Configure Columns Dialog Box

The Configure Columns dialog box configures delimiters, column names, and data types for a Hadoop file. You can access this dialog box by clicking Hadoop File Structure in the Hadoop File properties dialog box.

The Configure Columns dialog box changes according to the Hadoop File Format setting chosen for the input file(s), corresponding to one of the following modes.

Configure Columns: Text Files
The Configure Columns dialog box changes options depending on the file type specified in the Hadoop File properties dialog box. The options described in this topic are available for text files.
Configure Columns: XML and JSON Files
For XML and JSON formatted data source files, you can choose at which level to parse and import the data.
Configure Columns: Log Files
You can specify that the file type for a Hadoop file is a log file.