JSON Generator

Fixed an issue with the JSON Generator and XML Generator Snaps that caused unexpected output displaying '__at__' and '__h__' instead of '@' and '-' respectively because the Snap could not update them to their original values after the Velocity library upgrade.

Fixed an issue with the Sort where the Snap could not sort files larger than 52 MB. This fix applies to Join Snap also.

• Fixed an issue with the Sort Snap that displayed an error when estimating the size of the input document provided by the upstream S3 Browser Snap.
• Fixed an issue with the Parquet Formatter Snap that was unable to route errors to the error view.

• Added expression support to the Skip lines field in the CSV Parser Snap to enable passing pipeline parameters and upstream values. 

• Fixed an issue with the XML Parser Snap that caused an error when using the Splitter option in the Snap settings. 

• Added Parquet Parser and Parquet Formatter Snaps to the Transform Snap Pack:
  • Parquet Parser: Reads the binary Parquet data and writes document data to the output.
  • Parquet Formatter: Reads the document data and writes it to the output in binary Parquet format.

• Enhanced the JSON Splitter Snap to capture metadata and lineage information from the input document.

Fixed an issue with the JSON Formatter Snap that generated incorrect schema.

Fixed an issue with the Aggregate Snap where the Snap was unable to produce the desired number of output documents when the input was unsorted and the GROUP-BY fields field set was used.

Fixed a deserialization issue for a unique function in the Aggregate Snap.

• Fixed an issue with the Transform Snap Pack that caused an error when the input file was a binary JSON file that contained a string value of more than 20,000,000 characters.

• Fixed a memory issue with the Aggregate Snap that occurred when using GROUP-BY fields.

Fixed an issue with the JSON Splitter Snap that caused the pipeline to terminate with excessive memory usage on the Snaplex node after the 4.33 GA upgrade. The Snap now consumes less memory.

• Fixed an issue with the Excel Multi Sheet Formatter Snap that caused it to produce binary output data when there was no input document and Ignore empty stream was selected.
• Introduced the following new Snaps:

  • GeoJSON Parser: Parses geospatial data from binary data input and outputs the contents as a GeoJSON document downstream.

  • WKT Parser: Parses geospatial data from binary data input and outputs the contents as a WKT (Well Known Text) document downstream.

The Decrypt Field and Encrypt Field Snaps now support CTR (Counter mode) for the AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) block cipher algorithm.

The Decrypt Field Snap now supports the decryption of various encrypted fields on providing a valid decryption key.

The following Transform Snaps include new fields to improve memory management: Aggregate, Group By Fields, Group By N, Join, Sort, Unique.

Fixed an issue with the AutoPrep Snap where dates could potentially be rendered in a currency format because currency format options were displayed for the DOB column.

Fixed an issue with the Encrypt Field Snap, where the Snap failed to support an RSA public key to encrypt a message or field. Now the Snap supports the RSA public key to encrypt the message.

The Join Snap is enhanced with the following:

• The Pipeline Execution Statistics of the Join Snap now has a status message that displays the parameters - Free disk space, Available memory, and Average document size.

• The internal sort buffer size is reduced to a minimum of 10MB when the available memory in the node becomes lower than 500MB to avoid the out-of-memory crash.

• The internal sort buffer size is restored to its original size when the available memory becomes larger than 2GB.

• We have improved the readability of the error message for the out of disk space on node error. The updated error message now provides clearer information and guidance for users, as shown below:
  Reason: Insufficient free disk space available to stage sort data into temporary files.
  Resolution:  Increase the amount of free disk space and try again.

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• Fixed an issue with the JSON Splitter Snap that was causing errors when using multiple repeated dots in the JSON Path.

• The Sort Snap includes the following improvements:

  • The Maximum memory % field is revised to Maximum memory.

  • The Maximum memory unit (new dropdown list) enables you to choose a unit, percentage (%), or MB for better memory control.

Fixed an issue that occurred with the JSON Splitter Snap when used in an Ultra pipeline. The request was acknowledged before it was processed by the downstream Snaps, which caused a 400 Bad Request response.

• Fixed an issue with the CSV Formatter Snap where the Unicode character delimiters using [0-9a-f] did not work.

• Fixed an issue with the JSON Splitter Snap that was generating null values for empty input data.

The Encrypt Field Snap supports decryption of encrypted output in Snowflake Snaps.

The Transform Join Snap now doesn’t fail with the Null Pointer Exception when you configure the Sorted streams field with Ascending.

• The Excel Formatter and Excel Multi Sheet Formatter Snaps now include a Convert formula strings to formulas checkbox.

• The Mapper Snap now has a Sorted checkbox in the Input Schema and Target Schema panels, which allows you to sort the input and target schemas. When unchecked, the Snap unsorts the input and the target schema.

The CSV Formatter and CSV Parser Snaps now support shorter values of Unicode characters.

• The AutoPrep feature now includes the following new transformation options that enable you to:
  • Change the field data type from Data type menu.
  • Format dates and date Strings.
  • Rename a field.
  • Mask sensitive data using an MD5, SHA-1, SHA-256, or SHA-512 algorithm.
• The data in the Preview data pane format is easier to read and the buttons have been changed to improve usability.

The CSV Parser Snap now parses data with empty values in the columns when using a multi-character delimiter.

The Transcoder Snap used in a low-latency feed Ultra Pipeline now acknowledges the requests correctly.

The Avro Parser Snap now displays the decimal number correctly in the output view if the column’s logical type is defined as a decimal.

The CSV Formatter Snap does not hang when running in specific situations involving multibyte characters in a long field. If you notice the CSV Formatter Snap is hung, we recommend that you update to the 430patches17589 version and restart your Snaplex.

• New Snap Application: The Auto Prep Snap provides a data preparation application where you can flatten structured data, include and exclude data fields, and change data types before forwarding the data for further processing.

• The Hide whitespace option in the CSV Generator and JSON Generator Snaps allows you to hide the rendering of whitespace as symbols (dot or underscore) in the output that you may have in the CSV or JSON input documents.

• The Render whitespace checkbox in the Mapper Snap enables or disables the rendering of whitespace in the input document. When a value in the Expression field has blank spaces (leading, trailing, or spaces in the middle of a string), the spaces are rendered as symbols (dot “.” or underscore “_”) in the output on selecting this checkbox.

• The Excel Parser Snap includes the Custom Locale dropdown list that allows selecting a user-defined locale for formatting numbers..

• The Selected fields in the Pivot Snap allow you to define fields to be unpivoted so that the remaining fields are automatically pivoted.

• The XML Generator Snap includes examples on how to escape single (') and double quotes (“) when used with elements or attributes.

• Fixed an issue with the Aggregate Snap where the Snap failed to validate (after first successful validation) while using a field that may contain a date for MIN and MAX functions. The Snap now supports DATE-type fields.

• Enhanced the Pivot Snap with the Treat selected fields as static checkbox that enables the Snap to treat the selected fields as static to preserve the structure of the selected fields while all other fields are pivoted.

• Enhanced the CSV Formatter and CSV Parser Snaps to support multiple characters or strings as delimiters.

• Fixed an issue with the Join Snap where the Snap displayed an incorrect error if the Left path or Right path fields were expression-enabled or if you have specified properties other than the field name and irrespective of whether the Sorted streams field is Unsorted or not. For example, "$first + '2' . Now, the Snap runs properly if the Left path or Right path was expression enabled and you have specified properties other than the field name and the Sorted streams field is Sorted or Unsorted. The Snap now displays a proper error that is more informative, in case there is a problem while executing this Snap.

• Fixed an issue with CSV Parser Snap where the Snap failed when more than six characters are used as delimiters. Now, the Snap executes properly when you use more than six characters as delimiters.

• Removed the default value for the Root element field in the XML Formatter Snap.
• Fixed an issue with the Transcoder Snap where the Input character-set field was not displaying the suggestions properly.

• Fixed an issue with CSV Formatter and CSV Generator Snaps that displayed an incorrect error when one or more header values in the CSV file were missing. This error is now routed to the error view.

• Fixed an issue with the CSV Parser Snap, where the Snap stopped indefinitely while processing certain inputs.

• Fixed an issue with the CSV Formatter Snap, where the escape character selected was not used.

• Updated the CSV library used in the CSV Generator, CSV Parser, and CSV Formatter Snaps. This library update enforces values for each column in a parsed CSV header.

• Enhanced the XML Formatter Snap with the Output Character Set field. You can select the character set you want for your binary output. For example, UTF-8 or ISO860.

Fixed an issue with the XML Generator Snap, where the Snap failed with an invalid UTF-8 sequence error when running on the Windows Snaplex.

Fixed an issue in the Group by Fields Snap that caused the Snap to abort with an error when executed with zero input documents. 

• Added dynamic memory management to the Group By Fields Snap, which can activate with the following settings: 

  • Memory Sensitivity: The Snap's response to the memory changes. 

  • Min Part Size: The minimum part size that you want the Snap to split larger groups into multiple parts. 

• Enhanced the JSON Formatter, JSON Generator, and JSON Parser Snaps with the Support Type Extensions checkbox. On selecting this checkbox, the Snap supports SnapLogic-specific syntax for representing non-standard data types such as byte arrays and date objects in JSON.

• Added the following checkboxes in the Excel Multi Sheet Formatter Snap:

  • Convert numeric string to number: Sets the behavior of the Snap when a value in the input document is a numeric string. This checkbox supports the conversion of numeric values to string values.

  • Translate date and time types: Sets the behavior of the Snap when a value in the input document is a date and datetime type. This checkbox supports translating date and time types to Excel date numeric type with date format style.

Fixed an issue in the XML Formatter Snap, where the Map input to first repeating element in XSD checkbox is selected, while no XSD is specified for mapping the input.

• Enhanced the JSON Splitter Snap with a new field Show Null Values for Include Paths that enables the Snap to show key-value entries of the null values for the objects added to the Include Paths field in the output document.
• Enhanced the Join Snap with a new field Available Memory Threshold (%) that enables the Snap to keep all the Right-input view documents with the same join-path values in memory until the join operation is done for the specific join-path values.

Fixed an issue in the CSV Formatter Snap, where even if the Ignore empty stream checkbox is not enabled, the Snap did not produce an empty binary stream output in case there is no input document.

• Replaced the Strict XSD output field with Map input to first repeating element in XSD field in the XML Formatter Snap. If selected, the Snap ignores the root element from the XSD file.

• Enhanced the CSV Parser Snap with a new checkbox Preserve Surrounding Spaces that enables you to preserve the surrounding spaces for the values that are non-quoted.

Fixed a ClassCastException error in the Avro Parser Snap and handling of the map, fixed, enum, and bytes data types in the Avro Formatter and Avro Parser Snaps.

Enhanced XML Parser Snap to recognize input headers when defining inbound schema. 

Reverts the Join Snap to the 4.24 release behavior. This is in response to an issue encountered in the Join Snap in the 4.25 release version (main9554), which can result in incorrect outputs from all Join Types. 425patches9638 is the default version for both stable and latest Transform Snap Pack versions for orgs that are on the 4.25 release version. No action is required by customers to receive this update and no impact is anticipated.

Enhanced the Group By N Snap with the following settings: 

• Memory Sensitivity: The Snap's response to the memory changes. 
• Group Size: The maximum number of input documents to be grouped into a single output document.
• Min Group Size: The minimum number of input documents to be grouped into a single output document.

• Fixed the timestamp issue in the JSON Formatter Snap that changed the time zone offset to include colon by default after upgrading to 4.24.

• Fixed the null pointer exception at runtime in the Fixed Width Parser Snap by setting the Trim column data field to false for empty columns.
• Enhances the Group By N Snap to process the records efficiently by adding the Flush Timeout field that enables the Snap to flush a partial group of records if the time specified in this field passes with no new input.

Fixes an issue in the JSON Splitter Snap by logging an error when the matcher does not find a pattern.

• Fixes an issue in the In-Memory Lookup Snap to correctly handle the Join path in the format like $['join path'].

• Fixes an issue in the XSLT Snap, wherein null binary header values are now converted to blank strings when injecting them as parameters in the stylesheet.

Fixes an issue in the XML Formatter Snap when it fails to convert input JSON data, with JSON property having a special character as its prefix, to XML format by sorting the elements.

Fixes an issue with the JSON Splitter Snap's behavior in Ultra Pipelines that prevents processed requests to be acknowledged and removed from the FeedMaster queue, resulting in retries of requests that are already processed successfully.

Enhances the JSON Formatter Snap to render groups output from upstream (Group by) Snaps with one document per group and a new line per group element. You can now select the Format each document and JSON lines check boxes simultaneously.

Fixes the JSON Splitter Snap data corruption issue by copying the data in JSON Splitter Snap before sending it to other downstream Snaps.

Fixes the XML Generator Snap issue reflecting empty tags and extra space by removing the extra space in the XML output.

Enhances the JSON Generator Snap to include pass-through functionality where the Snap embeds the upstream input document under the original field of the output document along with other records.

• Fixes the Sort Snap that fails while performing sorting, displaying a NoClassDefFoundError.  
• Fixes the Excel Formatter Snap that fails to create an empty worksheet when you do not select the Ignore Empty Stream checkbox.

Adds support in the Mapper Snap to display schemas with complex nesting. For example, if Snaps downstream from the

Resolves the NoClassDefFoundError in the Join Snap on Windows Snaplex instances.

Resolves the NullPointerException in the Join Snap on Windows Snaplex instances.

• Fixes the error that occurs while transforming an XML document into a string or while using the Excel Formatter Snap by retaining only one version of the Saxon library – net.sf.Saxon: Saxon-HE:9.6.0-10 across the Transform Snap Pack.
• Fixes null handling in the Aggregate Snap whereby changing the order of entries in the Aggregate fields fieldset results in different outputs when the input documents contain one or more null values.
• Fixes the issue with the Excel Parser Snap whereby the Snap does not parse the date and time correctly for custom date formats.

Fixed an issue with the Excel Parser Snap wherein the Snap incorrectly outputs Unformatted General Number format. 

The output of the AVG function in the Aggregate Snap now rounds up all numeric values that have more than 16 digits.

Fixed an issue with the Excel Multi Sheet Formatter Snap wherein the Snap fails to create sheets in the expected order.

Added a field, Round dates, to the Excel Parser Snap which enables you to round numeric excel data values to the closest second.

• Fixed an issue with the Excel Parser Snap by upgrading Apache POI to version 3.14, wherein the Snap is unable to parse an excel file with custom namespaces.
• Fixed an issue with the Excel Parser Snap wherein the Snap converts real numbers to two decimal places when formatted for currency. A new property Cell formatting now supports unformatted outputs.

Fixed an issue with the Sort and Join Snaps wherein the platform removes all temp files at the end of Pipeline execution.

Fixed an issue with the XML Parser Snap wherein a class cast exception occurs when the Snap is configured with a Splitter and Namespace Context.

• Enhanced the sort feature of the Sort Snap to support specifying sort order at the field level. Added two new fields, Sort Path and Sort Order, to the Sort paths property; renamed the Sort order property to Sort order (Global).
• Enhanced the Group Size property of the Group by N Snap to be expression enabled and removed the upper bound threshold (of 10000).

Added a new field, Ignore empty stream, to the Avro Formatter Snap that writes an empty array in the output in case of no input documents.

Added a new field, Format as canonical XML, to the XSLT Snap that enables canonical XML formatting.

Pushed automatic rebuild of the latest version of each Snap Pack to SnapLogic UAT and Elastic servers.

• Added the Derive schema from the sample size menu option to the JSON Formatter Snap, whereby you select the sampling size of the schema from the data source.
• Added the capability to select either document (previously supported) or binary data (new) for your input and output views to the Mapper Snap.
• Added the Snap Execution field to all Standard-mode Snaps. In some Snaps, this field replaces the existing Execute during the preview check box.

Fixed an issue with the XSLT Snap failure by enhancing the Saxon version.

• Added a new property, Escape special characters, to the XML Generator Snap that enables you to escape XML special characters in template variable values.
• Added a new property, Header size error policy, to the CSV Formatter and CSV Parser Snaps. The property enables you to handle header size errors.

Fixed an issue with the XML Parser Snap wherein XSD with annotations were incorrectly interpreted.

Fixed an issue wherein the XML Generator Snap was unable to escape some of the special characters.

Fixed an issue with the Excel Parser Snap wherein headers were not parsed properly and header columns were also maintained in an incorrect order.

Fixed an issue with an object type in the Fixed Width Formatter Snap.

Fixed an issue with the Fixed Width Parser Snap wherein Turkish characters caused incorrect parsing of data on Windows plex.

Fixed an issue with the XML Parser Snap wherein the Snap failed to get data types from XSD.

Fixed an issue with the XML Parser wherein XML validation was failing if the XSD contained xsd:include.

Added a new property, Binary header properties, to the Document to binary Snap that enables you to specify the properties to add to the binary document's header.

Fixed an issue wherein the XML Parser Snap was not maintaining the datatype mentioned in the XSD file.

Fixed an issue with the Avro Formatter Snap wherein the Snap was failing for a complex JSON input.

Fixed an issue with S3 file reads getting aborted intermittently because of incomplete consumption of input stream.

Fixed the JSON Parser Snap that causes the File Reader Snap to fail to read S3 file intermittently with an AbortException error.

Fixed an issue in the CSV Formatter Snap where the output showed extra values that were not provided in the input.

Fixed an issue with the Excel Parser Snap that drops columns when the value is null at the end of the row.

Fixed an issue in the Excel Formatter Snap, wherein opening an output stream prematurely causes the Box Write Snap to fail. Excel Formatter now awaits the first input document, before opening an output stream.

Fixed an issue that caused the Join Snap to go out of memory.

• Improved performance for both Aggregate and Join Snaps.

• Added Select All and Deselect All buttons to the Mapper table

Enforced UTF-8 character encoding for the Fixed Width Formatter Snap.

Enhanced enum labels on the Binary to Document and the Document to Binary Snaps for the Encode or Decode property with DOCUMENT and NONE options.

Fixed a sorting issue with the Join and Sort Snaps where the end of the file was not detected correctly.

Added support on the Kryo serialization for UUID and other types to the Sort, Join and In-Memory Lookup Snaps.

• Updated the JSON Formatter Snap with Binary Header and Content properties to allow the Snap to pass through binary header data.
• Enhanced the In-memory Lookup Snap for Performance Optimization.
• Enhanced the Sort Snap for Performance Optimization.
• Updated the Excel Parser with will Insert null columns property to insert 'null' on missing columns at end.

Addressed an issue with the Excel Parser Snap that failed with out of memory when using large input Data (eg. 191 MB).

Conditional Snap: fixed an issue with the "Null-safe access" Snap Setting not being respected for return values.

• CSV Parser Snap updated with Ignore empty stream property to support passing the empty data.
• XML Formatter Snap updated with Max schema levels property to support the outbound schema XSD containing import statements.
• Addressed spelling errors in messages across the Snap Pack.

Join Snap - All input documents from all input views should be consumed before the end of Snap execution.

Made all four output views in Diff snap as mandatory.

Made all four output views in Diff snap as mandatory.

CSV Parser Snap - A new Snap property Ignore empty data with true default is added

Addressed an issue with the transform2989 build.

Addressed an issue with Excel Parser not displaying the most recent cached value for vlookups containing missing external references.

Introduced Encrypt Field and Decrypt Field Snaps.

[CSVParser] Fixed an issue where an empty Quote Character config field was defaulting to the unicode quote character U+0000 (null). This caused issues if the input CSV had U+0000 characters in it.

• Addressed an issue with Excel Multi sheet Formatter creating unreadable data on the output view when there is no input document.
• Addressed an issue with CSV Formatter Snap failing on empty input data.
  
• Addressed an issue with an upstream Script Snap throwing a NoClassDefFoundError in the Sort Snap.

Addressed an issue with CSV Parser causing a spike in CPU usage.

Addressed an issue with Excel Formatter dropping the first record when Ignore empty stream is selected.

• Updated the CSV Formatter Snap with Newline property. This lets you select newline characters as a line break.
• CSV Formatter Snap: Snap-aware error handling policy enabled for Spark mode. This ensures the error handling specified on the Snap is used.
• Mapper: Snap-aware error handling policy enabled for Spark mode. This ensures the error handling specified on the Snap is used.

Addressed an issue with Excel Formatter altering decimal numbers to text.

Resolved an issue with validation of pipelines taking more time than executing a pipeline when a large amount of data is used.

Resolved an issue with XML Parser failing with error: 'Maximum attribute size (524288) exceeded'.

Resolved an issue with JSON Generator failing with an "Invalid UTF-8 middle byte 0x70" error on Windows.

• Updated Sort Snap with the property Maximum memory %. (Also released as a patch to 4.6.0)
• Updated JSON Formatter Snap with the JSON lines field, an option that outputs each document fully in a single line followed by a newline. 
• Updated the JSON Splitter Snap with  Json Path property. 
• Updated the Excel Parser Snap with the new field, Header row.

Resolved an issue where Excel Parser did not reliably set header row when "contains headers" is checked

Resolved an issue in Sort Snap where buffer size should not be fixed for optimal performance

• In-Memory Lookup Snap: Resolved an issue where the internal lookup table size was fixed at 1GB.
• New property "Maximum memory %" allows users to use larger memory for optimal performance.

Resolved a performance issue in Excel Multi Sheet Formatter.

• The following Snaps now support error view in Spark mode: Aggregate, CSV Parser, JSON Parser, Join, Unique.
• Added an option to enable output readability. The newly added option is Pretty-print.
• Resolved an issue in Excel Formatter Snap that formatted decimal numbers as text in the output XLS file.
• Resolved an issue in XML Generator Snap that expired the internal cache after 50 minutes.  
• Resolved an issue in Join Snap that caused unexpected failures while performing join or duplicated column values.
• Resolved an issue in Sort Snap that caused unexpected results when provided with multiple sort paths.
• You can now expand/collapse all nodes of a schema tree by holding the Shift key while clicking on the plus (+) sign.
• Schemas with less than 1000 entries will now auto-expand when searching/filtering. 

• XML Formatter is enhanced to transform an XML output to canonical XML. For more information, see XML Formatter. 
• Join Snap is updated to support a new join type, Merge. For more information, see Join.
• Fixed an error in XML Parser Snap that caused the Snap to fail for a valid specification, a hierarchy with an XPath expression.
• Fixed an error in CSV Parser Snap that causes the skip lines option to not take effect in Spark mode.
• Fixed an error in Join Snap that caused unintended values in the output document if one of the inputs has zero documents. 
• Fixed an error that throws incorrect resolution for a failure when a Join Snap has unconnected input views.
• Fixed an error in Sort Snap that occurred because the upstream Snap was producing Long instead of Big integer. 
• Fixed an error in Sort Snap to ensure appropriate error handling. 
• Fixed an error in Join Snap, in Ultra mode, that that caused execution failure due to lineage information. 
• The version of the Join Snap deprecated in 4.4.1 is no longer available in the catalog.
• CSV Parser Snap is updated to ensure appropriate parsing of input data. The Snaps that worked prior to 4.4.1 were failing in the 4.4.2 version. This has been rectified. 

• Spark Mode enabled for Join, JSON Splitter, JSON Formatter, JSON Parser.
• Resolved an exception in the Join Snap.
• Resolved an issue with the Mapper Snap that occurred while evaluating an expression and reporting its error.
• Resolved an issue with CSV Formatter adding extra data to output when used in Spark mode.
• Resolved an issue with CSV Parser Snap that occurred when the second input view did not contain a header.
• Resolved an issue with the Mapper Snap that occurred while evaluating an expression and reporting its error. 

• NEW! Excel Multi Sheet Formatter
• NEW! In-Memory Lookup
• Deprecated: The Join Snap has been deprecated and is labeled as such. Existing pipelines using this Join Snap (which is now deprecated) will continue to function as-is without any issues, including pipeline execution or while pipeline deployment across orgs. This Snap will continue to be supported for two Platform Level (x.x) Sprints, which is approximately six months. After that point, no bug fixes will be applied to the Snap. It is recommended to move to use the new Snaps (Join and In-Memory Lookup), which together have significant performance and efficiency benefits.
• Name change: The Multi-Join Snap has been renamed to Join.
• Aggregate: Resolved an issue with Sum and Avg Functions not returning correct output in Spark mode.
• CSV Parser: A second optional input view was enabled to add the ability to associate an external schema file.
• CSV Formatter: A new property, Quote mode, specifies how the quote character should be used in formatting the CSV data.
• JSON Formatter: Resolved an issue with the Ignore Empty Streams option not working.
• JSON Parser: Resolved an issue with error handling when an empty file is passed in an Ultra task.
• Resolved an issue with XSLT Snap incorrectly completing successfully when a truncated XML document was passed.
• ZipFile Read:
  • Resolved an issue with Content-length, content-location showing differently for different protocols.
  • Resolved an issue with spaces in file and folder names displaying as "%20".

• NEW! Pivot Snap
• Resolved an issue with JSON Splitter modifying documents that were already sent out.
• Spark support added to the Aggregate, CSV Formatter, CSV Parser, Mapper, Sort, and Unique Snaps.

• NEW! Group By Fields and Group By N Snaps added.
• Behavior change: CSV Formatter: Expression support added to Delimiter and Quote Character properties. You will need to toggle on the expression button to use an expression in this field.
• Behavior change: CSV Parser: Expression support added to Delimiter, Quote Character, and Escape Character properties. You will need to toggle on the expression button to use an expression in this field.
• Resolved an issue with Encrypt and Compress showing 352 bytes of data when CSV Formatter has Ignore empty stream enabled.
• Resolved an issue with Sequence Snap failing if trying to read parameters from upstream.
• Resolved an issue with Sort Snap not failing with warning/error when incorrect (non-existent) field is referenced in the Sort path.
• Resolved an issue with CSV Formatter failing with error Input length = 1. 
• (Data) removed from the Mapper Snap name.
• Resolved an issue with Excel Parser Snap ignoring a column if it contained null values when selecting the Contains headers option.
• Resolved an issue with Excel formatter truncating leading zero in string type.
• Resolved an issue with Binary to Document Snap not routing the Content into the error view.
• The Multi Join Snap has been pulled from the Snap catalog when in SnapReduce mode as it is not yet supported.

• Addressed the following defects:
  • Defect: XML Generator failing with null pointer exception when simultaneous triggered task are executed
  • Defect: JSON Formatter Snap - fails to close JSON binary stream with closing bracket ']' when user stop the pipeline

• Excel Parser now has an Evaluate formulas option. Select this option if the cell formulas are to be evaluated and results displayed instead of raw formulas.
• Multi Join Snap
  • Enhanced to make the Left and Right path schema-aware. 
  • Resolved an issue when attempting a join where one or both inputs are empty.

• NEW! Multi Join Snap. This streaming supports joins of two or more sorted data streams.
• Sequence Snap now supports pass through.
• Resolved an issue where the Excel Parser Snap always returned the header from the first sheet for all sheets if the Excel file format was the older .xls format. Additionally, Improved the error message when the sheet given does not exists.
• Sort Snap: Null greater option added to let you indicate if null values should be treated as greater than non-null values when sorted.
• Resolved an issue with the Aggregate Snap failing with a null pointer exception.

• Resolved an issue in Excel Parser where Headers were not displayed properly if a few columns were blank.
• Resolved a null pointer exception in the Aggregate Snap. The resolution included the addition of a new field, Sorted stream, where you designate whether or not the incoming date is sorted, as presorted data will allow the Snap to run more efficiently. The default value is Ascending for newly placed Aggregate Snaps; existing Aggregate Snaps will default to Unsorted for compatibility with previous functionality.
• NEW! Transcoder Snap. Resolves an issue where preview of Snaps was not able to handle special characters.
• Resolved an issue with XML Formatter including "Metadata" in the output.

• Sort Snap: performance improvements for sorting large amounts of records.
• XML Formatter:
  • resolved an error where documents could not be converted to XML since the last Snap update.
  • resolved an exception found within this Snap.
• JSON Splitter: resolved an issue with the Snap not honoring the Null-safe access option
• Excel Parser: Headers were not displaying properly if a few columns are blank.

• CSV Parser: You can now select the character set in which your incoming CSV data is encoded. 
• CSV Formatter: You can now select the character set in which encode your CSV data. You can also select to writhe the BOM (ByteOrderMark) for the character set selected.
• NEW!: Avro Parser and Formatter
• Excel Parser Snap: resolved failure due to file size
• XML Formatter:
  • resolved "Cannot read attribute: element has children or text" error
• Additional property, Strict XSD Output was added to extract the root element name and the wrapper name from the XSD file.

• Excel Parser: exception resolved
• Join: bug fixes for certain datasets in excess of 1million rows
• JSON Generator: enhanced error handling
• Mapper (Data): bug fixes
• Sequence Snap: enhanced error handling
• Sort:bug fixes for certain datasets in excess of 1m rows
• XML Parser: enhancements supporting empty documents

• CSV Formatter: Exception resolved when the quote character and delimiter were the same.
• XML Formatter: The datetime output now outputs as UTC date/time
• XML Parser: Examples added to the documentation.

• Binary to Document Snap: The optional property Ignore empty stream was added.
• CSV Formatter: Performance enhancements
• CSV Parser:
  • Quote character is no longer a required field.
  • Optional Header size error policy field added. This setting lets you decide how to handle the error. In the newly provided csv, the last record is too big. Existing pipelines with this Snap will default to Both as this was the previous behavior.
• Excel Parser: Now writes bad records to the document error view if configured.
• XML Parser
  • The splitting of an XML document functionality has been improved. You can provide the splitter expression (a path to the element you want to split an XML on) in the XML Parser Snap and it will split the document (regardless of the size of the original XML).
  • Performance improvements.

December 20, 2014

• Join: a new version of the Join Snap has been created. The existing version will continue to work, but will be marked as Deprecated. Any future enhancements will be in the newer Join. The new Join will prefix top level attributes from the right with right_ and top level attributes from the left with left_.
• CSV Parser & Formatter have been enhanced to utilize Unicode for delimiters.
• Fixed Width Formatter: Now supports Null-safe access
• Updates to XML Parser and XML Formatter

Aggregate now provides 2 new functions: concat and unique_concat

• XML Generator
  • XSD support added
  • Pass-through support added by default. The Snap will pass-through the input data if an input view is provided. This is not configurable.
• Optional Ignore empty stream setting added to XML Formatter and Excel Formatter
• Addressed an issue where Conditional Snap was unable to process null Return Value 

• Mapper Snap
  • The Data Snap has been replaced by the Mapper Snap. 
  • The functionality of the Mapper table was enhanced with the following:
    • Mapper enhanced to support Structure-mapping.
    • Performance enhancements now load the Mapper table sooner.
    • You can now map items by dragging an item from one schema to the other.
    • The Mapping root option now lets you process an array easier by setting this option to the top node of that array.
    • Mapper field highlight visibly indicates the mapping between input and output schemas.
  • Data preview of input and output data.
• Moved XML & FixedWidth Snaps to Transform Snap Pack

• Fixed Width Parser enhanced to be able to skip any row based on a pattern.
• CSV Parser now validates that the header field matches the declaration if Contains header is selected.

• Binary to Document (Beta), Document to Binary (Beta)

• Addressed the following issues:
• JSON Generator not streaming.

• CSV Parser with empty skip lines field leads to null pointer exception during validation

• CSV Formatter does not parse headers with space
  

• XML Formatter: Snap fails converting document into XML

• NEW! CSV Generator Snap
• NEW! Sequence Snap
• NEW! Constant Snap
• Conditional Snap updated with Null-safe access.
• The Data Snap no longer needs an input. With no input view specified, it generates a downstream flow of one row.

• Aggregate Snap updated to handle aggregating Strings, Date, Time, and DateTime.
• Excel Parser Snap enhanced to determine column names in a spreadsheet.

• NEW! Unique
• JSON Splitter Snap was enhanced with an Include parent option, which includes the hierarchy of the list specified by the JSON path by adding it to each document.
• Snaps like JSON Parser that have a JSON path expression now support pipeline parameter substitution in that expression.
• Excel Parser Snap property labels updated for clarity. "Skip Lines" labels are replaced with Start Row and End Row.

• NEW! Microsoft Excel Formatter & Parser
• UTF-16LE & UTF-16BE unicode support was added to the JSON Formatter & Parser and the CSV Formatter & Parser Snaps

• NEW! Fixed Width Formatter and Parser
• CSV Parser now adds "field00x" to column names for tables with empty column names when Contains headers are false.

• NEW! Conditional
• NEW! Diff

• NEW! Aggregate: The Aggregate Snap applies aggregate functions on input data with Group By support.
• NEW! JSON Generator: Generates JSON as a document for the next Snap in the pipeline.
• Join: The Join Snap was enhanced to support Outer joins.

JSON Splitter: The JSON Splitter Snap splits a list of values into separate documents. 

• Transform structure of an input schema
  • Source schema introspection (Suggest)
  • Target schema introspection
• Join Snap for merging 2 data streams
• XSLT Snap