Router Transformation in Informatica

Active and connected transformation.

A Router transformation is similar to a Filter transformation because both transformations allow you to use a condition to test data. A Filter transformation tests data for one condition and drops the rows of data that do not meet the Condition. However, a Router transformation tests data for one or more conditions And gives you the option to route rows of data that do not meet any of the conditions to a default output group.

Example: If we want to keep employees of France, India, US in 3 different tables, then we can use 3 Filter transformations or 1 Router transformation.

Mapping A uses three Filter transformations while Mapping B produces the same result with one Router transformation.

A Router transformation consists of input and output groups, input and output ports, group filter conditions, and properties that we configure in the Designer.

Working with Groups

A Router transformation has the following types of groups:

• Input: The Group that gets the input ports.
• Output: User Defined Groups and Default Group. We cannot modify or delete Output ports or their properties.

User-Defined Groups: We create a user-defined group to test a condition based on incoming data. A user-defined group consists of output ports and a group filter Condition. We can create and edit user-defined groups on the Groups tab with the Designer. Create one user-defined group for each condition that we want to specify.

The Default Group: The Designer creates the default group after we create one new user-defined group. The Designer does not allow us to edit or delete the default group. This group does not have a group filter condition associated with it. If all of the conditions evaluate to FALSE, the IS passes the row to the default group.

Example: Filtering employees of Department 10 to EMP_10, Department 20 to EMP_20 and rest to EMP_REST

• Source is EMP Table.
• Create 3 target tables EMP_10, EMP_20 and EMP_REST in shared folder. Structure should be same as EMP table.
• Create the shortcuts in your folder.

Creating Mapping:

1. Open folder where we want to create the mapping.

2. Click Tools -> Mapping Designer.

3. Click Mapping-> Create-> Give mapping name. Ex: m_router_example

4. Drag EMP from source in mapping.

5. Click Transformation -> Create -> Select Router from list. Give name and

Click Create. Now click done.

6. Pass ports from SQ_EMP to Router Transformation.

7. Edit Router Transformation. Go to Groups Tab

8. Click the Groups tab, and then click the Add button to create a user-defined Group. The default group is created automatically..

9. Click the Group Filter Condition field to open the Expression Editor.

10. Enter a group filter condition. Ex: DEPTNO=10

11. Click Validate to check the syntax of the conditions you entered.

12. Create another group for EMP_20. Condition: DEPTNO=20

13. The rest of the records not matching the above two conditions will be passed to DEFAULT group. See sample mapping

14. Click OK -> Click Apply -> Click Ok.

15. Now connect the ports from router to target tables.

16. Click Mapping -> Validate

17. Repository -> Save

• Create Session and Workflow as described earlier. Run the Workflow and see the data in target table.
• Make sure to give connection information for all 3 target tables.

Sample Mapping:

Difference between Router and Filter :

We cannot pass rejected data forward in filter but we can pass it in router. Rejected data is in Default Group of router.