Missing plugins found while loading a transformation on Kettle

Question

I receive this error whenever I run my extraction from the command line, not in the Spoon UI.

Missing plugins found while loading a transformation

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Answer 1

Having the MongoDB plugin as a dependency only works for compilation. When PDI runs it looks for a plugins/ folder under the current directory, and will load all plugins from there. You can override the location by setting the KETTLE_PLUGIN_BASE_FOLDERS system property. Either way, you'll want a plugins/ folder and to unzip the MongoDB plugin package (not the JAR) into plugins/. That should put a folder called pentaho-mongodb-plugin under plugins/, and if PDI is pointing at that plugins/ folder, it should load and use the plugin successfully at runtime.