Good idea, I created a PR [1] Cheeers, Hans
[1] https://github.com/apache/hop/pull/5140 On 8 Apr 2025 at 15:09 +0200, Gabriel Grohmann <[email protected]>, wrote: > Alright, that works. Didn't consider that option 🙂 > > Maybe add that example to the documentation for the next person, that doesn't > see the forest for the trees? > > Cheers > Gabriel > > > Von: Hans Van Akelyen <[email protected]> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 8. April 2025 15:00 > An: [email protected] <[email protected]>; [email protected] > <[email protected]> > Betreff: Re: Azure VFS and metadata: correct usage > > The name you give to your new metadata type will be the prefix. > > so let's say you created a metadata object name myAzure it will be > myAzure://[containername] > > Hope this helps > On 8 Apr 2025 at 14:39 +0200, Gabriel Grohmann > <[email protected]>, wrote: > > Hey there, > > > > I want to connect to an azure blob storage through the (new) metadata > > alternative, but haven't had any luck yet. > > > > So far I managed to use the general account settings, which are stored > > within the hop-config.json. However, I didn't figure out yet how to make > > use of the Azure Authentication which is stored under metadata. If I use > > azure://[containername] or [metadataname] in the text file input, hop will > > still revert to the global data or returns an error. The only hint I got > > from the documentation is "this will be used in file paths name://". But no > > clue, how or where this would be used in particular. Obviously using > > name://[metadata name] in the path field of a text input doesn't work. > > > > Thanks for your assistance. > > > > Cheers > > Gabriel > > > > hop documentation: > > https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/metadata-types/azure-authentication.html > > https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/vfs/azure-blob-storage-vfs.html > > > >
