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Ingest HTTP Binary File

Copy binary file from HTTP endpoint to Azure Data Lake Storage Gen2.

Category: Ingest to Lakehouse | Tags: Ingestion

How it works

Ingest data from Web URL '<<SourceUri>>' into Data Lake location 'raw/<<DataLakeSystemFolder>>/<<DataLakeDatasetFolder>>'

To use this activity within the API, use an ActivityCode of WEB-ADLS.

Available Connections​

SourceConnection:

TargetConnection:

Example JSON​

An example of what the Task Config would look like for a task using this activity. Some of these variables would be set at the group level to avoid duplication between tasks.

{
  "SourceConnection": "MY-SOURCE-CONN",
  "DataLakeSystemFolder": "my_folder",
  "DataLakeDatasetFolder": "data",
  "DestinationFileName": "",
  "TargetConnection": "MY-TARGET-CONN"
}

Variable Reference​

The following variables are supported:

  • DataLakeDatasetFolder (Required) - Name of the folder in the Data Lake containing the dataset.

  • DataLakeSystemFolder (Required) - Name of the parent (System) folder in the Data Lake containing the dataset.

  • DestinationFileName (Required) - The name to give the file as it is landed in the Data Lake.

  • IsFederated (Optional) - Makes task available to other Insight Factories within this organisation.

  • Links (Optional) - NULL

  • MaximumNumberOfAttemptsAllowed (Optional) - The total number of times the running of this Task can be attempted.

  • MinutesToWaitBeforeNextAttempt (Optional) - If a Task run fails, the number of minutes to wait before re-attempting the Task.

  • RelativeUrl (Optional) - Relative URL from Source URI.

  • RetainHistory (Optional) - Should the raw files be saved to the History Container to preserve them?

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    **Retain History? ** By default, this flag is set to the value assigned in the Configuration item SaveRawFilesToHistory (signalled by the double triangle brackets around the Configuration item name e.g. &lt;&lt;SaveRawFilesToHistory&gt;&gt;). This default behaviour can be overridden here.

  • SourceConnection (Required) - Source connection to use.

  • TargetConnection (Optional) - Target connection to use.