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    Placeholders

    Placeholder may be used in some fields of tasks. They are especially useful for email tasks, where you can generate the content of email according to context variables.

    Note: In most cases, you can avoid this by using email templates (See E-mail task for details)

    These fields are preprocessed by Apache Velocity templating engine. See the Velocity project URL for syntax description http://velocity.apache.org/.

    There are several context variables, which you can use in placeholders and even for creating loops and conditions.

    • event

    • now

    • user

    • run

    • sandbox

    Some of them may be empty depending on the type of the event. For example, if a task is processed because of a graph event, then run and sandbox variables contain related data, otherwise they are empty.

    Table 29.2. Placeholders useful in email templates

    Variable nameContains
    nowCurrent date-time
    user The user, who caused this event. It may be an owner of a schedule, or someone who executed a graph. It contains sub-properties which are accessible using dot notation (i.e. ${user.email}) email:
    • user.email
    • user.username
    • user.firstName
    • user.lastName
    • user.groups (list of values)
    run A data structure describing one single graph execution. It contains sub-properties which are accessible using dot notation (i.e. ${run.jobFile})
    • job.jobFile
    • job.status
    • job.startTime
    • job.stopTime
    • job.errNode
    • job.errMessage
    • job.errException
    • job.logLocation
    tracking A data structure describing a status of components in a graph execution. It contains sub-properties which are accessible using the Velocity syntax for loops and conditions.
    #if (${tracking})
    <table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
    #foreach ($phase in $tracking.trackingPhases)
    <tr><td>phase: ${phase.phaseNum}</td>
        <td>${phase.executionTime} ms</td>
        <td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
       #foreach ($node in $phase.trackingNodes)
          <tr><td>${node.nodeName}</td>
              <td>${node.result}</td>
              <td></td><td></td><td></td></tr>
          #foreach ($port in $node.trackingPorts)
             <tr><td></td><td></td>
                 <td>${port.type}:${port.index}</td>
                 <td>${port.totalBytes} B</td>
                 <td>${port.totalRows} rows</td></tr>
          #end
       #end
    #end
    </table>
    #end
    }
    sandbox A data structure describing a sandbox containing an executed graph. It contains sub-properties which are accessible using dot notation (i.e. ${sandbox.name})
    • sandbox.name
    • sandbox.code
    • sandbox.rootPath
    schedule A data structure describing a schedule which triggered this task. It contains sub-properties which are accessible using dot notation (i.e. ${schedule.description})
    • schedule.description
    • schedule.startTime
    • schedule.endTime
    • schedule.lastEvent
    • schedule.nextEvent
    • schedule.fireMisfired