“Hello. I am Elara. I have five bakeries. My PDI transformation is broken. The error says ‘Cannot get a String from a double.’ I don’t know what a double is, except a type of espresso. Please. I have a spreadsheet of croissant sales that is crying.”
But they all remembered the lesson:
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Then came "Maria_D" from Brazil: “Don’t use JavaScript for butter cost, silly! Use a ‘User Defined Java Expression.’ Or better, a ‘Calculator’ step. I’ll send you a sample .kjb.” “Hello
Defeated, she did what any desperate open-source user does: she posted on the Pentaho Community Forums. My PDI transformation is broken
She attached a screenshot. The transformation looked like a plate of spaghetti.