Hi,
here is the complete list of supported formats for the Joiner in FME 2013 SP4:
Except for the addition of two Amazon entries, the list look unchanged in FME 2014 Beta.
Since you're touching on performance, you might also benefit from looking at the InlineQuerier. It can be very efficient if you're joining several datasets. In other words, if you have several chained Joiners you can probably replace them both with a single InlineQuerier.
If you're using the Joiner, make sure that you fully utilise the prefetch query (
see the help), it can make a huge difference in performance if the joined dataset is of moderate size and FME can fit it all into memory.
David
Thanks for the update, now another issue. Have downloaded the 2013 SP4 and was able to use the file geodatabase on the joiner. Now I've got another issue which likely should be moved to another question, but going to put it here first.
I'm using raw data of the parcel_polygons and attempting to aggregate the ones that are non-contiguous but have the same parcel id. I thought that the transformer/function to use was Aggregate, however when I use it (or not) I keep getting the following message
"INFORM|Transaction #11 was successfully committed
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.8|ERROR |Cannot write a non-area feature to an area feature class
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|STATS |Storing feature(s) to FME feature store file `J:\\Fme/fgdb2oracle_mergeparceldata_log.ffs'
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |Feature Type: `ParcelsAggregated'
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |Attribute(encoded: utf-16) : `PID' has value `272223083000040'
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |Attribute(64 bit real) : `Shape_Area' has value `3159.85499801344'
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |Attribute(64 bit real) : `Shape_Length' has value `426.027720073092'
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |Attribute(string) : `__wb_out_feat_type__' has value `ParcelsAggregated'
Attribute(string) : `fme_geometry' has value `fme_aggregate'
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |Attribute(string) : `fme_type' has value `fme_area'
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |Attribute(string) : `geodb_type' has value `geodb_polygon'
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |Attribute(string) : `multi_writer_id' has value `0'
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |Attribute(32 bit unsigned integer): `numofparts' has value `1'
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |Coordinate System: `FL83-EF'
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |Geometry Type: Multiple Geometry
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |Front Appearance Reference: `<inherited_or_default_appearance>'
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |Back Appearance Reference: `<inherited_or_default_appearance>'
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |Number of Geometries: 1
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |--------------------------------------
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |Geometry Number: 0
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | Geometry Type: IFMEMultiArea
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | Number of Areas: 2
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | --------------------------------------
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | Area Number: 0
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | Geometry Type: IFMEPolygon
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | Boundary:
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | Geometry Type: IFMELine
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | Number of Coordinates: 22 -- Coordinate Dimension: 2
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | (468157.368973354,1538764.76304782)(468156.732154372,1538683.91002765)(468156.629996814,1538670.93970604)(468156.596773771,1538670.93868901)(468150.272935885,1538670.74510213)
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | (468150.262105685,1538675.4200061)(468137.691558107,1538675.39088431)(468137.679171877,1538680.73745058)(468137.671072453,1538684.23360315)(468138.398973031,1538684.23528946)
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | (468138.929692681,1538752.43276525)(468133.723417249,1538752.47328101)(468133.604392825,1538737.17864361)(468114.598888909,1538737.32654636)(468114.598888909,1538759.77497345)
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | (468114.915205088,1538759.75740034)(468114.920022251,1538760.63894022)(468109.731412936,1538760.66729327)(468109.742848999,1538764.81290359)(468116.827602978,1538766.14272796)
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | (468149.621538704,1538772.29822399)(468157.368973354,1538764.76304782)
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | --------------------------------------
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | Area Number: 1
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | Geometry Type: IFMEPolygon
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | Boundary:
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | Geometry Type: IFMELine
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | Number of Coordinates: 7 -- Coordinate Dimension: 2
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | (468132.102207298,1538731.65034003)(468131.87128331,1538700.55257629)(468114.961783083,1538700.6781419)(468109.566037583,1538700.71820931)(468109.593947173,1538710.83552356)
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR | (468109.651826747,1538731.81705078)(468132.102207298,1538731.65034003)
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |===========================================================================
2013-11-12 18:39:17| 456.8| 0.0|ERROR |A fatal error has occurred. Check the logfile above for details"
It appears that it is kicking out lines from the polygon layer - how is that possible? ESRI doesn't allow lines and polys on the same layer. I've got the geometry filter in there as well and kicking only 'area' through. It is working for at least 11K of the 432K features before I get this error. I haven't even started the join at this time, only reading the polys, sort them, then filter, then aggregate and write the new geometry.
Any insight is greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Lorinda
