Transform

This Snap transcodes a binary stream from a selected character set to another character set. For example, it can be used to convert an "ISO Latin 1" text file into an "UTF-8" text file.

• Expected upstream Snaps: Any Snap with a binary output view, such as File Reader.

• Expected downstream Snaps: Any Snap with a binary input view, such as CSV/JSON/XML/Fixed Width Parser Snaps.

• Expected input: Binary text data encoded in a known character set

• Expected output: Binary text data encoded in a selected character set

The input binary data should be a text of a known character set. The Snap cannot automatically detect the character set of the input data.

Works in Ultra Tasks.

Accounts are not used with this Snap.

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.

Required. The character set to convert from. Click the 'Suggest' bubble for available character sets.
Please select 'ISO-8859-x' for 'ISO Latin x'. 'ISO-8859-x' is an official name for 'ISO Latin x' character set.

Example: ISO-8859-1

Default value: UTF-8

Required. The character set to convert to. Click the 'Suggest' bubble for available character sets.

Example: UTF-8

Default value: UTF-8

Select one of the following three modes in which the Snap executes:

• 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