user attribute table - write attribute names and datatypes as rows

Hi Daniel, Try this link , you might need a python caller. then use the GetAttribute Method,  Steve

 

 

http://www.techques.com/question/26-27256/FME-values-used-in-python

Hi Daniel, the Schema (Any Format) Reader might help you.

 

http://docs.safe.com/fme/html/FME_ReadersWriters/Default.htm#schema/schema.htm

 

Takashi

Thanks for the replies. The Schema (Any Format) Reader combined with a ListExploder to give the attribute list gave me exactly what I wanted - Thanks Takashi. I will have to look into using the Python caller sometime as well.

Regarding the Python FME Objects API.

 

FMEFeature.getAllAttributeNames method returns a list containing all the attribute names including format attributes.

 

And FMEFeature.getAttributeNullMissingAndType method can be used to know data type of a specific attribute, but it returns a data type identifier interpreted internally by FME, does not return a data type name defined in the source dataset. There is not a simple API method to retrieve data type names defined in a dataset.

 

A possible way is:

 

- create an FMEUniversalReader class instance associated to the format,

 

- call its "open" method to open the dataset,

 

- and then call its "readSchema" method to create features containing schema information as attributes for each feature type in the dataset.

 

It will be a good, interesting challenge to learn more about the API, it's worth to try. But I don't think it's a practical solution in this case.

 

In the actual workspace, I would recommend you to use the Schema (Any Format) Reader.