public void getFields(
     RowMetaInterface inputRowMeta,
     String name,
     RowMetaInterface[] info,
     StepMeta nextStep,
     VariableSpace space,
     Repository repository,
     IMetaStore metaStore)
     throws KettleStepException {
   // Set the sorted properties: ascending/descending
   for (int i = 0; i < fieldName.length; i++) {
     int idx = inputRowMeta.indexOfValue(fieldName[i]);
     if (idx >= 0) {
       ValueMetaInterface valueMeta = inputRowMeta.getValueMeta(idx);
       valueMeta.setSortedDescending(!ascending[i]);
       valueMeta.setCaseInsensitive(!caseSensitive[i]);
       valueMeta.setCollatorDisabled(!collatorEnabled[i]);
       valueMeta.setCollatorStrength(collatorStrength[i]);
       // Also see if lazy conversion is active on these key fields.
       // If so we want to automatically convert them to the normal storage type.
       // This will improve performance, see also: PDI-346
       //
       valueMeta.setStorageType(ValueMetaInterface.STORAGE_TYPE_NORMAL);
       valueMeta.setStorageMetadata(null);
     }
   }
 }
  public static ValueMetaInterface cloneValueMeta(ValueMetaInterface source, int targetType)
      throws KettlePluginException {
    ValueMetaInterface target = null;

    // If we're Cloneable and not changing types, call clone()
    if (source instanceof Cloneable && source.getType() == targetType) {
      target = source.clone();
    } else {
      target =
          createValueMeta(source.getName(), targetType, source.getLength(), source.getPrecision());
    }
    target.setConversionMask(source.getConversionMask());
    target.setDecimalSymbol(source.getDecimalSymbol());
    target.setGroupingSymbol(source.getGroupingSymbol());
    target.setStorageType(source.getStorageType());
    if (source.getStorageMetadata() != null) {
      target.setStorageMetadata(
          cloneValueMeta(source.getStorageMetadata(), source.getStorageMetadata().getType()));
    }
    target.setStringEncoding(source.getStringEncoding());
    target.setTrimType(source.getTrimType());
    target.setDateFormatLenient(source.isDateFormatLenient());
    target.setDateFormatLocale(source.getDateFormatLocale());
    target.setDateFormatTimeZone(source.getDateFormatTimeZone());
    target.setLenientStringToNumber(source.isLenientStringToNumber());
    target.setLargeTextField(source.isLargeTextField());
    target.setComments(source.getComments());
    target.setCaseInsensitive(source.isCaseInsensitive());
    target.setIndex(source.getIndex());

    target.setOrigin(source.getOrigin());

    target.setOriginalAutoIncrement(source.isOriginalAutoIncrement());
    target.setOriginalColumnType(source.getOriginalColumnType());
    target.setOriginalColumnTypeName(source.getOriginalColumnTypeName());
    target.setOriginalNullable(source.isOriginalNullable());
    target.setOriginalPrecision(source.getOriginalPrecision());
    target.setOriginalScale(source.getOriginalScale());
    target.setOriginalSigned(source.isOriginalSigned());

    return target;
  }