Advanced Options for SDG

The SDG is a command-line application that must be run from either the Windows Command Prompt or Windows PowerShell.

Full Command Line Arguments

Below is a list of currently available command line arguments for the SDG. You can get a list of arguments available to the application by running with the /? switch.

Run in Powershell

EdFi.SDG.vXX.exe /?

Argument	Description	Required	Default
-c / -configXmlPath	Provides the path to the XML configuration file for this run.	Yes	(none)
-d / -dataFilePath	Provides the path to the input CSV data files.	No	.\DataFiles\
-m / -outputMode	One of {"Standard", "Seed"}. See further documentation about Seed Data.	No	Standard
-o / -outputPath	Path where output files should be saved. Note: this folder must already exist.	No	.\ (i.e. Current Directory)
-s / -seedFilePath	Path to an input or output seed file. Used for running in seed output mode. See further documentation about Seed Data.	No	(none)
-w / -allowOverwrite	If provided, files in the outputPath can be overwritten with newly generated data.	No	false

For example, a typical run of the SDG looks like this:

EdFi.SDG.vXX.exe -c C:\Ed-Fi\Samples\vXX\SampleDataGenerator\SampleConfig.xml -d C:\Ed-Fi\Samples\vXX\SampleDataGenerator\DataFiles\ -o C:\Temp\SDG\Output\

Outputting seed data:

EdFi.SDG.vXX.exe -c C:\Ed-Fi\Samples\vXX\SampleDataGenerator\SampleConfig.xml -d C:\Ed-Fi\Samples\vXX\SampleDataGenerator\DataFiles\ -o C:\Temp\SDG\Output\ -m Seed -s C:\Temp\SDG\SeedRecords.txt

Using seed data as input:

EdFi.SDG.vXX.exe -c C:\Ed-Fi\Samples\vXX\SampleDataGenerator\SampleConfig.xml -d C:\Ed-Fi\Samples\vXX\SampleDataGenerator\DataFiles\ -o C:\Temp\SDG\Output\ -s C:\Temp\SDG\SeedRecords.txt

Allowing output files to be overwritten (use with caution!):

EdFi.SDG.vXX.exe -c C:\Ed-Fi\Samples\vXX\SampleDataGenerator\SampleConfig.xml -d C:\Ed-Fi\Samples\vXX\SampleDataGenerator\DataFiles\ -o C:\Temp\SDG\Output\ -AllowOverwrite

Running EdFi.SampleDataGenerator.Console.exe

Please see instructions on Running the SDG.