Hand-cranking a built-in schema

In this recipe, we are presented with a CSV file that does not have a heading row and needs to create a schema for the data. This is a basic recipe with which most readers should be familiar: however, it does provide a framework for discussion of some of the more important principles of Talend schemas.

The record we will be defining is as follows:

John Smith,27/11/1990,2012-01-10 10:24:54.953

As you can see this contains the fields; first name, last name, date of birth, timestamp, and age. Note that age is an empty string.

Getting ready

Open a new Talend Job (jo_cook_ch02_0000_handCrankedSchema), so that the right-hand palette becomes available.

How to do it…

1. Drag a tFileInputDelimited component from the palette, and open it by double clicking it.
2. Click the Edit Schema button (…), shown in the following screenshot, to open the schema editor:
   
3. Click the + button to add a column:
   
4. Type name into the column, and set the length to 50.
5. Click the + button three...