Talend Tutorial Step by Step - Post 2: Creating a generic schema from the existing metadata

Generic schemas Generic schemas aren’t tied to a particular source, so they can be used as a shared resource across multiple types of data source or they can be used to define data sources that are generated, such as the output from custom SQL queries.

Any schema can be easily converted into a generic schema to enable it to be re-used.

The following recipe shows two methods of creating generic schemas;

1. A pre-existing schema in the metadata repository

Rename it as you want by editing the Generic schema

2. From a built-in schema

This will open a windows file save dialogue. Save the file as customerDelimited.xml

Now create a new generic schema from the saved XML file by right-clicking Generic schemas, and selecting the option Create generic schema from XML.

Cheers!