How to set Fileinput directory value from properties?

Question

If my flow is File Input -> Compute Node -> File Output, how can I set the File Input directory value based on a User Defined Property? I will have a different file drop directory for dev, qa and prod and don’t want this hard coded anywhere. If it cannot be done using my User Defined Properties, how else can I accomplish this?

Answer 1

Create configurable properties per environment and define the input directory there.

Properties for dev:

# File: yourapp-dev.properties
yourflow#File Input.inputDirectory = ./yourapp/dev/in

Properties for qa:

# File: yourapp-qa.properties
yourflow#File Input.inputDirectory = ./yourapp/qa/in

Apply the properties per environment. For dev it would be:

mqsiapplybaroverride -b yourapp.bar -p yourapp-dev.properties -r

Now you can deploy yourapp.bar to the dev environment.