talend-codegen

Command line code generation (job build/export) plugin for talend

Compiling & Configuring

Build:

#to build the latest version available
> make

#ls in the out directory
>ls jar/talend-codegen_5.5.1.jar

#build an older version
>make build_jar_5.4.1

#build directly with ant:
> cat Makefile
build_jar_5.5.1:
    ant build -Dtalend_version=5.5.1 -Dtalend_revision=118616
clean_5.5.1:
    ant clean -Dtalend_version=5.5.1 -Dtalend_revision=118616

#select your version
> ant build -Dtalend_version=5.5.1 -Dtalend_revision=118616

And copy jar/talend-codegen<version>.jar to the plugins directory of Talend.

Usage

Invoke talend with the following mandatory command line arguments:

• -projectDir - the project directory where the project can be found
• -jobName - name of the job to be exported
• -targetDir - the directory where the exported job will be placed

Eclipse application arguments

• -application au.org.emii.talend.codegen.Generator - run the code generation plugin
• -nosplash stops the display of the gui splash window
• --launcher.suppressErrors stops errors being displayed in message boxes - output to stderr instead
• -data specifies the talend workspace used for building the project - created automatically if it doesn't exist (recommended to ensure a clean build)
• --clean_component_cache tells TOS to reload external components and rebuild the cache

Some optional command line arguments you can have:

• -version - version of job to be exported
• -componentDir - location of any custom components used in the job
• -needLauncher - include launcher script (true/false)
• -needSystemRoutine - include system outines (true/false)
• -needUserRoutine - and so on..
• -needTalendLibraries
• -needJobItem
• -needSourceCode
• -needDependencies
• -needJobScript
• -needContext
• -applyToChildren

Example

export JOBNAME=MyJob
export WORKSPACE=/home/projectname/workspace
export PROJECTDIR=/home/projectname/workspace/MYPROJECT
export TARGETDIR=/home/projectname/workspace/.talend-build
export COMPONENTDIR=/home/projectname/custom_components

cp $PROJECTDIR/libs/* /home/TOS_DI-r118616-V5.5.1/lib/java/

/home/TOS_DI-r118616-V5.5.1/TOS_DI-linux-gtk-x86_64 -nosplash --launcher.suppressErrors -data $WORKSPACE -application au.org.emii.talend.codegen.Generator -jobName $JOBNAME -projectDir $PROJECTDIR -targetDir $TARGETDIR -componentDir $COMPONENTDIR