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ASF GitHub Bot commented on METRON-1643: ---------------------------------------- Github user cestella commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/1083#discussion_r200675612 --- Diff: metron-platform/metron-parsers/README.md --- @@ -337,6 +337,28 @@ The following config will rename the fields `old_field` and `different_old_field ] } ``` +* `REGEX_SELECT` : This transformation lets users set an output field to one of a set of possibilities based on matching regexes. This transformation is useful when the number or conditions are large enough to make a stellar language match statement unwieldy. + +The following config will set the field `my_output` to one of the +following, dependent upon the value of the `my_input` field: +* `awesome` if `my_input` starts with `metron` or `mortron` +* `boo` if `my_input` starts with `scary` +``` +{ +... + "fieldTransformations" : [ + { + "transformation" : "REGEX_SELECT" + , "input" : "my_input" + , "output" : "my_output" + , "config" : { + "awesome" : [ "^metron.*", "^mortron.*" ], --- End diff -- I changed the parsers docs to reflect the use-case that I wrote up for the next PR. That should fold in well together and be a real use-case. Thanks for the feedback. > Create a REGEX_ROUTING field transformation > ------------------------------------------- > > Key: METRON-1643 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON-1643 > Project: Metron > Issue Type: Improvement > Reporter: Casey Stella > Priority: Major > > A relatively common pattern is to choose the value of a field based on if > another field matches a set of regexes. This can be done via stellar with > match, but if the list of possible regexes are large, that can be unwieldy. > To ease that burden, we should have a REGEX_ROUTING field transformation. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)