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ReferenceDataSource - Amazon Managed Service for Apache Flink (formerly Amazon Kinesis Data Analytics for Apache Flink)

ReferenceDataSource

For a SQL-based Kinesis Data Analytics application, describes the reference data source by providing the source information (Amazon S3 bucket name and object key name), the resulting in-application table name that is created, and the necessary schema to map the data elements in the Amazon S3 object to the in-application table.

Contents

ReferenceSchema

Describes the format of the data in the streaming source, and how each data element maps to corresponding columns created in the in-application stream.

Type: SourceSchema object

Required: Yes

TableName

The name of the in-application table to create.

Type: String

Length Constraints: Minimum length of 1. Maximum length of 32.

Required: Yes

S3ReferenceDataSource

Identifies the S3 bucket and object that contains the reference data. A SQL-based Kinesis Data Analytics application loads reference data only once. If the data changes, you call the UpdateApplication operation to trigger reloading of data into your application.

Type: S3ReferenceDataSource object

Required: No

See Also

For more information about using this API in one of the language-specific AWS SDKs, see the following:

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