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This section contains information on the fie formats and compression schemes that are supported for input to and output of Trifacta® Wrangler.
NOTE: To work with formats that are proprietary to a desktop application, such as Microsoft Excel, you do not need the supporting application installed on your desktop.
Filenames
NOTE: Filenames that include special characters can cause problems during import or when publishing to a file-based datastore. Do not use the slash (/) character in your filenames.
Native Input File Formats
Trifacta® Wrangler can read and import directly these file formats:
Excel (XLS/XLSX)
Tip: You may import multiple worksheets from a single workbook at one time. See Import Excel Data in the User Guide.
- CSV
JSON, including nested
NOTE: Trifacta Wrangler requires that JSON files be submitted with one valid JSON object per line. Consistently malformed JSON objects or objects that overlap linebreaks might cause import to fail. See Initial Parsing Steps in the User Guide
- Plain Text
- LOG
- TSV
Parquet
NOTE: When working with datasets sourced from Parquet files, lineage information and the
$sourcerownumberreference are not supported.
Avro
For more information on data is handled initially, see Initial Parsing Steps in the User Guide.
Native Output File Formats
Trifacta Wrangler can write to these file formats:
- CSV
- JSON
Compression Algorithms
Read Native File Formats
| GZIP | BZIP | Snappy | |
| CSV | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| JSON | Supported | Supported | Supported |
Write Native File Formats
Compression is not supported for outputs in
Trifacta Wrangler.
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