SharpETL is a simple and flexible .NET library designed to aid in process of extract, transform and load of an unstructured data. It supports simple Python scripts to help with data extraction and manupulation.

The very basic and straightforward configuration with 3 actions.

1. Configure data source

ISource source1 = sourceFactory.CreateXlsSource(@"..\..\RandomData.xlsx", true);

2. Configure processing script

string scriptText = @"
def OnElement(action, element):
  print '---OnElement'
  yield element          # just push recieved element forward
def OnCompleted(action):
  print '===OnCompleted'
  yield
  return
";
IScript script1 = scriptFactory.CreatePythonScript("pythonScript1", scriptText);

3. Configure generator action

IAction action1 = actionFactory.CreateSourceAction("sourceAction1", source1);

4. Configure transform action

ISource source2 = sourceFactory.CreateNullSource("nullSource1");
IAction action2 = actionFactory.CreateScriptAction("scriptAction1", source2, script1);

5. Configure output action

IAction action3 = actionFactory.CreateBinarySerializeAction("binaryAction1", @"Data.bin");

6. Create processing engine

IEngine engine = engineFactory.Create(c => {
    c.UseDefaultServiceResolver();
    c.UseDefaultContextProvider();
    c.UseReactivePlanner();
    c.AddLink(action1, action2);
    c.AddLink(action2, action3);
});

7. Run it!

engine.Run();

• Windows service.

  It would be very useful to have a windows service application that could run a number of preconfigured IEngines.

• Visual configuration tool.

  UI is needed for creating and setting up configurations.
  It would greatly simplify process of setting up IEngine for non-programmers.

• Documentation.

  The project really lacks documentation and comments throughout the code.
  Some demo projects would be nice too.

• Tests.

  Project could use more tests.
  First of all tests of IAction derived classes.

• XML configuration.

  Add IConfigurationData<T> for most of actions.

• Fluent configuration.

  Add simplified fluent styled configuration.
  Should look like c.Fluently.FromXls().Debug().Join(...).ToBinary().

• Messaging.

  Add support for sending and recieving IElement objects as messages.
  Potential candidates include ZeroMQ, MassTransit.

• SQLite support.

  Due to missing freely available OleDB driver for SQLite support for accessing SQLite databases needs to be added manually.

• Internal logging.

  Better internal logging needed to help debug misbehaving configurations.

• Multithreading.

  As of now IEngine actions run in sequental single threaded mode because of debugging issues.
  Actions should be switched to multithreaded mode using .ObserveOn(Scheduler.NewThread) and tested under load.

• Planners.

  EnumerablePlanner needs attention. Right now it is in unusable state.
  Implement and experiment with planner based on Disruptor-net technology.
  Together with ZeroMQ messaging could result in extremely fast data processing.

• Code cleanup.

  All DataElement specific actions (SharpETL.Actions.Db) should be separated from SharpETL.Actions into a new project (SharpETL.DbActions).