The TIBCO StreamBase® Once Input Adapter is an embedded adapter that starts up and sends one tuple as output. It does nothing else during the lifetime of its container unless the adapter instance is restarted. Its purpose is to ensure that something happens once and only once when the container for an application starts in StreamBase Server. This adapter is designed to trigger the portion of the application that performs the initialization of an input stream, and it is useful for sequencing start and restart activities for an application.
The output schema has a single timestamp field.
It is possible for the output tuple from another input adapter to occur before the output of the Once input adapter.
Name: Use this field to specify or change the component's name, which must be unique in the application. The name must contain only alphabetic characters, numbers, and underscores, and no hyphens or other special characters. The first character must be alphabetic or an underscore.
Adapter: A read-only field that shows the formal name of the adapter.
Class: A field that shows the fully qualified class name that implements the functionality of this adapter. Use this class name when loading the adapter in StreamSQL programs with the APPLY JAVA statement. You can right-click this field and select Copy from the context menu to place the full class name in the system clipboard.
Start with application: If this field is set to Yes or to a module parameter that evaluates to true, an instance of this adapter starts as part of the containing StreamBase Server. If this field is set to No or to a module parameter that evaluates to false, the adapter is loaded with the server, but does not start until you send an sbadmin resume command, or until you start the component with StreamBase Manager. With this option set to No or false, the adapter does not start even if the application as a whole is suspended and later resumed. The recommended setting is selected by default.
Enable Error Output Port: Select this check box to add an Error Port to this component. In the EventFlow canvas, the Error Port shows as a red output port, always the last port for the component. See Using Error Ports and Error Streams to learn about Error Ports.
Description: Optionally enter text to briefly describe the component's purpose and function. In the EventFlow canvas, you can see the description by pressing Ctrl while the component's tooltip is displayed.
The Once Adapter has a single setting, which is the output field name. By default, the field name is time.
This setting is a string name of the one field that makes up the schema of the output tuple. The field is of type timestamp, and contains an absolute timestamp value. The field specifies the system time when the adapter sends the tuple.
Use the Concurrency tab to specify parallel regions for this instance of this component, or multiplicity options, or both. The Concurrency tab settings are described in Concurrency Options, and dispatch styles are described in Dispatch Styles.
Caution
Concurrency settings are not suitable for every application, and using these settings requires a thorough analysis of your application. For details, see Execution Order and Concurrency, which includes important guidelines for using the concurrency options.
Typechecking detects a value for the output that is null or unspecified.