Azure Blob Storage Writer Activity¶

Writes specified view to Azure Blob Storage as a file.

Note

Authentication keys are set as azure-account-name and azure-account-key under job additional parameters.

Parameters¶

Name	Description	Type	Default
Title	Title of the activity. Its displayed on the designer.	text
View	Name of the DataRow view that is going to be written into the file.	text
Path	File path in wasb[s]://<containername>@<accountname>.blob.core.windows.net/<path> format.	text
Format	File format. Please see below for supported file formats.	enum
Partition By	List of columns to partition the output by.	enum	error
Mode	Write mode. Please see blow for list modes and their meanings.	enum	error
Options	Additional options (e.g. delimiter for CSV file could be specified as [delimiter,\t] if file is tab delimited	key-value

Name	Description
Parquet	Apache Parquet is a columnar storage format.
ORC	ORC is also columnar storage format.
Avro	Apache Avro is a data serialization format.
CSV	CSV is a delimited text file format.
JSON	JSON is a lightweight data-interchange format.

Name	Description
error	Fail if file already exists.
append	Append to existing file or create new.
overwrite	Overwrite existing file or create new.
ignore	Ignore if file already exists or create new.