I have an NSSearchField bound to an NSDictionaryController. In my search field's predicate format, I have a code like this key contains $value and what does it mean? What other alternatives are there for the predicate format (lines of code)? Thanks!
A quick search of the docs turns up this chapter in the Predicate Programming Guide:
Variables are denoted with a $ (for example $VARIABLE_NAME).
I don't see anywhere where it's explicitly mentioned, but the implication is that identifiers not prefixed by a $ are treated as keys—i.e., retrieved by Key-Value Coding. The predicate will match those objects from the dictionary controller whose value for key …
CONTAINS
The left-hand expression contains the right-hand expression.
… contains the value of $value.
So what's $value, then? The Cocoa Bindings Reference explains:
The multiple-value predicate binding allows you to create a search field pop-up menu that is pre populated with menu items that correspond to predicate filters. Each of the predicate bindings correspond to an entry in the search field pop-up menu. This multiple-value binding is used by the NSSearchField predicate binding.
The display name string is used as the menu item title. The predicate format is string that specifies the predicate for that menu item using the predicate format described in Predicate Programming Guide. Any occurrences of the string $value in the predicate format string are replaced with the contents of the search field.
In other words, an NSSearchField predefines the variable value for its predicates as holding whatever text is currently in the field—i.e., the text the user is searching for.
So, for example, if you create a predicate with the format name contains $value, and the user searches for “Emily”, that predicate will match those objects whose name contains (as a substring) the string “Emily”.
key stands for the Key of the dictionary and $value stands for the entered value in the NSSearchField.
For searching from more fields you can use || and && in the Predicate Format.
I somehow found out!
I for the predicate format, I just need to type
value contains $value
for it to work. Now I understand! Thank you all for your help!!!
foreach (var item in dictionary) {
cellValue.Text = item.Value.ToString();
}
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Im very new in NiFi..
I get data(FlowFile ?) from my processor "ConsumerKafka", it seems like
So, i have to delete any text before '!',I know a little Python. So with "ExcecuteScript", i want to do something like this
my_string=session.get()
my_string.split('!')[1]
#it return "ZPLR_CHDN_UPN_ECN....."
but how to do it right?
p.s. or, may be, use "substringAfterLast", but how?
Tnanks.
Update:
I have to remove text between '"Tagname":' and '!', how can i do it without regex?
If you simply want to split on a bang (!) and only keep the text after it, then you could achieve this with a SplitContent configured as:
Byte Sequence Format: Text
Byte Sequence: !
Keep Byte Sequence: false
Follow this with a RouteOnAttribute configured as:
Routing Strategy: Route to Property name
Add a new dynamic property called "substring_after" with a value: ${fragment.index:equals(2)}
For your input, this will produce 2 FlowFiles - one with the substring before ! and one with the substring after !. The first FlowFile (substring before) will route out of the RouteOnAttribute to the unmatched relationship, while the second FlowFile (substring after) will route to a substring_after relationship. You can auto-terminate the unmatched relationship to drop the text you don't want.
There are downsides to this approach though.
Are you guaranteed that there is only ever a single ! in the content? How would you handle multiple?
You are doing a substring on some JSON as raw text. Splitting on ! will result in a "} left at the end of the string.
These look like log entries, you may want to consider looking into ConsumeKafkaRecord and utilising NiFi's Record capabilities to interpret and manipulate the data more intelligently.
On scripting, there are some great cookbooks for learning to script in NiFi, start here: https://community.cloudera.com/t5/Community-Articles/ExecuteScript-Cookbook-part-1/ta-p/248922
Edit:
Given your update, I would use UpdateRecord with a JSON Reader and Writer, and Replacement Value Strategy set to Record Path Value .
This uses the RecordPath syntax to perform transformations on data within Records. Your JSON Object is a Record. This would allow you to have multiple Records within the same FlowFile (rather than 1 line per FlowFile).
Then, add a dynamic property to the UpdateRecord with:
Name: /Tagname
Value: substringAfter(/Tagname, '!' )
What is this doing?
The Name of the property (/Tagname) is a RecordPath to the Tagname key in your JSON. This tells UpdateRecord where to put the result. In your case, we're replacing the value of an existing key (but it could be also be a new key if you wanted to add one).
The Value of the property is the expression to evaluate to build the value you want to insert. We are using the substringAfter function, which takes 2 parameters. The first parameter is the RecordPath to the Key in the Record that contains the input String, which is also /Tagname (we're replacing the value of Tagname, with a substring of the original Tagname value). The second parameter is the String to split on, which is !.
If your purpose getting the string between ! and "} use ReplaceText with (.*)!(.*)"} , capture second group and replace it with entire content
Please note that this regular expression may not be best for your case but I believe you can find solution for your problem with regular expression
I'm looking to construct a predicate which checks if a list of strings in CloudKit contains any element in an array of strings. I know I can check if a string is in a list in CloudKit by using the CONTAINS predicate, and I also know I can check if a string field is in an array using the IN predicate, however due to using an array/list of strings on both sides of the predicate I need form a CONTAINS IN predicate. anyone know how?
Use ANY array IN otherArray within the predicate
I'm trying to search for all Observations where "blood" is associated with the code using:
GET [base]/Observation?code:text=blood
It appears that the search is matching Observations where the associated text starts with "blood" but not matching on associated text that contains "blood".
Using the following, I get results with a Coding.display of "Systolic blood pressure" but I'd like to also get these Observations by searching using the text "blood".
GET [base]/Observation?code:text=sys
Is there a different modifier I should be using or wildcards I should use?
The servers seem to do as the spec requests: when using the modifier :text on a token search parameter (like code here), the spec says:
":text The search parameter is processed as a string that searches
text associated with the code/value"
If we look at how a server is supposed to search a string, we find:
"By default, a field matches a string query if the value of the field
equals or starts with the supplied parameter value, after both have
been normalized by case and accent."
Now, if code would have been a true string search parameter, we could have applied the modifier contains, however we cannot stack modifiers, so in this case code:text:containts would may logical, but is not part of the current specification.
So, I am afraid that there is currently no "standard" way to do what you want.
I have an XML document that contains items with dashes I'd like to strip
e.g.
<xmlDoc>
<items>
<item>a-b-c</item>
<item>c-d-e</item>
<items>
</xmlDoc>
I know I can find-replace a single item using this xpath
/xmldoc/items/item[1]/translate(text(),'-','')
Which will return
"abc"
however, how do I do this for the entire set?
This doesn't work
/xmldoc/items/item/translate(text(),'-','')
Nor this
translate(/xmldoc/items/item/text(),'-','')
Is there a way at all to achieve that?
I know I can find-replace a single
item using this xpath
/xmldoc/items/item[1]/translate(text(),'-','')
Which will return
"abc"
however, how do I do this for the
entire set?
This cannot be done with a single XPath 1.0 expression.
Use the following XPath 2.0 expression to produce a sequence of strings, each being the result of the application of the translate() function on the string value of the corresponding node:
/xmlDoc/items/item/translate(.,'-', '')
The translate function accepts in input a string and not a node-set. This means that writing something like:
"translate(/xmlDoc/items/item/text(),'-','')"
or
"translate(/xmlDoc/items/item,'-','')"
will result in a function call on the first node only (item[1]).
In XPath 1.0 I think you have no other chances than doing something ugly like:
"concat(translate(/xmlDoc/items/item,'-',''),
translate(/xmlDoc/items/item[2],'-',''))"
Which is privative for a huge list of items and returns just a string.
In XPath 2.0 this can be solved nicely using for expressions:
"for $item in /xmlDoc/items/item
return replace($item,'-','')"
Which returns a sequence type:
abc cde
PS Do no confuse function calls with location paths. They are different kind of expressions, and in XPath 1.0 can not be mixed.
here is yet anther example, running it against chrome developer tools, in prepartion for a selenium test.
$x("//table[#id='sometable_table']//tr[1=1 and ./td[2=2 and position()=2 and .//*[translate(text(), ',', '') ='1001'] ] ]/td[position()=2]")
Essentially the the data sometable_table has a column containing numbers that appear localized. For example 1001 would appear as 1,001. With the above you have somewhat nasty xpath expression.
Where first you select all table rows. Then you focus on the data of the position 2 table data for the row. Then you go deeper into the contents of the position=2 table data expand the data on the cell until you find any node whose text after string replacement is 1001. Finally you ask for the table at position 2 to be returned.
But since all your main filters are at the table row level, you could be doing additional filters at table data columns at other positions as well, if you need to find the appropriate table row that has content (A) on a cell column and content (B) on a different column.
NOTE:
It was actually quite nasty to write this, because intuitively, we all google for XPATH replace string. So I was getting furstrated trying to use xpath replace until i realized chrome supports XPATH 1.0. In xpath 1.0 the string functions that exist are different from xpath 2.0, you need to use this translate function.
See reference:
http://www.edankert.com/xpathfunctions.html
<bits>
<thing>Match this please</thing>
<thing>Don't match this</thing>
<thing>Match <b>this</b> please</thing>
</bits>
An expression like this:
//thing[text()='Match this please']
will locate the first 'thing' but not the third, because the phrase is distributed through a child node.
Is there an expression that would match the first and the third 'thing' in my example?
Try:
//thing[string()='Match this please']
jsfiddle:
http://jsfiddle.net/ZG9n3/2/
Please check the reference to see if this is going to work for you:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath/#function-string
Is there an expression that would
match the first and the third 'thing'
in my example?
You mean: Is there an expression that would select the first and the third element named thing, based on their string value.
Use:
/*/thing[. = 'Match this please']
The predicate compares the string value of the context node to the string "Match this please".
By definition the string value of an element is the concatenation (in document order) of all of its text-nodes descendents.
Note: Always try to avoid the // abbreviation because its use may incur big inefficiency. Whenever the structure of an XML document is known, use a chain of specific location steps.