Azure - Blob Storage Writer

[ | version 3.0]

Connector

The connector is forbidden for use by the platform background agent.

Connector processing type: Both (Row by row & Bulk), Default type: Row by row!

This connector allows to upload files to Azure blob storage.

More information how to setup blob container can be found in Documentation.

Creating Azure Blob Storage

On Azure portal make these steps to be able to upload files to Azure blob:

1. Create storage account (account name)
2. Create container in this storage account (container name)
3. Setup authorization by shared access signature (SAS) that will have permissions for write to created container (SAS Token).

Configuration

Configure connector based on each steps before (account and container name and SAS token).

Input Example

Input has following properties: - BlobName - it can be file name with extension and if you use forward slashes it will be visible as in directories, but it is just virtual structure - Data - base64 data of file

Following data from JS Mapper

[
    {
        "BlobName": "folder1/folder2/test.txt",
        "Data": "ewogICAgIlN1Y2Nlc3MiOnRydWUKfQ=="
    },
    {
        "FileName": "root.txt",
        "Data": "ewogICAgIlN1Y2Nlc3MiOnRydWUKfQ=="
    }
]

will be uploaded to Azure blob container.

folder1/folder2/test.txt
root.txt

Configuration

Azure Blob Connection configuration

Account Name

Name of storage account created in section Storage accounts on Azure portal.

Container Name

Name of the container that must be created for given storage account.

Sas Token

Shared Access Signature (SAS).

Authentication Type

Authorization type for Azure blob storage.

• Anonymous - select if blob container is accessible for public
• Shared Access Signature (SAS) - must be created with Write permission for blob container on Azure portal

Input & Output Schema

Input

Input is Azure Blob Writer Input Schema which contains blob names and its data which will be uploaded to selected container.

Azure Blob Writer Input Schema (ver. 1.0.0)

Column	Data type	Allow null	Description
BlobName	string	false	Name of the blob with extension (can contain virtual path)
Data	Base64	false	Base64 encoded content of file

Example input data

BlobName: string	Data: Base64
test.txt	ewogICAgIlN1Y2Nlc3MiOnRydWUKfQ==
virtualDirectory\test2.txt	ewogICAgIlN1Y2Nlc3MiOnRydWUKfQ==

Output

Output is Azure Blob Writer Output Schema which contains Url address to blob.

Azure Blob Writer Output Schema (ver. 1.0.0)

Column	Data type	Allow null	Description
Url	string	false	Url address to download uploaded blob
LastModified	DateTime	false	Last modified date time

Example output data

Url: string	LastModified: DateTime
https://dextest.blob.co...	2022-09-02T06:16:05Z

Release notes

3.0.3

• Fixed shared nuget package versions.

3.0.2

• Fixed right processing of nullable properties.

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