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<h2><a href="https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/TEIID/File+Data+Sources">File Data Sources</a></h2>
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<h1><a name="FileDataSources-"></a><font color="#000000"><b>File Data Sources</b></font></h1>
<p><font color="#333333">File data sources use a Teiid specific JCA connector "teiid-connector-file.rar", which is deployed into the AS7.x during installation. There are many ways to create the file data source, using CLI, </font><font color="#005e8f">[<font color="#005e8f"></font>AdminShell</font>|AdminShell]<font color=""><font color="#333333"></font>, admin-console etc. The example shown below uses the CLI tool, as this works in both Standalone and Domain modes.</font></p>
<p><font color="#333333">Execute following command using </font><font color="#005e8f">[<font color="#005e8f"></font>CLI</font>|https://docs.jboss.org/author/display/AS7/Admin+Guide#AdminGuide-RunningtheCLI]<font color=""><font color="#333333"></font> once you connected to the Server. Make sure you provide the correct directory name and other properties below. Add any additional properties required by the connector by duplicating the "connection-definitions" command below. Edit the JNDI name to match the JNDI name you used in VDB.</font></p>
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/subsystem=resource-adapters/resource-adapter=fileDS:add(archive=teiid-connector-file.rar, transaction-support=NoTransaction)
/subsystem=resource-adapters/resource-adapter=fileDS/connection-definitions=fileDS:add(jndi-name=java:/fileDS, class-name=org.teiid.resource.adapter.file.FileManagedConnectionFactory, enabled=true, use-java-context=true)
/subsystem=resource-adapters/resource-adapter=fileDS/connection-definitions=fileDS/config-properties=Parentdirectory:add(value=/home/rareddy/testing/)
/subsystem=resource-adapters/resource-adapter=fileDS/connection-definitions=fileDS/config-properties=AllowParentPaths:add(value=true)
/subsystem=resource-adapters/resource-adapter=fileDS/connection-definitions=fileDS:enable
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<div class='panelMacro'><table class='infoMacro'><colgroup><col width='24'><col></colgroup><tr><td valign='top'><img src="/author/images/icons/emoticons/information.gif" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle" alt="" border="0"></td><td><font color="#333333">To find out all the properties that are supported by this File Connector execute the following command in the CLI.</font><br/>
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<pre class="theme: Confluence; brush: java; gutter: false" style="font-size:12px; font-family: ConfluenceInstalledFont,monospace;">/subsystem=teiid:read-rar-description(rar-name=teiid-connector-file.rar)</pre>
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<div class='panelMacro'><table class='warningMacro'><colgroup><col width='24'><col></colgroup><tr><td valign='top'><img src="/author/images/icons/emoticons/forbidden.gif" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle" alt="" border="0"></td><td><font color="#333333">As of AS 7.1 CR1b release the above does not work without restarting the Server. This issue will be fixed before 7.2 Final.</font></td></tr></table></div>
<div class='panelMacro'><table class='tipMacro'><colgroup><col width='24'><col></colgroup><tr><td valign='top'><img src="/author/images/icons/emoticons/check.gif" width="16" height="16" align="absmiddle" alt="" border="0"></td><td><b>Developer's Tip</b><br /><font color="#333333">If the JBoss AS 7.x is running in standalone mode, you can also manually edit the "<jboss-install>/standalone/configuration/standalone-teiid.xml" file and add the XML configuration defined in "<jboss-install>/docs/teiid/datasources/file" directory under "resource-adapters" subsystem. Shutdown the server before you edit this file, and restart after the modifications are done.</font></td></tr></table></div>
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