# resource

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title: resource
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docname: connect/components/processors/resource
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---

<!-- Source: https://docs.redpanda.com/cloud-data-platform/develop/connect/components/processors/resource.md -->

**Type:** Processor ▼

[Processor](https://docs.redpanda.com/cloud-data-platform/develop/connect/components/processors/resource/)[Input](https://docs.redpanda.com/cloud-data-platform/develop/connect/components/inputs/resource/)[Output](https://docs.redpanda.com/cloud-data-platform/develop/connect/components/outputs/resource/)

**Available in:** Cloud, [Self-Managed](https://docs.redpanda.com/connect/components/processors/resource/%20%22View%20the%20Self-Managed%20version%20of%20this%20component%22)

Resource is a processor type that runs a processor resource identified by its label.

```yml
# Config fields, showing default values
resource: ""
```

This processor allows you to reference the same configured processor resource in multiple places, and can also tidy up large nested configs. For example, the config:

```yaml
pipeline:
  processors:
    - mapping: |
        root.message = this
        root.meta.link_count = this.links.length()
        root.user.age = this.user.age.number()
```

Is equivalent to:

```yaml
pipeline:
  processors:
    - resource: foo_proc

processor_resources:
  - label: foo_proc
    mapping: |
      root.message = this
      root.meta.link_count = this.links.length()
      root.user.age = this.user.age.number()
```