/path/filename.txt

One specified file.

/path1/filename1.txt;/path2/filename2.txt

Two specified files.

/path/filename?.txt

All files satisfying the mask.

/path/*

All files in the specified directory.

/path?/*.txt

All .txt files in directories that satisfy the path? mask.

ftp://username:password@server/path/filename.txt

Denotes the path/filename.txt file on a remote server connected via an FTP protocol using username and password.

If the initial working directory differs from the server root directory, please use absolute FTP paths, see below.

ftp://username:password@server/%2Fpath/filename.txt

Denotes the /path/filename.txt file on a remote server - the initial slash must be escaped as %2F. The path is absolute with respect to the server root directory.

ftp://username:password@server/dir/*.txt

Denotes all files satisfying the mask on a remote server connected via an FTP protocol using username and password.

sftp://username:password@server/path/filename.txt

Denotes the filename.txt file on a remote server connected via an SFTP protocol using username and password.

sftp://username:password@server/path?/filename.txt

Denotes all files filename.txt in directories satisfying the mask on a remote server connected via SFTP protocol using username and password.

http://server/path/filename.txt

Denotes the filename.txt file on a remote server connected via an HTTP protocol.

https://server/path/filename.txt

Denotes the filename.txt file on a remote server connected via an HTTPS protocol.

s3://access_key_id:secret_access_key@s3.amazonaws.com/bucketname/path/filename.txt

Denotes the path/filename.txt object located in Amazon S3 web storage service in a bucket bucketname. The connection is established using the specified access key ID and secret access key.

az-blob://account:account_key@account.blob.core.windows.net/containername/path/filename.txt

Denotes the path/filename.txt object located in Azure Blob Storage service in a container containername. Connects using the specified Account Key. See Azure Blob Storage for other authentication options.

hdfs://CONNECTION_ID/path/filename.txt

Denotes the filename.txt file on Hadoop HDFS. The "CONNECTION_ID" stands for the ID of a Hadoop connection defined in a graph.

smb://domain%3Buser:password@server/path/filename.txt

smb2://domain%3Buser:password@server/path/filename.txt

Denotes a file located in Windows share (Microsoft SMB/CIFS protocol). The URL path may contain wildcards (both * and ? are supported). The server part may be a DNS name, an IP address or a NetBIOS name. The Userinfo part of the URL (domain%3Buser:password) is not mandatory and any URL reserved character it contains should be escaped using the %-encoding similarly to the semicolon ; character with %3B in the example (the semicolon is escaped because it collides with the default CloverDX file URL separator).

The SMB version 1 protocol is implemented in the JCIFS library which may be configured using Java system properties. See Setting Client Properties in JCIFS documentation for a list of all configurable properties.

The SMB version 2 and 3 protocol is implemented in the SMBJ library.