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Overview

The CSV Directory Connector supports provisioning to and from a directory of files in CSV format.

Its typical usage should be bulk-loading.

Installation

Follow these steps to run the stand-alone connector server:

Download the connector server jar file and store it in the connector server directory (any directory).
Download the CSV directory connector jar file and store it in the bundles subdirectory.
Start the connector server. For more information, see the page about this.

The following table describes all of the properties that you can specify for the configuration:

Configuration Property	Type	Required	Default Value	Description
Source Path	String	X		Absolute path of a directory where the CSV files to be processed are located
File Mask	String	X		Regular expression describing files to be processed (e.g. ->.\.csv<- to include all csv files)
File Encoding	String		Charset.defaultCharset()	Basic encoding of the file.
Field Delimiter	String		,	Delimiter used to separate fields in CSV files
Text qualifier	String		"	Delimiter to determine beginning and end of text in value
Key column name	String	X		Name of the column used to identify user uniquely
Password column name	String			Name of the column used to specify user password
Delete column name	String			Name of the column used to specify users to be deleted
Value quotation required	Boolean		true	Specify if value quotation is required
Column names	String	X		Column names separated by comma
Ignore header	Boolean		true	Specify it first line file must be ignored
Key separator	String		,	Character used to separate keys in a multi-key scenario
Status Column	String			Name of the status column where the account's status (enabled/disabled/...) are stored.
Disabled Status Value	String		false	Value of 'status column' indicating disabled users.
Enabled Status Value	String		true	Value of 'status column' indicating enabled users.
Default Status Value	String		true	Default value for 'status column' in case of value not provided.