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How to fillnull json value pair in a subpath ?

emallinger
Communicator

Hello,

I'm faced today with something I do not understand.

Here the structure of my event (JSON structured) :

 

{
dateReponse: 1618309228736
dateRequete: 1618309228622
id: 4572d
reponse: {
dossier: [
{
$c: PERSONNE
$i: 1
$l: 1
dateCreation: 1477036197000
dateModification: 1495047526000
id: 1
}
{
$c: IDENTITE
$i: 2
$l: 1
dateCreation: 1477036197000
dateModification: 1513858108603
nom: NOM1
prenom: prenom1
}
{
$c: IDENTITE
$i: 3
$l: 1
dateCreation: 1479206837000
dateModification: 1513858108603
nom: NOM2
}
]
}
}

 

 

I'd like to fillnum the field reponse.dossier{}.prenom with "unknown" when not present.

The content keep being blank.

I tried adding mvexpand and spath (even if it's already json parsed), no luck.

| mvexpand reponse.dossier{}.nom
| spath input=reponse.dossier{}
| fillnull value="unkown" reponse.dossier{}.prenom

 

I've tried adding a complete new field after reponse.dossier{}.prenom in the fillnull command, it worked just fine for the new field. Still not for my reponse.dossier{}.prenom.

I think I missed something, somewhere.

Any suggestion ?

Thanks in advance,

Ema

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manjunathmeti
Champion

hi @emallinger,
You need to expand all the child dictionaries in the field dossier. Try this, here the field name will be prenom instead of reponse.dossier{}.prenom.

index=index spurcetype=sourcetype
| rex max_match=0 "(?<event>\{[^\{]+?\})" 
| mvexpand event 
| spath input=event 
| fillnull value="unkown" prenom

 

If this reply helps you, a like would be appreciated.

 

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emallinger
Communicator

Hi !

Thank you very much !

Now I just have to integrate this into my whole request, but it'll be fine .

Regards,

Ema

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manjunathmeti
Champion

hi @emallinger,
You need to expand all the child dictionaries in the field dossier. Try this, here the field name will be prenom instead of reponse.dossier{}.prenom.

index=index spurcetype=sourcetype
| rex max_match=0 "(?<event>\{[^\{]+?\})" 
| mvexpand event 
| spath input=event 
| fillnull value="unkown" prenom

 

If this reply helps you, a like would be appreciated.

 

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