OdiRef.getTable within java for KM script generation

Question

Hi all,
it seems like I've hit another brick wall.
I was developing a KM script and ahve got to the point below, which includes some basic JAVA code to create our very own table prefixed with "A$_":
<%
String targTableName = odiRef.getTable("L", "TARG_NAME", "A");
targTableName = "A$_"+targTableName;
%>
create table <%=targTableName%>
     <%=odiRef.getColList("", "[COL_NAME]\t[DEST_WRI_DT] NULL", ",\n\t", "","")%>
This is however crashing.
When investigating further we noticed that the call to odiRef.getTable is not actually returning the tablename but the following string "<?=snpRef.getObjectName("L", "payment", "ODI_TESTING_PG", "GLOBAL", "D") ?>" (We found this by doing targTableName.substring(1,targTableName.length()) which effectively breaks this script from executing and produces the Target Code within the Loading Task Session as below:
create table A$_?=snpRef.getObjectName("L", "payment", "ODI_TESTING_PG", "GLOBAL", "D") ?>
     id     NUMBER(10) NULL,
     customer     NUMBER(10) NULL,
     description     VARCHAR2(4000) NULL,
etc...
Does anyone have any information about this? Documentation doesn't seem to contain any answers?
My initial assumption is that there are 2 passes of executions, The Java execution and a subsequent execution that executes code within <? tags. Does anyone know what the <? are supposed to contain? Jython?
Any help, even if anything jsut confirms to us that the script above does not work will be very much appreciated.

Answer 1

Hi
-<% is 100% DESIGN time, most of them get translated to <? for further processing when the agent runs the scenario,
-<? is executed by the agent when preparing a session,
-<$ is converted just before the task is executed and was added to be able to set task names (that's the setTaskName() method),
-<@ is converted at the last minute at execution time, typically to get passwords in cleartext (so that these don't get dumped in the logs).
This is the type of thing you would need to do, but the target table name will prob have schema.table format, so you will need more work..
<$
String targTableName = "<%=odiRef.getTable("L", "TARG_NAME", "A")%>";
targTableName = "A$_"+targTableName;
$>
create table <$=targTableName$>
<%=odiRef.getColList("", "[COL_NAME]\t[DEST_WRI_DT] NULL", ",\n\t", "","")%>
See below for <$
https://blogs.oracle.com/dataintegration/entry/odi_11g_dynamic_and_flexible
Cheers
David