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Description:

This Snap routes binary documents to different output views based on a boolean expression.

A binary document consists of the binary content and a header that contains metadata for that content. For example, a file containing JSON data might have a header with a 'content-type' field set to 'application/json'. This Snap then allows you to separate a single stream of binary documents into multiple streams based on their header data. For example, when unzipping an archive with the ZipFile Read Snap, any files with a "content-type" of "application/json" could be sent to a JSON Parser and "text/xml" files could be sent to an XML Parser. The set of header fields available depends on the Snap that outputs the binary document. You can click on the preview icon for a binary view to see the content and headers that are being generated for each binary document. The following fields are often available:

Name	Example	Description
content-type	application/json	The MIME type for the binary content. If not available from the original source, this value will be derived from the file name.
content-length	1234	The length of the binary content.
content-location	sldb:///test.json	The URL for the original source of the binary stream.
last-modified	2014-07-17T17:12:03.000 UTC	The date that the binary was last modified.

Header fields are not yet available in the schema drop-down for the properties; consult the preview data to see what fields are available.

Prerequisites:

[None]

Support and limitations:

Works in Ultra Tasks.

Account:

Accounts are not used with this Snap.

Views:

Input	This Snap has exactly one binary input view.
Output	This Snap has at least two binary output view.
Error	This Snap has at most one document error view and produces zero or more documents in the view.

Settings

Label

Required. The name for the Snap. You can modify this to be more specific, especially if you have more than one of the same Snap in your pipeline.

Routes

Required. Expression to evaluate and output views to write a binary document if the expression evaluates to true. The Expression should be applied to the fields available in binary document header. List of expressions can be seen here .

Example:

$file_name == "File1"
$["content-length"] > 1000
$['content-location'].endsWith("File1")
startsWith($description, "Snap") && $quantity < 100

Default value: [None]

First match

If true (selected), then the first output view whose corresponding expression evaluates to true will only have the binary document written to it even if there are other matches. If false (not selected), then all output views whose corresponding expression evaluates to true will have the binary document written to it.

Example:

Expression | Output View Name
$["content-length"] > 1000 | output1
$["content-length"] <=1000 | output2

Default value: Not selected

Snap Execution

Select one of the three modes in which the Snap executes. Available options are:

Validate & Execute: Performs limited execution of the Snap, and generates a data preview during Pipeline validation. Subsequently, performs full execution of the Snap (unlimited records) during Pipeline runtime.
Execute only: Performs full execution of the Snap during Pipeline execution without generating preview data.
Disabled: Disables the Snap and all Snaps that are downstream from it.

Default Value: Execute only
Example: Validate & Execute

Examples

Pipeline Demonstrating the Binary Router Snap

This pipeline demonstrates the Binary Router Snap.

The first Snap reads a JSON document that contains three filenames. The JSON Splitter Snap turns it into three documents and the filename is passed as a parameter to the File Reader Snap. That Snap reads the first file, passes it to the Binary Router Snap where it is evaluated, a new file is written and then the next file is read and the process is repeated.

The evaluation in the Binary Router looks at the content-length and sends it to a different output view depending on size based on the following criteria:

$["content-length"] <= 10
$["content-length"] >= 11 && $["content-length"] <= 1023
$["content-length"] > 1024

Downloads

Important steps to successfully reuse Pipelines

Download and import the pipeline into the SnapLogic application.
Configure Snap accounts as applicable.
Provide pipeline parameters as applicable.

	File	Modified
Labels No labels Preview View	File Binary Router example pipeline.slp	Feb 04, 2022 by Subhajit Sengupta
Labels No labels Preview View	File Example_Binary_Document_foo607bytes.json	Feb 08, 2022 by Subhajit Sengupta
Labels No labels Preview View	File Example_Binary_Document_foo4962bytes.json	Feb 08, 2022 by Subhajit Sengupta
Labels No labels Preview View	File Example_Binary_Documentfoonodata.json	Feb 08, 2022 by Subhajit Sengupta

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Release	Snap Pack Version	Date	Type	Updates
February 2025	main29887	12 Feb 2025	Stable	Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.
November 2024	439patches29533	29 Jan 2025	Latest	The ForEach and the Task Execute Snaps are deprecated and removed from the Snaps Catalog. If your existing pipelines use these Snaps, contact support@snaplogic.com.
November 2024	main29029	13 Nov 2024	Stable	Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.
August 2024	438patches28470	22 Oct 2024	Latest	Added the PipeLoop Snap that enables you to loop on pipeline executions based on a stop condition or iteration limit. The execution workflow of this Snap enables the parent pipeline to control and manage iterative processes using the child pipeline, for scenarios where repeated processing is needed until a specific stop condition is met.
August 2024	438patches28047	16 Sep 2024	Latest	Enhanced the Head and Tail Snaps (for the Number of documents and Document offset fields) to support pipeline parameters via expressions that enable you to reuse the pipelines.
August 2024	main27765	21 Aug 2024	Stable	When the Router Snap was the first Snap in a triggered task, the documents were not processed. Previously, the response contained a `200 status code` but was empty. Now, it processes one document and provides non-empty output. Behavior change: Previously, the Router Snap generated no output without an input document. Now, the Snap generates an empty document when no input document is provided.
May 2024	437patches26857	10 Jul 2024	Latest	Enhanced the Pipeline Execute Snap to support expression values via pipeline parameters for the Batch size field that enables you to use intermediate pipelines for generic use cases.
May 2024	main26341	08 May 2024	Stable	Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.
March 2024	436patches25576	19 Mar 2024	Latest	Fixed an issue with the Pipeline Execute Snap where a condition resulted in the output documents not being read.
February 2024	main25112	14 Feb 2024	Stable	Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.
November 2023	main23721	08 Nov 2023	Stable	Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.
August 2023	434patches22576	23 Aug 2023	Latest	Fixed an issue with the Pipeline Execute Snap that caused a null pointer exception during the retry when the input view was a Binary type. Retry is not supported for a Binary input view with this Snap.
August 2023	main22460	16 Aug 2023	Stable	Updated and certified against the current SnapLogic Platform release.
May 2023	433patches22107	08 Aug 2023	Latest	Fixed an issue with the Pipeline Execute Snap that caused it to acknowledge the Ultra pipeline message before the message reached the last Snap in the pipeline. Because of the early acknowledgment, the last Snap in the pipeline failed and the response could not be sent back.
May 2023	433patches21744	28 Jun 2023	Latest	Fixed an issue with the Pipeline Execute Snap where a missing label produced a null pointer exception.
May 2023	433patches21196	25 May 2023	Latest	Fixed an issue with the Pipeline Execute Snap where no input view produced a null pointer exception.
May 2023	433patches21040	15 May 2023	Latest	Provided a fix to ensure the Data Validator works with "unknown" data types.
May 2023	main21015	10 May 2023	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
February 2023	432patches20279	29 Mar 2023	Latest	The Pipeline Execute Snap now returns errors from child pipelines with a unique identifier.
February 2023	432patches19695	07 Mar 2023	Latest	Fixed an issue with the Pipeline Execute Snap that was causing `Unable to create a deep copy of the object` errors. As of 29 Mar 2023 we have discovered an issue with this patch affecting the Pipeline Execute Snap. If you have pipelines leveraging the Pipeline Execute Snap, we recommend you NOT use this patch and instead use patch 432patches20279.
February 2023	main19844	09 Feb 2023	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
November 2022	main18944	10 Nov 2022	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
September 2022	430patches18070	22 Sep 2022	Latest	The Pipeline Execute Snap with binary output that is used in a low-latency feed Ultra Pipeline now works as expected. The requests are now acknowledged correctly.
August 2022	main17386	11 Aug 2022	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.29	main15993	14 May 2022	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.28 Patch	428patches15026	22 Mar 2022	Latest	Fixed an issue with HTTP Router Snap where the Snap did not work as intended for a GET request that used a Cloud URL when the HTTP Router was the first Snap in the triggered task Pipeline.
4.28	main14627	12 Feb 2022	Stable	Enhanced the Filter Snap with the Null-safe access checkbox. Select this checkbox to consider the valid values in the filter expression and remove the missing or empty data instead of treating them as null.
4.27 Patch	427patches13726	18 Jan 2022	Latest	Enhanced the Filter Snap with the Null-safe access checkbox. Select this checkbox to consider the missing data or empty value as null when accessing the source path.
4.27	main12833	13 Nov 2021	Stable	Enhanced the Gate Snap with the Output Document Content field that enables you to indicate the count of input documents and the specific (first or last) document to include in the output.
4.26	main11181	14 Aug 2021	Stable	Added Binary Copy Snap to copy a binary stream to the Snap’s output views. You can use this Snap if you want to send the same information to multiple endpoints.
4.25 Patch	425patches10571	08 Sep 2021	Latest	Enhanced the performance of Binary Router Snap via more efficient IO utilization.
4.25	main9554	08 May 2021	Stable	Enhanced the HTTP Router Snap to support Ultra Pipelines.
4.24	main8556	13 Feb 2021	Stable	Added the Ignore empty stream checkbox to the Gate Snap Settings
4.23	main7430	14 Nov 2020	Stable	Enhances the Data Validator Snap by making the Constraint value field as optional under the Constraints.
4.22	main6403	12 Sep 2020	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.21 Patch	flow8855	-	Latest	Fixes the Binary Router Snap's failure in Ultra Pipelines by preventing a deep-copy (performing a copy of the original objects recursively) of binary data headers.
4.21	snapsmrc542	-	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.20	snapsmrc535	-	Latest	Adds a new Snap, Gate, which enables you to consolidate multiple input streams into a single output document where each input stream is displayed as a label containing the list of records that were received by that input view. The Pipeline Execute Snap now provides the following capabilities: Specify the Snaplex on which to run child Pipelines. You can now select the Snaplex on which to run the child Pipelines through the Execute On and Snaplex Path fields. The default option is executing the child Pipeline on the same Snaplex node as the Parent, but you can also specify a different Snaplex through the drop-down list, which includes the option to manually enter a Snaplex name. Configure retry logic for child Pipeline executions. You can now configure retry logic for child Pipeline executions though the following fields: Number of Retries, Retry Interval, and Timeout fields.
4.19	snaprsmrc528	-	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.18 Patch	flow7743	-	Latest	Added a property Validate full JSON path to the Data Validator Snap to fix an issue wherein a field validation failure against a constraint does not produce an error.
4.18	snapsmrc523	-	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.17 Patch	flow7637	-	Latest	Fixed an issue with the Data Validator Snap wherein the output fails to report all but one of the violations when there are multiple constraints of the Required type.
4.17 Patch	ALL7402	-	Latest	Pushed automatic rebuild of the latest version of each Snap Pack to SnapLogic UAT and Elastic servers.
4.17	snapsmrc515	-	Latest	Added the Snap Execution field to all Standard-mode Snaps. In some Snaps, this field replaces the existing Execute during preview check box.
4.16	snapsmrc508	-	Latest	Pipeline Execute Snap: Added the capability to select either document (previously supported) or binary data (new) for your input and output Views.
4.15 Patch	flow6263	-	Latest	Improved the error messages to include the source path of the constraint for data validation failures.
4.15	snapsmrc500	-	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.14	snapsmrc490	-	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.13	snapsmrc486	-	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.12 Patch	flow4895	-	Latest	Fixed an issue in the Data Validator Snap that made multiple copies of lineage on the error path.
4.12	snapsmrc480	-	Stable	Resolved an issue with the Union Snap that caused excessive CPU utilization.
4.11 Patch	flow4461	-	Latest	Fixed an issue with the Pipeline Execute Snap that could cause the parent pipeline to freeze when the child pipeline fails.
4.11 Patch	flow4292	-	Latest	Resolved an issue with the Union Snap in Ultra Mode that spikes the CPU utilization to ~30% during startup of 120 instances.
4.11	snapsmrc465	-	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.10	snapsmrc414	-	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.9.0 Patch	flow3094	-	Latest	Addressed an issue in Binary Router where the Snap did not wait until all threads were completed to write data to the output views.
4.9.0 Patch	flow3320	-	Latest	Data Validator Snap - fixed Type constraint feature.
4.9	snapsmrc405	-	Stable	Upgraded with the latest SnapLogic Platform release.
4.8.0	snapsmrc398		Stable	Filter: Snap-aware error handling policy enabled for Spark mode. This ensures the error handling specified on the Snap is used.
4.7.0 Patch	flow2598		Latest	Addressed a possible race condition when reusing pipelines with a Pipeline Execute Snap.
4.7.0	flow2297		Stable	Fixed an issue with Ultra pipeline when invoking, using Pipeline Execute, a child pipeline that contains a non-Ultra compatible Snap.
4.7.0	snapsmrc382		Stable	Recommendation: The Pipeline Execute Snap is meant to eventually replace ForEach and Task Execute. It is suggested you use Pipeline Execute for all new pipelines and update existing pipelines at your earliest convenience. Updated the Pipeline Execute Snap with Execute during preview field.
4.6.0 Patch	flow1909		Latest	Resolved an issue with Union Snap slowing down pipelines.
4.6.0	snapsmrc362		Stable	The following Snaps now support error view in Spark mode: Copy, Union. ForEach: The value for the Maximum instances property is limited to a maximum of 100. A value higher than 100 will automatically be limited down to 100 during pipeline execution. Pipeline Execute: Snaplex property added to let you specify the Snaplex on which to run the child pipeline. Resolved an issue in Task Execute Snap that caused an internal server error (status code: 500). Resolved an issue in Pipeline Execute Snap that did not show parameter suggestions when the pipeline is selected from another project. Resolved an issue in Copy Snap that showed errors on the UI while the Javascript was being executed. Resolved an issue in Filter Snap that failed with "could not filter the document" if upstream data for ServiceNow Query.
4.5.1	flow1574		Latest	Resolved an issue with Pipeline Execute not able to load pipeline selected from the pipeline picker property. Enhanced error handling in Pipeline Execute for when Reuse is enabled and the pipeline path is an expression whose result is not constant. Resolved an issue in Pipeline Execute not including the runtime ID and state in error documents.
4.5.0	snapsmrc344		Stable	NEW! Pipeline Execute introduced in this release. This Snap provides a way to flexibly and efficiently execute pipelines and flowing documents into and out of these executions. Resolved an issue in Task Execute Snap to ensure JAVA 7 and JAVA 8 Snaplex give the same output. Resolved an issue with the Router Snap routing to the wrong output when used in Spark mode
4.4.0			Stable	Resolved an issue with Exit Snap hanging during validation if threshold is not met. Spark support added to the Copy, Filter, Router, and Union Snaps.
4.3.2			Latest	Resolved an issue with Task Execute where java.math.BigInteger cannot be cast to java.lang.String exception if input document variable was a numeric type. Resolved an issue with Task Execute failing with expression enabled. Resolved an issue with data preview not working in the ForEach Snap. Resolved an issue with Execute during Preview functionality broken in the ForEach Snap. Resolved an issue with ForEach Snap not representing the output schema correctly during preview.
4.3.1			Latest	Resolved an issue with the ForEach poll interval being inconsistent.
4.3.0			Stable	In Data Validator, the pattern option now works with partial matches. Exit Snap Error handling improved to handle messages that are non-strings. Exit Snap now supports expressions in the Exit error message property. ForEach Snap now generates output documents when run. Output documents will also be produced if a child pipeline called by the ForEach is manually stopped.
4.2.2			Latest	Resolved an issue in ForEach where a recursive pipeline in synchronous mode was unable to finish execution. Resolved an issue in Data Validator not working for partial matches.
		August 7, 2015 (2015.25/4.2.1)		NEW! Exit Snap introduced in this release. This Snap forces a pipeline to stop with a failed status if it receives more records than the user-defined threshold. Resolved error in ForEach Snap where an exposed error view triggered a pipeline failure.
		June 27, 2015 (2015.22)		The Router Snap now supports even distribution across all output views if no expressions are defined. With this change, Routes is no longer a required field.
		June 6, 2015 (2015.20)		Task Execute should have Execute on preview Directory Browser Snap did not render output data when running from "Windows" Groundplex.
		May 15, 2015		ForEach: Error was not thrown on validation if the child pipeline was not provided.
		May 2, 2015		Binary Router: enhanced error handling Filter: bug fixes Router: bug fixes
		December 20, 2014		Updated Snaps may include new or changed functionality or be otherwise improved. Data Validator: Type constraint added. Union Snap: Preserve order was removed.
		July/Summer 2014		NEW! Binary Router Snap introduced in this release. NEW! Task Execute Snap introduced in this release.
		June 30, 2014		Data Validator (Beta Release). This Snap validates incoming documents and their attributes against constraints you define. ForEach: Addressed an issue with parallel execution not working properly.
		April 2014		ForEach Snap updated to support Snaplex selection and pipeline parameters.
		January 2014		NEW! ForEach Snap introduced in this release.
		November 2013		NEW! Head Snap introduced in this release. NEW! Tail Snap introduced in this release.
		Initial Release (June 2013)		Router Snap introduced in this release. Copy Snap introduced in this release. Union Snap introduced in this release. Filter Snap introduced in this release.

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Pipeline Demonstrating the Binary Router Snap

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