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ASF GitHub Bot commented on METRON-1568:
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Github user cestella commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/1021#discussion_r190011259
  
    --- Diff: 
metron-platform/metron-common/src/main/java/org/apache/metron/common/configuration/enrichment/handler/StellarConfig.java
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    @@ -142,8 +143,14 @@ else if(kv.getValue() instanceof List) {
       {
     
    --- End diff --
    
    So, what you're trying to solve, I think, is scoped variable resolution.  I 
think this is a bit of a different use-case here and one that doesn't really 
have an analogue in programming languages at large.  This is, rather, getting a 
list of the variables and their values within the current scope.  For our 
purposes, though, we only have one scope, global scope.  I'd consider 
non-global scope resolution to be out of scope for this.
    
    Ultimately, what I'm arguing for is the map variable resolver to have a 
special variable that returns the full variable scope. 
    
    Is this becoming clearer or am I spreading more mud than I'm clearing?


> Stellar should have a _ special variable which returns the message in map form
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: METRON-1568
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON-1568
>             Project: Metron
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>            Reporter: Casey Stella
>            Priority: Major
>
> In order to support functions which operate on the whole message, we should 
> have a special variable (_, keeping with the vaguely scala theme) which can 
> return the entire underlying message.  This map should be immutable.



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