I’ve given my boss, who is our SnapLogic admin, information needed for an enhancement request. I am new to SnapLogic, so I hesitate to critique. I’d just say that every other ETL tool and every other usable scripting or coding language I’ve used implements loops. So it’s a shocker that SL doesn’t have this - or that you have to use nested pipelines. So I wholeheartedly encourage them to look into this.
It’s very useful to have a visual that implements a loop and shows you, nicely, what the exit condition is and what variables/fields are getting modified as one iterates. It’s possible to use recursion (pipelines). But given that we can’t click through to child pipelines or see easily what’s getting passed to them (setup of paramaters is very clicky, on both the parent and child ends) - given all this, a loop construct is really needed.
It’s also important to improve recursion and make those parameters more visible. Having to click around the parent, and the child, and having to manually ensure that everything matches, is really hard to do. And recursion is difficult for the citizen-integrators that SL targets. It’s a hard concept. If SL wants to make this easy, a simple loop will help - along with visibility improvements, as noted.
