Package org.pentaho.di.trans.steps.mergejoin

Class MergeJoin

  • All Implemented Interfaces:
    org.pentaho.di.core.ExtensionDataInterface, HasLogChannelInterface, org.pentaho.di.core.logging.LoggingObjectInterface, org.pentaho.di.core.logging.LoggingObjectLifecycleInterface, org.pentaho.di.core.variables.VariableSpace, StepInterface
    public class MergeJoin
extends BaseStep
implements StepInterface
    Merge rows from 2 sorted streams and output joined rows with matched key fields. Use this instead of hash join is both your input streams are too big to fit in memory. Note that both the inputs must be sorted on the join key. This is a first prototype implementation that only handles two streams and inner join. It also always outputs all values from both streams. Ideally, we should: 1) Support any number of incoming streams 2) Allow user to choose the join type (inner, outer) for each stream 3) Allow user to choose which fields to push to next step 4) Have multiple output ports as follows: a) Containing matched records b) Unmatched records for each input port 5) Support incoming rows to be sorted either on ascending or descending order. The currently implementation only supports ascending
    Since:
    24-nov-2006
    Author:
    Biswapesh

    • Method Detail

      • processRow

        public boolean processRow​(StepMetaInterface smi,
                          StepDataInterface sdi)
                   throws org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleException
        Description copied from interface: StepInterface
        Perform the equivalent of processing one row. Typically this means reading a row from input (getRow()) and passing a row to output (putRow)).
        Specified by:
        processRow in interface StepInterface
        Overrides:
        processRow in class BaseStep
        Parameters:
        smi - The steps metadata to work with
        sdi - The steps temporary working data to work with (database connections, result sets, caches, temporary variables, etc.)
        Returns:
        false if no more rows can be processed or an error occurred.
        Throws:
        org.pentaho.di.core.exception.KettleException

      • isInputLayoutValid

        protected boolean isInputLayoutValid​(org.pentaho.di.core.row.RowMetaInterface row1,
                                     org.pentaho.di.core.row.RowMetaInterface row2)
        Checks whether incoming rows are join compatible. This essentially means that the keys being compared should be of the same datatype and both rows should have the same number of keys specified
        Parameters:
        row1 - Reference row
        row2 - Row to compare to
        Returns:
        true when templates are compatible.