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You're reading from Talend Open Studio Cookbook Getting familiar with Talend Open Studio will greatly enhance your data handling and integration capabilities. This is the perfect reference book for beginners and intermediates with a host of practical recipes that clarify even complex features.

Product type Paperback

Published in Oct 2013

Publisher Packt

ISBN-13 9781782167266

Length 270 pages

Edition 1st Edition

Languages

Java

Tools

Talend

Concepts

Data Analysis

Author (1):

Rick Barton

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Table of Contents (16) Chapters

Preface

1. Introduction and General Principles FREE CHAPTER

2. Metadata and Schemas

3. Validating Data

4. Mapping Data

5. Using Java in Talend

6. Managing Context Variables

7. Working with Databases

8. Managing Files

9. Working with XML, Queues, and Web Services

10. Debugging, Logging, and Testing

11. Deploying and Scheduling Talend Code

12. Common Mistakes and Other Useful Hints and Tips

A. Common Type Conversions

B. Management of Contexts

Index

Using the Java debugger to debug Talend jobs

Occasionally, it is necessary to delve deeper into the Java code generated by Talend in order to locate and understand the cause of a bug. This recipe is a very light introduction for debugging Talend code using the Java debugging mode in Talend.

Getting ready

Open the jo_cook_ch10_0040_useJavaDebugger job.

How to do it...

The steps for using the Java debugger to debug Talend jobs are as follows:

Select the Debug Run option from the Run dialogue and click on the down arrow for the run type. Select Java Debug to run using the Java option.
Confirm the perspective switch by clicking Yes.
Click the resume icon to start the job running.
The job will execute and return an error. Scroll through the console output (bottom panel), and you will see the error, as shown in the following screenshot:
Click the hyperlink for line 2574. This will take you to the line that is causing an error.
Adding a breakpoint to allow inspection of data:
Right-click on the line number...