tBigtableConnection Standard properties

Property Type

Select the way the connection details will be set.

• Built-In: The connection details will be set locally for this component. You need to specify the values for all related connection properties manually.

• Repository: The connection details stored centrally in Repository > Metadata will be reused by this component.

  You need to click the [...] button next to it and in the pop-up Repository Content dialog box, select the connection details to be reused, and all related connection properties will be automatically filled in.

Project name

Enter the unique identifier of your Google Cloud Platform project. This information is available on the Dashboard page of your Google Cloud console.

Instance ID

Enter the permanent identifier of the Bigtable instance.

• Service account key: authenticate using a Google account that is associated with your Google Cloud Platform project. When selecting this mode, the parameter to be defined is Google credentials.
• Application Default Credentials: authenticate using the Application Default Credentials. When selecting this mode, no additional parameters need to be defined as credentials are automatically found based on the application environment.

To know more about the Google Cloud authentication process, read the Google Cloud documentation.

Google credentials

Paste the content of the JSON file that contains your service account key.

This property is only available when you authenticate using Service account key.

tStatCatcher Statistics

Select this check box to gather the Job processing metadata at the Job level as well as at each component level.

ERROR_MESSAGE

The error message generated by the component when an error occurs. This is an After variable and it returns a string.

NB_LINE

The number of rows processed. This is an After variable and it returns an integer.