Nest
The Nest Filter plugin allows you to operate on or with nested data. Its modes of operation are
nest
- Take a set of records and place them in a maplift
- Take a map by key and lift its records up
Example usage (nest)
As an example using JSON notation, to nest keys matching the Wildcard
value Key*
under a new key NestKey
the transformation becomes,
Example (input)
Example (output)
Example usage (lift)
As an example using JSON notation, to lift keys nested under the Nested_under
value NestKey*
the transformation becomes,
Example (input)
Example (output)
Configuration Parameters
The plugin supports the following configuration parameters:
Key | Value Format | Operation | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Operation | ENUM [ | Select the operation | |
Wildcard | FIELD WILDCARD |
| Nest records which field matches the wildcard |
Nest_under | FIELD STRING |
| Nest records matching the |
Nested_under | FIELD STRING |
| Lift records nested under the |
Add_prefix | FIELD STRING | ANY | Prefix affected keys with this string |
Remove_prefix | FIELD STRING | ANY | Remove prefix from affected keys if it matches this string |
Getting Started
In order to start filtering records, you can run the filter from the command line or through the configuration file. The following invokes the Memory Usage Input Plugin, which outputs the following (example),
Example #1 - nest
Command Line
Note: Using the command line mode requires quotes parse the wildcard properly. The use of a configuration file is recommended.
The following command will load the mem plugin. Then the nest filter will match the wildcard rule to the keys and nest the keys matching Mem.*
under the new key NEST
.
Configuration File
Result
The output of both the command line and configuration invocations should be identical and result in the following output.
Example #2 - nest and lift undo
This example nests all Mem.*
and Swap,*
items under the Stats
key and then reverses these actions with a lift
operation. The output appears unchanged.
Configuration File
Result
Example #3 - nest 3 levels deep
This example takes the keys starting with Mem.*
and nests them under LAYER1
, which itself is then nested under LAYER2
, which is nested under LAYER3
.
Configuration File
Result
Example #4 - multiple nest and lift filters with prefix
This example starts with the 3-level deep nesting of Example 2 and applies the lift
filter three times to reverse the operations. The end result is that all records are at the top level, without nesting, again. One prefix is added for each level that is lifted.
Configuration file
Result
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