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This document describes operation of the deprecated legacy version of this adapter. For the current version, see TIBCO FTL Map Operators.
The Spotfire Streaming adapters for TIBCO FTL® map operations allow a StreamBase application to perform various operations on FTL maps, including getting and setting messages, iterating through a map's messages and removing messages from a map.
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Spotfire Spotfire Streaming Map Get Operator For TIBCO FTL, which allows a StreamBase application to retrieve a message with a specific key from a specified FTL map.
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Spotfire Spotfire Streaming Map Iterate Operator For TIBCO FTL, which allows a StreamBase application to add a message with a specific key to a specified FTL map.
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Spotfire Spotfire Streaming Map Remove Operator For TIBCO FTL, which allows a StreamBase application to retrieve all messages from a specified FTL map in one operation.
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Spotfire Spotfire Streaming Map Set Operator For TIBCO FTL, which allows a StreamBase application to remove a message with a specific key from a specified FTL map.
These adapters connect to the FTL realm server on start-up, and can additionally be disconnected and reconnected via their Control input port.
The adapters support a subset of StreamBase data types that contains tuples and lists, though lists may not contain elements of type list.
The adapters are configured through several properties set in their Properties view in StreamBase Studio. The properties include parameters used to connect to the realm server and the application and endpoint names.
This adapter requires access to the JAR file that implements the TIBCO FTL Java API
on your system, and any files referenced by that JAR file. The adapter was tested
with FTL version 3.1, and is compatible with higher versions as well (such as 5.0
and higher including 6.x). To make the TIBCO FTL Java API available to the adapter,
you must supply a maven dependency for it. The FTL sample comes with a launch
config which will install the tibftl.jar into your
local maven repository.
The tibftl.jar file, in turn, relies on various
native libraries, such as tibftljni.dll on Windows
and tibftljni.so on Linux. As with tibftl.jar, these native libraries are supplied as part of your
TIBCO FTL installation and are not included in StreamBase. Make sure to edit your
src/main/configurations/engine.conf and make changes
to reflect your current setup. Please see the FTL sample application for an example
configuration.
All four adapters have the following adapter properties:
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| Connect on Startup | If enabled, the adapter connects to the realm server when it starts. |
| Realm Server URLs |
A pipe-delimited ("|") list of realm server URLs
to which to connect (e.g. http://localhost:8080|http://localhost:8181).
Should the first server in the list become unavailable, the adapter will
automatically try to connect to the next one in the list, and so on.
|
| Username | The realm server username. |
| Password | The realm server password. |
| Application Name | The FTL application, which includes a set of endpoints and formats as configured in the realm server. |
| Application Instance | The FTL application instance. |
| Endpoint Name | The FTL endpoint, which abstracts the transport details. |
| Remove Map On Disconnect | When checked, this causes the adapter to remove the map from the FTL realm before disconnecting from it. |
| Log Level | Controls the level of verbosity the adapter uses to send notifications to the console. This setting can be higher than the containing application's log level. If set lower, the system log level is used. Available values, in increasing order of verbosity, are: OFF, ERROR, WARN, INFO, DEBUG, TRACE. |
| FTL Library Log Level | The log level used by the FTL library. Multiple FTL input and output adapter instances share the most verbose level configured in any adapter. |
Some of the adapters also offer additional properties:
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| Edit Schema Tab | These adapters have an additional tab named "Edit Schema", where the expected schema of incoming FTL messages must be specified. |
| Property | Description |
|---|---|
| Message Formats Tab | Use this tab to specify the names of the message formats used by the adapter. Top-level Message Format describes the name of the FTL message, and the Nested Message Formats list specifies the format names of any nested messages (that is, fields of type Message). |
Each of the four FTL Map adapters have at least one input port, with schemas described in this section.
This adapter only has one input port, which receives various commands described in this section. The port has the following schema:
| Field Name | Field Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Command | string |
The name of the operation to be performed. Valid values are:
|
| FTLMapName | string |
Name of the FTL map from which to retrieve the message (used by the
Get command). If the map does not exist, it
will be automatically created before running the operation.
|
| FTLKeyName | string |
Key of the message to fetch in the FTL map (used by the Get command).
|
| GroupID | string |
Identifier of the group to join or leave (used by the JoinGroup and LeaveGroup
commands).
|
| IsObserver | boolean |
Whether to join the group as a member (false)
or an observer (true) (used by the
JoinGroup command).
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| GroupMemberDescriptor | string |
JSON string to use as a group member descriptor (used by the JoinGroup command).
|
| GroupActivationInterval | double |
Number of milliseconds to use as an activation interval (used by the
JoinGroup command).
|
This adapter only has one input port, which receives various commands described in this section. The port has the following schema:
| Field Name | Field Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Command | string |
The name of the operation to be performed. Valid values are:
|
| FTLMapName | string |
Name of the FTL map from which to retrieve the messages (used by the
Iterate command). If the map does not exist,
it will be automatically created before running the operation.
|
| FTLLockMap | boolean |
If set to true, the FTL map will be locked
during the operation to avoid contention from other adapters.
|
| GroupID | string |
Identifier of the group to join or leave (used by the JoinGroup and LeaveGroup
commands).
|
| IsObserver | boolean |
Whether to join the group as a member (false)
or an observer (true) (used by the
JoinGroup command).
|
| GroupMemberDescriptor | string |
JSON string to use as a group member descriptor (used by the JoinGroup commmand).
|
| GroupActivationInterval | double |
Number of milliseconds to use as an activation interval (used by the
JoinGroup commmand).
|
This adapter only has one input port, which receives various commands described in this section. The port has the following schema:
| Field Name | Field Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Command | string |
The name of the operation to be performed. Valid values are:
|
| FTLMapName | string |
Name of the FTL map from which to remove the message (used by the
Remove command). If the map does not exist,
it will be automatically created before running the operation.
|
| FTLKeyName | string |
Key of the message to remove from the FTL map (used by the Remove command).
|
| FTLLockMap | string |
If set to true, the FTL map will be locked
during the operation to avoid contention from other adapters.
|
| GroupID | string |
Identifier of the group to join or leave (used by the JoinGroup and LeaveGroup
commands).
|
| IsObserver | boolean |
Whether to join the group as a member (false)
or an observer (true) (used by the
JoinGroup command).
|
| GroupMemberDescriptor | string |
JSON string to use as a group member descriptor (used by the JoinGroup command).
|
| GroupActivationInterval | double |
Number of milliseconds to use as an activation interval (used by the
JoinGroup command).
|
This adapter has two input ports, one which receives various commands (described in this section), and one which receives tuples to be placed in the FTL map as messages.
The Command port has the following schema:
| Field Name | Field Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Command | string |
The name of the operation to be performed. Valid values are:
|
| FTLMapName | string |
Name of the FTL map from which to retrieve the message (used by the
Get command). If the map does not exist, it
will be automatically created before running the operation.
|
| FTLKeyName | string |
Key of the message to fetch in the FTL map (used by the Get command).
|
| GroupID | string |
Identifier of the group to join or leave (used by the JoinGroup and LeaveGroup
commands).
|
| IsObserver | boolean |
Whether to join the group as a member (false)
or an observer (true) (used by the
JoinGroup command).
|
| GroupMemberDescriptor | string |
JSON string to use as a group member descriptor (used by the JoinGroup command).
|
| GroupActivationInterval | double |
Number of milliseconds to use as an activation interval (used by the
JoinGroup command).
|
The second input port, used to set messages in an FTL map, expects its schema to have at least the following fields:
| Field Name | Field Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FTLMapName | string | Name of the FTL map on which to set the message. If the map does not exist, it will be automatically created before running the operation. |
| FTLKeyName | string | Key to assign to the message in the FTL map. |
All other fields will be treated as values to be set on the outgoing FTL message.
Each of the four FTL Map adapters have at least one output port, to issue status, information and error tuples. The schema for this port is the same for all four adapters and is as follows:
| Field Name | Field Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| Status | string | Describes the type of event (Error, Success, etc.) |
| Time | timestamp | The time at which this status tuple was emitted. |
| Info | list<tuple> | A list of additional information strings, each contained in a tuple with a name / value pair. |
In addition to this status output port, some adapters also have other output port as described in the follwing subsections.
This adapter has a second output port to emit incoming FTL messages as tuples.
When it receives a Get command, the MapGet adapter
emits a tuple on its second output port representing the FTL message it retrieved
from the map. The port's schema is derived from the Edit Schema tab of the
adapter's property view and can contain a subset of StreamBase data types,
including lists and (nested) tuples to accommodate hierarchy in FTL messages. FTL
message fields are mapped to tuple fields by case-sensitive name. List fields may
contain elements of type double, long, string, timestamp, or tuple. In addition to
the fields specified on the Edit Schemas tab, each tuple will also have two extra
fields set automatically to indicate the map it came from and the key it was
assigned in the map:
| Field Name | Field Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FTLMapName | string |
Name of the FTL map from which this tuple was retrieved. If no message was
found in the FTL map with the FTLKeyName
specified in the Get command, this field will
be set to null.
|
| FTLKeyName | string |
Key of the message in the FTL map. If no message was found in the FTL map
with the FTLKeyName specified in the
Get command, this field will be set to null.
|
This adapter has a second output port to emit incoming FTL messages as tuples.
When it receives an Iterate command, the MapIterate
adapter emits a tuple on its second output port for each FTL message contained in
the specified map, ending with a marker tuple that has null values in its
FTLMapName and FTLKeyName fields to indicate the end of the iteration process.
The port's schema is derived from the Edit Schema tab of the adapter's property view and can contain a subset of StreamBase data types, including lists and (nested) tuples to accommodate hierarchy in FTL messages. FTL message fields are mapped to tuple fields by case-sensitive name. List fields may contain elements of type double, long, string, timestamp, or tuple. In addition to the fields specified on the Edit Schemas tab, each tuple will also have two extra fields set automatically to indicate the map it came from and the key it was assigned in the map:
| Field Name | Field Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
| FTLMapName | string |
Name of the FTL map from which this tuple was retrieved, or null if this is the end of the iteration operation.
|
| FTLKeyName | string |
Key of the message in the FTL map, or null if
this is the end of the iteration operation.
|
In processing incoming FTL messages, the adapters convert FTL data types to StreamBase data types (or vice-versa). As shown in the table below, each FTL type has a single corresponding StreamBase type. When an attempt to perform an invalid conversion occurs, a one-time warning for the field is displayed and the corresponding field in the tuple is set to null (or in the case of StreamBase-to-FTL conversions, the FTL field is omitted from the message).
| FTL Type | StreamBase Type |
|---|---|
| DATETIME | timestamp |
| DATETIME_ARRAY | list<timestamp> |
| DOUBLE | double |
| DOUBLE_ARRAY | list<double> |
| LONG | long |
| LONG_ARRAY | list<long> |
| MESSAGE | tuple |
| MESSAGE_ARRAY | list<tuple> |
| OPAQUE | blob |
| STRING | string |
| STRING_ARRAY | list<string> |
The TIBCO FTL Subscribing Input adapter uses typecheck messages to help you configure the adapter in your StreamBase application. In particular, the adapter generates typecheck messages when a required property has not been specified, the control input schema is missing a required field, or an input or output schema contains unsupported StreamBase data types.
The adapter generates messages on the status port during runtime under various conditions, including:
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The adapter connects, or fails to connect, to the realm server during start-up.
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An FTL message is acknowledged.
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The adapter is administratively disabled by the realm server.
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The adapter receives an advisory message.
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The adapter fails to dispatch an event on its event queue.
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The adapter fails to process an incoming FTL message.
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The adapter is suspended or resumed.
When suspended, the TIBCO FTL Subscribing Input Adapter disconnects from the realm server and stops processing incoming FTL messages.
When resumed, the adapter re-connects to the realm server, if it had been connected before being suspended, and resumes processing incoming FTL messages.