A Data URI or Data Uniform Resource Identifier is data resource attribute that identify uniquely a data resource.
It's a syntax that extends the notion of URI
If you use it as data selector, you would select only one data resource.
For a content data resource or container data resource
path@connection
where:
For a runtime data resource, we use a special data uri syntax:
(executablePath@executableConnection)@executionConnection
where:
As a data uri is a data resource attribute, you can see it with
tabul data list -a data-uri characters.csv@howto
path media_type data_uri
-------------- ---------- --------------------
characters.csv text/csv characters.csv@howto
tabul data info characters.csv@howto
Information about the data resource (characters.csv@howto)
attribute value description
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CHARACTER_SET UTF-8 The character set of the file
COLUMN_NAME lines The name of the column when the text content is returned on one column
COMMENT_CHARACTER # The comment character
DELIMITER_CHARACTER , The delimiter character
END_OF_RECORD \n, \r, \r\n The End Of Record string sequence
ESCAPE_CHARACTER The escape character
HEADER_ROW_ID 1 The id of the header row
IGNORE_EMPTY_LINE true Ignore empty line
QUOTE_CHARACTER " The quote character
URI file:///opt/tabulify/resources/howto/characters.csv The URI of the file
ABSOLUTE_PATH /opt/tabulify/resources/howto/characters.csv The absolute path on the data system
ACCESS_TIME 2025-11-10 15:34:45.519261734 The access time (access time)
COMMENT A comment
CONNECTION howto The connection name
COUNT 5 The number of records
CREATION_TIME 2025-11-10 15:34:41.449090141 The creation time (birth time)
DATA_URI characters.csv@howto The data uri
KIND csv The kind of media
LOGICAL_NAME characters The logical name
MD5 d0d7f020d834cde13d0a14733520d4d6 The Md5 hash
MEDIA_SUBTYPE csv The media subType
MEDIA_TYPE text/csv The media type
NAME characters.csv The name of the data resource
PARENT The parent
PATH characters.csv The relative path to the default connection path
SHA384 6e96667d1306abb445b5608ec36d193a6dc775a6adc74844531906bf4691eee5f32ce7c423e38c9c072692f459c57d5f The Sha384 hash
SHA384_INTEGRITY sha384-bpZmfRMGq7RFtWCOw20ZOm3Hdaatx0hEUxkGv0aR7uXzLOfEI+OMnAcmkvRZxX1f The sha384 value used in the html integrity attribute
SIZE 432 The number of byte
TABULAR_TYPE data The tabular type
UPDATE_TIME 2025-11-10 15:34:41.449090141 The last update time (modify time)