (1)
                                                        .activeSsl(); (2)

    @Rule
    public final JUnit4HttpApiPerMethodConfigurator configurator = new JUnit4HttpApiPerMethodConfigurator(API); (3)

    @Test
    public void searchQuery() {
        // the exact same code as above
    }
1 Creating and starting a simulation server for this test class.
2 Activating SSL on the simulation server by calling the activeSsl() method. This step is required because the consumed API uses SSL.
3 Adding the simulation server configuration provider that provides the test context to the simulation server.
  1. Make the test run in capture mode to catch the real API responses that can be used later in the simulated mode.
    To do that, set a new talend.junit.http.capture environment variable to true. This tells the simulation server to run in a capture mode.

The captured response is saved in the resources/talend.testing.http package in a JSON format, then reused to perform the API simulation.

Testing a component

This tutorial focuses on writing unit tests for the input component that was created in this previous tutorial.

This tutorial covers:

  1. How to load components in a unit test.

  2. How to create a job pipeline.

  3. How to run the test in standalone mode.

The test class is as follows:

public class HazelcastMapperTest {

    @ClassRule
    public static final SimpleComponentRule COMPONENTS = new SimpleComponentRule(HazelcastMapperTest.class
                                                                                    .getPackage().getName()); (1)

    private static HazelcastInstance instance; (2)

    @BeforeClass
    public static void startInstanceWithData() { (3)
        instance = Hazelcast.newHazelcastInstance();
        final IMap<Object, Object> map = instance.getMap(HazelcastMapperTest.class.getSimpleName());
        IntStream.range(0, 100).forEach(i -> map.put("test_" + i, "value #" + i));
    }

    @AfterClass
    public static void stopInstance() { (4)
        instance.getLifecycleService().shutdown();
    }

    @Test
    public void run() { (5)
        Job.components() (6)
                .component("source", "Hazelcast://Input?configuration.mapName=" + HazelcastMapperTest.class.getSimpleName())
                .component("output", "test://collector")
            .connections()
                .from("source").to("output")
            .build()
            .run();

        final List<JsonObject> outputs = COMPONENTS.getCollectedData(JsonObject.class); (7)
        assertEquals(100, outputs.size());
    }
}
1 SimpleComponentRule is a JUnit rule that lets you load your component from a package. This rule also provides some test components like emitter and collector. Learn more about JUnit in this section.
2 Using an embedded Hazelcast instance to test the input component.
3 Creating an embedded Hazelcast instance and filling it with some test data. A map with the name of the test class is created and data is added to it.
4 Cleaning up the instance after the end of the tests.
5 Defining the unit test. It first creates a job pipeline that uses our input component.
6 The pipeline builder Job is used to create a job. It contains two components: the input component and the test collector component. The input component is connected to the collector component. Then the job is built and ran locally.
7 After the job has finished running. The COMPONENTS rule instance is used to get the collected data from the collector component. Once this is done, it is possible to do some assertion on the collected data.

Testing in a Continuous Integration environment

This tutorial shows how to adapt the test configuration of the Zendesk search component that was done in this previous tutorial to make it work in a Continuous Integration environment.

In the test, the Zendesk credentials are used directly in the code to perform a first capture of the API response. Then, fake credentials are used in the simulation mode because the real API is not called anymore.

However, in some cases, you can require to continue calling the real API on a CI server or on a specific environment.

To do that, you can adapt the test to get the credentials depending on the execution mode (simulation/passthrough).

Setting up credentials

These instructions concern the CI server or on any environment that requires real credentials.

This tutorial uses:

  • A Maven server that supports password encryption as a credential provider. Encryption is optional but recommended.

  • The MavenDecrypterRule test rule provided by the framework. This rule lets you get credentials from Maven settings using a server ID.

To create encrypted server credentials for the Zendesk instance:

  1. Create a master password using the command: mvn --encrypt-master-password <password>.

  2. Store this master password in the settings-security.xml file of the ~/.m2 folder.

  3. Encrypt the Zendesk instance password using the command: mvn --encrypt-password <zendesk-password>.

  4. Create a server entry under servers in Maven settings.xml file located in the ~/.m2 folder.

<server>
  <id>zendesk</id>
  <username>username@email.com</username>
  <password>The encrypted password {oL37x/xiSvwtlhrMQ=}</password>
</server>
You can store the settings-security.xml and settings.xml files elsewhere that the default location (~/.m2). To do that, set the path of the directory containing the files in the talend.maven.decrypter.m2.location environment variable.

Adapting the unit test

  1. Add the MavenDecrypterRule rule to the test class. This rule allows to inject server information stored in Maven settings.xml file to the test. The rule also decrypts credentials if they are encrypted.

public class SearchTest {

    @Rule
    public final MavenDecrypterRule mavenDecrypterRule = new MavenDecrypterRule(this);
}
  1. Inject the Zendesk server to the test. To do that, add a new field to the class with the @DecryptedServer annotation, that holds the server ID to be injected.

public class SearchTest {

    @Rule
    public final MavenDecrypterRule mavenDecrypterRule = new MavenDecrypterRule(this);

    @DecryptedServer("zendesk")
    private Server server;
}

The MavenDecrypterRule is able to inject the server instance into this class at runtime. The server instance contains the username and the decrypted password.

  1. Use the server instance in the test to get the real credentials in a secured manner.

BasicAuth basicAuth = new BasicAuth("https://instance.zendesk.com",
                            server.getUsername(),
                            server.getPassword());

Once modified, the complete test class looks as follows:

public class SearchTest {

    @ClassRule
    public static final SimpleComponentRule component = new SimpleComponentRule("component.package");

    private final MavenDecrypter mavenDecrypter = new MavenDecrypter();

    @ClassRule
    public static final JUnit4HttpApi API = new JUnit4HttpApi()
                                                        .activeSsl();

    @Rule
    public final JUnit4HttpApiPerMethodConfigurator configurator = new JUnit4HttpApiPerMethodConfigurator(API);

    @Rule
    public final MavenDecrypterRule mavenDecrypterRule = new MavenDecrypterRule(this);

    @DecryptedServer("zendesk")
    private Server server;

    @Test
    public void searchQuery() {
        // Initiating the component test configuration
        BasicAuth basicAuth = new BasicAuth("https://instance.zendesk.com", server.getUsername(), server.getPassword());
        final SearchQuery searchQuery = new SearchQuery(basicAuth, "type:ticket status:open", "created_at", "desc");

        // We convert our configuration instance to URI configuration
        final String uriConfig = SimpleFactory.configurationByExample()
                        .forInstance(searchQuery)
                        .configured().toQueryString();

        // We create our job test pipeline
        Job.components()
                .component("search", "zendesk://search?" + uriConfig)
                .component("collector", "test://collector")
                .connections()
                .from("search").to("collector")
                .build()
                .run();

        final List<JsonObject> res = component.getCollectedData(JsonObject.class);
        assertEquals(4, res.size());
    }
}

This test will continue to work in simulation mode, because the API simulation proxy is activated.

Setting up the CI server in passthrough mode

This tutorial shows how to set up a CI server in passthrough mode using Jenkins.

  1. Log in to Jenkins.

  2. Click New Item to create a new build job.

    Create a new job
  3. Enter an Item name (Job name) and choose the freestyle job. Then click OK.

    Create a new job
  4. In the Source Code Management section, enter your project repository URL. A GitHub repository is used in this tutorial.

  5. Specify the master branch as Branches to build.

    Source Code Management
  6. In the Build section, click Add build step and choose Invoke top-level Maven targets.

    Build Section
  7. Choose your Maven version and enter the Maven build command. In this case: clean install. Then, click Save.

    Build Section

    The -Dtalend.junit.http.passthrough=true option is part of the build command. This option tells the API simulation proxy to run in passthrough mode. This way, all the HTTP requests made in the test are forwarded to the real API server.

    The MavenDecrypterRule rule allows to get the real credentials.

    You can configure the passthrough mode globally on your CI server by setting the talend.junit.http.passthrough environment variable to true.
  8. Test the job by selecting Build now, and check that the job has built correctly.

    Test the job

Now your tests run in a simulation mode on your development environment and in a passthrough mode on your CI server.

Handling component version migration

Talend Component Kit provides a migration mechanism between two versions of a component to let you ensure backward compatibility.

For example, a new version of a component may have some new options that need to be remapped, set with a default value in the older versions, or disabled.

This tutorial shows how to create a migration handler for a component that needs to be upgraded from a version 1 to a version 2. The upgrade to the newer version includes adding new options to the component.

This tutorial assumes that you know the basics about component development and are familiar with component project generation and implementation.

Requirements

To follow this tutorial, you need:

  • Java 8

  • A Talend component development environment using Talend Component Kit. Refer to this document.

  • Have generated a project containing a simple processor component using the Talend Component Kit Starter.

Creating the version 1 of the component

First, create a simple processor component configured as follows:

  1. Create a simple configuration class that represents a basic authentication and that can be used in any component requiring this kind of authentication.

    @GridLayout({
            @GridLayout.Row({ "username", "password" })
    })
    public class BasicAuth {
    
        @Option
        @Documentation("username to authenticate")
        private String username;
    
        @Option
        @Credential
        @Documentation("user password")
        private String password;
    }
  1. Create a simple output component that uses the configuration defined earlier. The component configuration is injected into the component constructor.

    @Version(1)
    @Icon(Icon.IconType.DEFAULT)
    @Processor(name = "MyOutput")
    @Documentation("A simple output component")
    public class MyOutput implements Serializable {
    
        private final BasicAuth configuration;
    
        public MyOutput(@Option("configuration") final BasicAuth configuration) {
            this.configuration = configuration;
        }
    
        @ElementListener
        public void onNext(@Input final JsonObject record) {
        }
    }
    The version of the configuration class corresponds to the component version.

By configuring these two classes, the first version of the component is ready to use a simple authentication mechanism.

Now, assuming that the component needs to support a new authentication mode following a new requirement, the next steps are:

  • Creating a version 2 of the component that supports the new authentication mode.

  • Handling migration from the first version to the new version.

Creating the version 2 of the component

The second version of the component needs to support a new authentication method and let the user choose the authentication mode he wants to use using a dropdown list.

  1. Add an Oauth2 authentication mode to the component in addition to the basic mode. For example:

    @GridLayout({
            @GridLayout.Row({ "clientId", "clientSecret" })
    })
    public class Oauth2 {
    
        @Option
        @Documentation("client id to authenticate")
        private String clientId;
    
        @Option
        @Credential
        @Documentation("client secret token")
        private String clientSecret;
    }

    The options of the new authentication mode are now defined.

  1. Wrap the configuration created above in a global configuration with the basic authentication mode and add an enumeration to let the user choose the mode to use. For example, create an AuthenticationConfiguration class as follows:

    @GridLayout({
            @GridLayout.Row({ "authenticationMode" }),
            @GridLayout.Row({ "basic" }),
            @GridLayout.Row({ "oauth2" })
    })
    public class AuthenticationConfiguration {
    
        @Option
        @Documentation("the authentication mode")
        private AuthMode authenticationMode = AuthMode.Oauth2; // we set the default value to the new mode
    
        @Option
        @ActiveIf(target = "authenticationMode", value = {"Basic"})
        @Documentation("basic authentication")
        private BasicAuth basic;
    
        @Option
        @ActiveIf(target = "authenticationMode", value = {"Oauth2"})
        @Documentation("oauth2 authentication")
        private Oauth2 oauth2;
    
    
        /**
        * This enum holds the authentication mode supported by this configuration
        */
        public enum AuthMode {
            Basic,
            Oauth2;
        }
    }
    Using the @ActiveIf annotation allows to activate the authentication type according to the selected authentication mode.
  1. Edit the component to use the new configuration that supports an additional authentication mode. Also upgrade the component version from 1 to 2 as its configuration has changed.

    @Version(2) // upgrade the component version
    @Icon(Icon.IconType.DEFAULT)
    @Processor(name = "MyOutput")
    @Documentation("A simple output component")
    public class MyOutput implements Serializable {
    
        private final AuthenticationConfiguration configuration; // use the new configuration
    
        public MyOutput(@Option("configuration") final AuthenticationConfiguration configuration) {
            this.configuration = configuration;
        }
    
        @ElementListener
        public void onNext(@Input final JsonObject record) {
        }
    }

The component now supports two authentication modes in its version 2. Once the new version is ready, you can implement the migration handler that will take care of adapting the old configuration to the new one.

Handling the migration from the version 1 to the version 2

What can happen if an old configuration is passed to the new component version?

It simply fails, as the version 2 does not recognize the old version anymore. For that reason, a migration handler that adapts the old configuration to the new one is required. It can be achieved by defining a migration handler class in the @Version annotation of the component class.

An old configuration may already be persisted by an application that integrates the version 1 of the component (Studio or web application).
Declaring the migration handler
  1. Add a migration handler class to the component version.

    @Version(value = 2, migrationHandler = MyOutputMigrationHandler.class)
  1. Create the migration handler class MyOutputMigrationHandler.

    public class MyOutputMigrationHandler implements MigrationHandler{ (1)
    
           @Override
           public Map<String, String> migrate(final int incomingVersion, final Map<String, String> incomingData) { (2)
               // Here we will implement our migration logic to adapt the version 1 of the component to the version 2
               return incomingData;
           }
    }
    1 The migration handler class needs to implement the MigrationHandler interface.
    2 The MigrationHandler interface specifies the migrate method. This method references:
    • the incoming version, which is the version of the configuration that we are migrating from

    • a map (key, value) of the configuration, where the key is the configuration path and the value is the value of the configuration.

Implementing the migration handler
You need to be familiar with the component configuration path construction to better understand this part. Refer to Defining component layout and configuration.

As a reminder, the following changes were made since the version 1 of the component:

  • The configuration BasicAuth from the version 1 is not the root configuration anymore, as it is under AuthenticationConfiguration.

  • AuthenticationConfiguration is the new root configuration.

  • The component supports a new authentication mode (Oauth2) which is the default mode in the version 2 of the component.

To migrate the old component version to the new version and to keep backward compatibility, you need to:

  • Remap the old configuration to the new one.

  • Give the adequate default values to some options.

In the case of this scenario, it means making all configurations based on the version 1 of the component have the authenticationMode set to basic by default and remapping the old basic authentication configuration to the new one.

public class MyOutputMigrationHandler implements MigrationHandler{

       @Override
       public Map<String, String> migrate(final int incomingVersion, final Map<String, String> incomingData) {
           if(incomingVersion == 1){ (1)
               // remapping the old configuration (2)
               String userName = incomingData.get("configuration.username");
               String password = incomingData.get("configuration.password");
               incomingData.put("configuration.basic.username", userName);
               incomingData.put("configuration.basic.password", password);

               // setting default value for authenticationMode to Basic (3)
               incomingData.put("configuration.authenticationMode", "Basic");
           }

           return incomingData; (4)
       }
}
1 Safety check of the incoming data version to make sure to only apply the migration logic to the version 1.
2 Mapping the old configuration to the new version structure. As the BasicAuth is now under the root configuration class, its path changes and becomes configuration.basic.*.
3 Setting a new default value to the authenticationMode as it needs to be set to Basic for configuration coming from version 1.
4 Returning the new configuration data.
if a configuration has been renamed between 2 component versions, you can get the old configuration option from the configuration map by using its old path and set its value using its new path.

You can now upgrade your component without losing backward compatibility.

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