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Overview

You can use this Snap to read a binary data stream from the input view and write it to a specified file destination. Possible file destinations include: SLDB, HTTP, S3, FTP, SFTP, FTPS, or HDFS. If File permissions for the file are provided, the Snap set those permissions to the file. This is a Write Snap type.

Prerequisites

Support for Ultra Pipelines

Works in Ultra Pipelines.

Limitations

Files uploaded to SLFS have a 100-MB per file limit. This limit does not apply when writing to external storage. 

Known Issues

• This Snap does not create an output file when using the input from SAS Generator Snap configured with only the DELETE SAS permission. This is not the case when the target file exists.
• This Snap does not fail and turns green after execution despite providing an expired SAS URI. As a workaround, select Validate after write to fail the Snap in case of invalid credentials.

Snap Input and Output

{
        "filename": "ftp://ftp.Snaplogic.com/home/qatest/user_manual.pdf",
        "result": "overwritten",
        "original": {
            "content-type" : "application/json"
        }
    }

Account

This Snap uses account references created on the Accounts page of SnapLogic Manager to handle access to this endpoint. This Snap supports several account types, as listed in the table below, or no account. See Configuring Binary Accounts for information on setting up accounts that work with this Snap.

Account types supported by each protocol are as follows:

Required settings for account types are as follows:

Snap Settings

User type

before attempting recovery from a network failure.

Minimum value: 1

Default Value: 1
Example: 3

File permissions for various users

Choose one of the three standard user types. The available options are:

• owner
• group

• others

Each row can have only one user type and each user type should appear only once. Select one from the suggested list. Specify at most one row per user type.

Default Value: N/A
Example: owner

Specify the privilege to provide to the user on the file. The available permissions are:

• read
• write
• execute
• read+write
• read+execute
• write+execute
• read+write+execute

Default Value: N/A
Example: read+write+execute

Create directory if not present  

Select this checkbox to enable the Snap to create a new directory if the specified directory path does not exist. This field is not supported for HTTP, HTTPS, SLDB and SMB file protocols.

Default value: Not selected

Flush interval in kilobytes during the file upload. The Snap can flush a given size of data output stream written to the target file server. If the value is zero, the Snap flushes in maximum frequency after each byte block is written. Larger the value is, the less frequent flushes the Snap performs. Leave the property at default -1 for no flush during the upload. This property may help if the file upload experiences an intermittent failure. However, more frequent flushes will result in a slower file upload.

Default value: -1
Example: 100

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