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  • authentication
    The Authentication object of the Source document is a subset of the full Authentication object in that it only uses the 'username' and 'password' fields. The Database Harvester uses the username and password from the Authentication object as database credentials (if needed).
    • username
    • password
      Note: The password field in the Authentication object is currently clear text. If the string value placed in password is clear text it is not encrypted by Infinit.e. Encryption of the password field is planned for a future release.
  • database
    The Database object 
    • databaseType
      The type of RDBMS to connect to. Valid values currently include: mysql, db2, oracle, mssqlserver, sybase.
    • hostname
      The hostname of the database server to connect to, i.e. "my.databaseserver.com" in the example above.
    • port
    • The port that the database accepts incoming connections on.
    • databaseName
      The name of the database to connect to.
    • query
      The query field is used to specify the SQL used to perform a full extraction of data for the source. This is generally used the first time the harvester extracts data from a source with incremental extractions being specified using the deltaQuery below.
    • deltaQuery
      The deltaQuery field is used to specify the SQL that extracts data from the source RDBS based on some sort of delta value like created or modified data for a record.
    • deleteQuery

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