[teiid-designer-issues] [JBoss JIRA] (TEIIDDES-1388) Improve Flat File importer

Improve Flat File importer -------------------------- Key: TEIIDDES-1388 URL: https://issues.jboss.org/browse/TEIIDDES-1388 Project: Teiid Designer Issue Type: Enhancement Components: Import/Export Affects Versions: 7.7, 7.7.1 Reporter: Barry LaFond Assignee: Barry LaFond Fix For: Future The Flat File importer still lacks simplicity. Need to spend another cycle improving usability PAUL NITTEL wrote: I'm tinkering with this thing and have a few suggestions. (The problem with coming up with cool wizardly things is they spark other synapses thereby creating an endless flow of work.) The Create Teiid Flat File Connection action seems to be a mixture of building the data source connection and laying the groundwork for the transformation (like where are the column name and types). Moving this to the Create Source Model wizard might make it easier and flow better for the user. Rather than checkboxes that presume much about how flat file data may be constructed, how about allowing the user to tell you which lines are contain heading and type info (if any, of course)? In the case of my weird data file, there a comment in line 1, line 2 is blank, line 3 have column names and line 4 has types. Data starts in line 5. I realize my case is atypical, but might be worth consideration. ;-)