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Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook

You're reading from   Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook Over 70 recipes to solve ETL problems using Pentaho Kettle

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Product type Paperback
Published in Jun 2011
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781849515245
Length 352 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Table of Contents (17) Chapters Close

Pentaho Data Integration 4 Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
1. Working with Databases FREE CHAPTER 2. Reading and Writing Files 3. Manipulating XML Structures 4. File Management 5. Looking for Data 6. Understanding Data Flows 7. Executing and Reusing Jobs and Transformations 8. Integrating Kettle and the Pentaho Suite 9. Getting the Most Out of Kettle Data Structures Index

Looking for values over an intranet or Internet


This example is similar to the previous one, with the difference being that you have to lookup the museum opening hours on a website instead of a web server. In this case, you will use the HTTP Client step.

Getting ready

You must have a database with the museum structure shown in the Appendix, Data Structures and a web page that provides the museum opening hours. The recipe uses an ASP page named hours.asp, but you can use the language of your preference. The page receives the museum's identification and returns a string with the schedule. You can download a sample web page from the book's website.

How to do it...

Carry out the following steps:

  1. Create a new transformation.

  2. Drop a Table input step into the canvas, in order to obtain the museum's information. Use the following SQL statement:

    SELECT id_museum
         , name
         , city
         , country
    FROM museums
    JOIN cities
    ON museums.id_city=cities.id_city
  3. Add a HTTP Client step from the Lookup category...

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