Handle Transforming Reader Failures
Updated: Aug 28, 2026
package com.northconcepts.datapipeline.examples.cookbook;
import java.io.File;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.core.DataReader;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.core.DataWriter;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.core.StreamWriter;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.filter.FieldFilter;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.filter.rule.PatternMatch;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.job.Job;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.memory.MemoryReader;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.memory.MemoryWriter;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.transform.RenameField;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.transform.TransformingReader;
import com.northconcepts.datapipeline.xml.XmlReader;
public class HandleTransformingReaderFailures {
public static void main(String[] args) {
// save discarded records in memory, but can be any DataWriter
MemoryWriter discardWriter = new MemoryWriter();
// add a "rename_field_exception" field to each record containing the reason it was discarded
String discardReasonFieldName = "rename_field_exception";
DataReader reader = new XmlReader(new File("example/data/input/call-center-agents-2.xml"))
.addField("id", "//record/@id")
.addField("first_name", "//record/@first_name")
.addField("last_name", "//record/@last_name")
.addField("hired_on", "//record/@hired_on")
.addRecordBreak("//record");
// rename the field "first_name" to "last_name" for first names starting with 'B'
// generates an exception because the "last_name" field already exists
// discardWriter will contain all records with first names starting with 'B'
reader = new TransformingReader(reader, discardWriter, discardReasonFieldName)
.setCondition(new FieldFilter("first_name", new PatternMatch("B.*")))
.add(new RenameField("first_name", "last_name"));
DataWriter writer = new StreamWriter(System.out);
// write the successful condition records to STDOUT
Job.run(reader, writer);
// write the discarded records to STDOUT
System.out.println("\n---- The discarded records ----");
Job.run(new MemoryReader(discardWriter.getRecordList()), new StreamWriter(System.out));
}
}
