About this task
This scenario describes how to use a routine. The Job uses just one component, which calls a system routine.
Procedure
- In the Palette, click File > Management, then drop a tFileTouch component onto the workspace. This component allows you to create an empty file.
- Double-click the component to open its Basic settings view in the Component tab.
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In the FileName field, enter the path to access
your file, or click [...] and browse the directory
to locate the file.
- Close the double inverted commas around your file extension as follows: "D:/Input/customer".txt.
- Add the plus symbol (+) between the closing inverted commas and the file extension.
- Press Ctrl+Space to open a list of all of the routines, and in the auto-completion list which appears, select Talend Date.getDate to use the Talend routine which allows you to obtain the current date.
- Modify the format of the date provided by default, if required.
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Enter the plus symbol (+) next to the getDate variable to
complete the routine call, and place double inverted commas around the file
extension.
Warning: If you are working on windows, the ":" between the hours and minutes and between the minutes and seconds must be removed.
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Press F6 to run the Job.
The tFileTouch component creates an empty file with the days date, retrieved upon execution of the GetDate routine called.