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    Chapter 35. Parameters

    Internal Parameters
    External (Shared) Parameters
    Graph Parameter Editor
    Secure Graph Parameters
    Parameters with CTL2 Expressions (Dynamic Parameters)
    Environment Variables
    Canonicalizing File Paths
    Using Parameters

    Parameters are similar to constants/macros you can define once and use on various places in graph configuration.

    Main benefits of parameters are centralization (later change the values only in one place) and configuration.

    Values of graph parameters are always converted to string. (For example, if the value is represented by a CTL code returning a non-string result, the result will be converted to string.)

    Every value, number, path, filename, attribute, etc. can be set up or changed with the help of parameters except import statement in CTL code.

    [Important]Important

    Parameters cannot be used in import statement in CTL code.

    Creating Parameters

    Graph parameters can be created using Graph Parameter Editor or using Export As Graph Parameter button in Edit Component Dialog.

    Parameter Name

    The names of parameters may contain uppercase and lowercase letters (A-Z,a-z), digits (0-9) and the underscore character (_). Additionally, the name must not start with a digit.

    Example 35.1. Parameter Name

    PARAMETER1 - valid parameter name

    My_Cool_Parameter_002 - valid parameter name

    127001 - invalid parameter name - begins with digit

    My parameter - invalid parameter name - contains space character

    My-Great-Parameter - invalid parameter name - contains hyphen character

    Bücher - invalid parameter name - contains diacritics.


    Priorities of Parameters

    Graph parameters have lower priority than those specified in the Main tab or Parameters tab of Run Configurations.... In other words, both internal and external parameters can be overwritten by those specified in Run Configurations.... However, both external and internal parameters have higher priority than all environment variables and can overwrite them.

    Each parameter can be created as:

    The value of parameters can be:

    Graph parameter editor is described in Graph Parameter Editor.

    List of Parameters

    The list of parameters related to the project structure can be found in Standard Structure of All CloverDX Projects.

    There are also some parameters that can be used in graphs or jobflow executed in the Server environment.

    [Note]Compatibility notice

    CloverETL 3.5.x and later uses a new format of parameters different from CloverETL 3.4.x (and earlier).

    New versions can read the old format and convert it to new format, but the new format is not compatible with older versions.