Escape characters in metadata properties

schabluk

• July 31, 2008 00:00

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Hi.
I'm trying to make dynamic metadata, therefore I need to pass recordDelimiter param (which is an escape character) to XML Writer task (screen).

http://img141.imageshack.us/img141/1731/editmetadatawe9.th.png

In results, I'm getting HTML encoded value & #10; instead of \n character.

How can I pass it without conversion?

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  jurban

  • August 14, 2008 15:46

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  Hi,
  if you want to use the default value of a data field to pass the record delimiter, then you need to set it to "\\\\n" (without the quotes) and set the field to be non-nullable. However the need for 4 backslashes is currently a bug, we will resolve it in the next release (only 2 backslashes should be needed).
  
  Other mechanism are graph parameters, which can be used throughout the graph via ${parameter_name}. So you could create a parameter for the record delimiter (the parameter can even be used in the metadata editor). See the wiki for more info about parameters.
  
  Hope this helps,
  Jaro
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  schabluk

  • August 21, 2008 14:22

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  Nah, it's not a bug, it's a future :D Works fine.
  
  Thanks.

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