CSVDataSink

The CSVDataSink puts each record into a CSV file. If the file already exists it will be overwritten. It also does not support the create, update and delete methods but just appends a line to the CSV file for each object it receives.

Configuration

Name	Type, usage constraints, defaults	Description
filename	required: paraVal default: none type: path to readable CSV file	Name of the CSV file where the target records should be written to. If the file already exists, it will be overwritten.
attributes	optional: paraVal default: none type: list of strings	Defines the column names of the CSV file. If defined, they will be written as header line to the export file.
separator	optional: paraVal default: , type: char	Separator character used as delimiter for separating entries.
quotechar	optional: paraVal default: " " type: char	Quoting character used for quoted elements.
encoding	optional: paraVal default: default encoding type: string	The name of the character set that should be used to encode the file. The available values depend on the version and vendor of the JVM. Examples: UTF-8, ISO-8859-1, UTF-16LE

Example

<dataSink type="CSVDataSink">
    <dp:paraVal name="filename" value="etc/csv.out"/>
    <dp:paraList name="attributes">
        <value>firstname</value>
        <value>lastname</value>
        <value>email</value>
    </dp:paraList>
</dataSink>