It seems the next version of the docs already has an example
https://hop.apache.org/manual/next/metadata-types/azure-authentication.html
On 8 Apr 2025 at 15:37 +0200, Hans Van Akelyen <hans.van.akel...@gmail.com>,
wrote:
> Good idea, I created a PR [1]
>
> Cheeers,
> Hans
>
>
> [1] https://github.com/apache/hop/pull/5140
> On 8 Apr 2025 at 15:09 +0200, Gabriel Grohmann
> <gabriel.grohm...@linkfish.eu>, wrote:
> > Alright, that works. Didn't consider that option 🙂
> >
> > Maybe add that example to the documentation for the next person, that
> > doesn't see the forest for the trees?
> >
> > Cheers
> > Gabriel
> >
> >
> > Von: Hans Van Akelyen <hans.van.akel...@gmail.com>
> > Gesendet: Dienstag, 8. April 2025 15:00
> > An: users@hop.apache.org <users@hop.apache.org>; users@hop.apache.org
> > <users@hop.apache.org>
> > Betreff: Re: Azure VFS and metadata: correct usage
> >
> > The name you give to your new metadata type will be the prefix.
> >
> > so let's say you created a metadata object name myAzure it will be
> > myAzure://[containername]
> >
> > Hope this helps
> > On 8 Apr 2025 at 14:39 +0200, Gabriel Grohmann
> > <gabriel.grohm...@linkfish.eu>, wrote:
> > > Hey there,
> > >
> > > I want to connect to an azure blob storage through the (new) metadata
> > > alternative, but haven't had any luck yet.
> > >
> > > So far I managed to use the general account settings, which are stored
> > > within the hop-config.json. However, I didn't figure out yet how to make
> > > use of the Azure Authentication which is stored under metadata. If I use
> > > azure://[containername] or [metadataname] in the text file input, hop
> > > will still revert to the global data or returns an error. The only hint I
> > > got from the documentation is "this will be used in file paths name://".
> > > But no clue, how or where this would be used in particular. Obviously
> > > using name://[metadata name] in the path field of a text input doesn't
> > > work.
> > >
> > > Thanks for your assistance.
> > >
> > > Cheers
> > > Gabriel
> > >
> > > hop documentation:
> > > https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/metadata-types/azure-authentication.html
> > > https://hop.apache.org/manual/latest/vfs/azure-blob-storage-vfs.html
> > >
> > >
