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Summary

This article briefs about implementing FOR loop in nformatica using Java Transformation.

























































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TabIe of Contents


NTRODUCTON ................................................................................................................................................ 3

REQUREMENT ................................................................................................................................................. 3
SOURCE ......................................................................................................................................................... 3
TARGET.......................................................................................................................................................... 3

SOLUTON OVERVEW ..................................................................................................................................... 4

SOLUTON STEPS............................................................................................................................................. 4
SOURCE ......................................................................................................................................................... 4
EXPRESSON TRANSFORMATON .............................................................................................................. 4
JAVA TRANSFORMATON ............................................................................................................................ 5
TARGET.......................................................................................................................................................... 6
OUTPUT ......................................................................................................................................................... 6

ADVANTAGES ................................................................................................................................................... 7

DSCLAMER AND LABLTY NOTCE ............................................................................................................. 8















































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INTRODUCTION

This article briefs about implementing FOR loop in nformatica using Java Transformation.

REQUIREMENT

Consider that we are receiving a '|' delimited flat file that contains the sales person's tour information.



SOURCE


SaIesperson Name | Tour from Date | Tour to Date | PIace
Sukumar | 20091117 | 20091119 | Chennai
Ram | 20091117 | 20091119 | Bangalore
Sukumar | 20091120 | 20091122 | Bangalore
Ram | 20091120 | 20091122 | Chennai


Our requirement is to generate Tour Table TARGET that contains the following



TARGET

SaIesperson Name

Date

PIace

Sukumar

20091117

Chennai

Sukumar

20091118

Chennai

Sukumar

20091119

Chennai

Sukumar

20091120

Bangalore

Sukumar

20091121

Bangalore

Sukumar

20091122

Bangalore

Ram

20091117

Bangalore

Ram

20091118

Bangalore

Ram

20091119

Bangalore

Ram

20091120

Chennai

Ram

20091121

Chennai

Ram

20091122

Chennai














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SOLUTION OVERVIEW

To achieve the above requirement we will be using the Java Transformation available in nformatica
PowerCenter.



SOLUTION STEPS



SOURCE


Delimited Flat File Tournfo.txt

SaIesperson Name | Tour from Date | Tour to Date | PIace
Sukumar | 20091117 | 20091119 | Chennai
Ram | 20091117 | 20091119 | Bangalore
Sukumar | 20091120 | 20091122 | Bangalore
Ram | 20091120 | 20091122 | Chennai


EXPRESSION TRANSFORMATION



Port Name

Data Type

Type

Expression

Description

String(255)




Salesperson Name

String(50)

O

Use the substring, instr function to
retrieve the sales person name
using the | delimiter.

FromDate

String(20)

V

Use the substring, instr function to
retrieve the 'From Date' using the |
delimiter.

ToDate

String(20)

V

Use the substring, instr function to
retrieve the 'To Date' name using
the | delimiter.

Place

String(20)

O

Use the substring, instr function to
retrieve the 'Place' using the |
delimiter.

FromDate_out

Date time

O

To_date(FromDate,YYYYMMDD)

ToDate_out

Date time

O

To_date(ToDate,YYYYMMDD)


Expression transformation is used for retrieving the values from the flat file source and assigns values to
individual ports.














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JAVA TRANSFORMATION


Drag the java transformation into the Mapping.

Create the following ports.

Port Name

Data Type

Type

Salesperson Name

String(50)

/O

FromDate

String(20)



ToDate

String(20)



Place

String(20)

/O

FromDate_out

Date time

O

ToDate_out

Date time

O

TourDate

DateTime

O


Link the FromDate_out, toDate_out from the Expression Transformation to the From Date and To
Date ports of the Java transformation.

Under the Java code tab; mport Package tab place the below code:

mport java.util.*;
mport java.text.*;

This is to import relevant java packages.

Under "On InputRow " tab place the Iollowing code


DateFormat formatter ;

formatter = new SimpleDateFormat("dd-MMM-yy");
FromDate_out =formatter.format(FromDate);
ToDate_out =formatter.format(ToDate);


Calendar startCal = Calendar.getnstance ( ) ;
Calendar endCal = Calendar.getnstance ( ) ;


Date date_start=new Date(FromDate.longValue());

startCal.setTime ( date_start) ;


Date date_end=new Date(ToDate.longValue());

endCal.setTime ( date_end) ;




for ( Calendar c = startCal; c.compareTo ( endCal ) <= 0; c.add
(Calendar.DAY_OF_WEEK, 1 ) )

{





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TourDate= formatter.format(c.getTime ());

generateRow();


}


The above code snippet uses the java calendar function.

You can see for loop construction based on the from date and the to date,

We need to link the salesperson name, Tour Date and Place ports from this java transformation
to the target.



TARGET


ReIationaI TabIe TOUR



Description
DataType

Sales Person name

String

Tour Date

Date time

Place

String





OUTPUT


Source:

Sukumar | 20091117 | 20091119 | Chennai


Target:



SaIesperson Name

Date

PIace

Sukumar

20091117

Chennai

Sukumar

20091118

Chennai

Sukumar

20091119

Chennai



Java transformation takes the 'from date' and 'to date' as input and a FOR loop is constructed.
For each input row based on the 'from date' and 'to date' java transformation will generate
multiple rows.

n our case for a single row in source we will be generating 3 rows in target.





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ADVANTAGES



Java transformation can be used to generate multiple rows based on a condition.

Normalizer can generate rows based on the 'Occurs' clause where we will specify a static number
but if you want to generate multiple rows based on a dynamic value then go for java transformation.