If needed, you can also define conversion rules to override the default conversion
behavior of tMap.
Procedure
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On the toolbar of the Studio main window, click
or
click from the menu bar to open the Project
Settings dialog box.
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In the tree view of the dialog box, expand General and
select Auto-Conversion of types to open the relevant
view.
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Select the Enable Auto-Conversion of types check box to
activate the automatic type conversion feature for all
tMap components added afterwards in the
project.
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If needed, click the [+] button to add a line, select
the source and target data types, and define a Java function for data type
conversion to create a conversion rule to override the default conversion
behavior of tMap for data that matches the rule.
You can press Ctrl+Space in the Conversion
Function field to access a list of available Java
functions.
The rule shown in this example will match mappings with the input data type
of String and output data type of Integer.
You can created as many conversion rules as you want.
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Click Apply to apply your changes and then
OK to close the dialog box.
