Excel Data Sources

This section describes the usage of DSL APIs for creating, altering or deleting a Excel data source.

Considerations

Listed below are some points to consider while working with Excel Data Sources:

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During an alter operation, the properties that were previously set during a create will not be altered unless a new value or NULL is specified.

Examples

MS Excel (non-ODBC) Data Source Creation

//create excel datasource using DSL syntax

curl -d "[\"CREATE DATASOURCE /shared/examples/excelds

        BASED ON ADAPTER 'Microsoft Excel (non-ODBC)'

        CONNECT USING LOCAL_ROOT_PATH '/Users/Shared/excel'

        FORMAT USING CHARACTER_SET 'utf-8'

        SET ANNOTATION 'this is a excel datasource created using DSL api'\"]"

-u "admin:admin" -X POST "http://localhost:9400/rest/execute/v1/actions/dsl/invoke" -H "Content-Type:application/json"

//specify create ds using only native properties

curl -d "[\"CREATE DATASOURCE /shared/examples/excelds

        BASED ON ADAPTER 'Microsoft Excel (non-ODBC)'

        SET NATIVE PROPERTIES {\\\"root\\\":\\\"/Users/Shared/excel\\\",

                                \\\"filters\\\":\\\"*.xls\\\",

                                \\\"charset\\\":\\\"utf-8\\\"}

        SET ANNOTATION 'this is a excel datasource created using DSL api'\"]"

-u "admin:admin" -X POST "http://localhost:9400/rest/execute/v1/actions/dsl/invoke" -H "Content-Type:application/json"

MS Excel (ODBC) only on windows

//create excel datasource DSL

curl -d "[\"CREATE DATASOURCE /shared/examples/excelds

        BASED ON ADAPTER 'Microsoft Excel'

        CONNECT USING DSN 'excelodbc'

        FORMAT USING CHARACTER_SET 'utf-8'

        SET ANNOTATION 'this is a excel ODBC datasource created using DSL api'\"]"

-u "admin:admin" -X POST "http://localhost:9400/rest/execute/v1/actions/dsl/invoke" -H "Content-Type:application/json"

//specify create ds using native properties only --expect warning messages in logs

curl -d "[\"CREATE DATASOURCE /shared/examples/nativeexcelds4

    BASED ON ADAPTER 'Microsoft Excel'

    SET NATIVE PROPERTIES {\\\"dsn\\\":\\\"excelodbc\\\", \\\"charset\\\":\\\"utf-8\\\"}

    SET ANNOTATION 'this is a excel datasource created using DSL api native properties'\"]"

-u "admin:admin" -X POST "http://localhost:9400/rest/execute/v1/actions/dsl/invoke" -H "Content-Type:application/json"