A entity column generator is a column data generator that generates data from a specific provided csv file located in the entity connection.
If you want to provide your own data set, you can use the data set generator.
How to generate data with an entity?
The list of arguments that you can use in the data supplier are:
| Name | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|
| name | The name of the entity | Name of the column |
| column | The name of the column to the data from the entity | Name of the column |
| locale | The locale of the entity for entity localization | en |
| meta-columns | A map that links a local column to a metadata entity column | Empty |
All entities are stored under the entity built-in connection
tabul data list *@entity
path media_type
--------- ---------------
country inode/directory
firstname inode/directory
gender inode/directory
lastname inode/directory
prefix inode/directory
region inode/directory
subregion inode/directory
And every entity may have one or more locale
Example for the firstname entity
tabul data list firstname/*@entity
path media_type
-------------------------- ----------
firstname/firstname_ca.csv text/csv
firstname/firstname_de.csv text/csv
firstname/firstname_en.csv text/csv
firstname/firstname_es.csv text/csv
firstname/firstname_fr.csv text/csv
firstname/firstname_gd.csv text/csv
firstname/firstname_hu.csv text/csv
firstname/firstname_it.csv text/csv
firstname/firstname_nl.csv text/csv
firstname/firstname_pl.csv text/csv
firstname/firstname_pt.csv text/csv
firstname/firstname_sk.csv text/csv
firstname/firstname_tr.csv text/csv
An entity is CSV file:
Example with the firstname_fr.csv entity file
tabul data head firstname/firstname_fr.csv@entity
The first 10 rows of the data resource (firstname/firstname_fr.csv@entity):
firstname gender probability
--------- ------ --------------------------
Aadam M 3.14396359513727576E-7
Aadel M 6.52081338250694231E-7
Aadil M 0.000002142552968537995330
Aahil M 2.44530501844010337E-7
Aakash M 3.02752049902108036E-7
Aalia F 4.77416694076401133E-7
Aaliya F 0.000002422016399216864286
Aaliyah F 0.000028086074783226330085
Aalya F 0.000001490471630287301099
Aalyah F 0.000002585036733779537844