Read Azure Blob Storage (Cloud Connectivity)
Synopsis
This operator downloads the specified file from the Microsoft Azure Blob Storage cloud storage.Description
After you have configured your Azure Blob Storage account, you can load the Azure Blob Storage file with this operator.
Be aware that the operator cannot read the file as example set. For this reason, you must connect the Read Azure Blob Storage operator to another appropriate operator to read the file. For example, if you want to load an Excel file from your Azure Blob Storage, you must connect the Read Azure Blob Storage operator with the Read Excel operator to see the result.
Input
- connection (Connection)
This input port expects a Connection object if any. See the parameter connection entry for more information.
Output
- file (File)
The downloaded file object is returned here. Must be connected to a appropriate Read Operator, for example Read Excel or Read CSV.
- connection (Connection)
This output port delivers the Connection object from the input port. If the input port is not connected the port delivers nothing.
Parameters
- connection source This parameter indicates how the connection should be specified. It gives you two options, predefined and repository. The parameter is not visible if the connection input port is connected.
- connection entry This parameter is only available when the connection source parameter is set to repository. This parameter is used to specify a repository location that represents a connection entry. The connection can also be provided using the connection input port.
- connection This parameter is only available when the connection source parameter is set to predefined. The connection details for the Azure Blob Storage connection have to be specified. If you have already configured an Azure Blob Storage connection, you can select it from the drop-down list. If you have not configured an Azure Blob Storage yet, select the icon to the right of the drop-down list. Create a new Azure Blob Storage connection in the Manage connections box. The account name and account key are required.
- file Select the Azure Blob Storage file you want to download. Note that the concept of folders does not exist in Azure Blob Storage, so the default delimiter ('/') is used to represent them. If your file was stored as 'name1/name2/my_file.xls' on Azure Blob Storage, the file 'my_file.xls' would be displayed as residing in the folder 'name1/name2/'.