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

Step : Mo         


        

Answer 1

Just edit spoon.sh and add

OPT="$OPT -DKETTLE_PLUGIN_BASE_FOLDERS=$BASEDIR/plugins"

right after the line where the OPT variable is set.

This is actually the solution from mattyb. Editing spoon.sh will fix the problem for good.

Another solution is to create a symbolic link in your ${KETTLE_HOME}/.kettle directory which points to the plugins folder.

Answer 2

before init kettleEnviroment

KettleEnviroment.init();

you should add this code like

StepPluginType.getInstance().getPluginFolders().add(new PluginFolder("your plugins path", false, true));

Answer 3

You must run Kitchen from Kettle installation directory.
As written here: http://wiki.pentaho.com/display/EAI/Kitchen+User+Documentation

Please make sure that you are positioned in the Kettle directory before running the samples below. If you put these scripts into a batch file or shell script, simply do a change directory to the installation directory

Answer 4

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.