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Time Extraction Filter [Deprecated]

⚠️ Note: Builtins for transformer are deprecated. An example in Go for time extraction filter can be found here.

A timeExtractionFilter built-in transformer implements both the eventTimeExtractor and filter built-in functions. It evaluates a message on a pipeline and if valid, extracts event time from the payload of the messsage.

filterExpr is used to evaluate and drop invalid messages.

eventTimeExpr is used to compile the payload to a string representation of the event time.

format is used to convert the event time in string format to a time.Time object.

Expression (required)

The expressions for the filter and event time extractor are implemented with expr and sprig libraries.

Data conversion functions

These function can be accessed directly in expression. payload keyword represents the message object. It will be the root element to represent the message object in expression.

  • json - Convert payload in JSON object. e.g: json(payload)
  • int - Convert element/payload into int value. e.g: int(json(payload).id)
  • string - Convert element/payload into string value. e.g: string(json(payload).amount)

Sprig functions

Sprig library has 70+ functions. sprig prefix need to be added to access the sprig functions.

sprig functions

E.g:

  • sprig.trim(string(json(payload).timestamp)) # Remove spaces from either side of the value of field timestamp

Format (optional)

Depending on whether a format is specified, the Event Time Extractor uses different approaches to convert the event time string to a time.Time object.

Time Extraction Filter Spec

spec:
  vertices:
    - name: in
      source:
        http: {}
        transformer:
          builtin:
            name: timeExtractionFilter
            kwargs:
              filterExpr: int(json(payload).id) < 100
              eventTimeExpr: json(payload).item[1].time
              eventTimeFormat: 2006-01-02T15:04:05Z07:00