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multiple case statement not working

samneo
Path Finder

Im working with JSON data and the structure is as per the below

 

data: { [-]
     application: { [+]
     }
     completedAt: 1636133794444
     environments: [ [-]
       { [-]
         id: XNu1-l8oROOOSM5gpoSR0g
       }
       { [-]
         id: _LY0B7VpRq64tHXq7Uy55A
       }
       { [-]
         id: 7KbvgSBMSUSUyAn2hMXSQA
       }
       { [-]
         id: dJ7EuItjSG2M47-zvIvimQ
       }
     ]

 

Now when i use a case function for this like the below:

|eval env = case('data.environments{}.id'=="7KbvgSBMSUSUyAn2hMXSQA", "prd-au", 'data.environments{}.id'=="_LY0B7VpRq64tHXq7Uy55A", "prd-gb")

It only ever brings me back 1 result and thats whatever is placed first in the case function so the above returns prd-au and if i swap the values around then it will return prd-gb. I presume this is something to do with how the JSON data is working with splunk causing it to error out but unsure how to resolve?

any ideas? 

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You would need to expand the event into multiple events, try something like this

| mvexapnd 'data.environments{}.id'

 

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samneo
Path Finder

thanks @ITWhisperer is there a way round this so i can get all values?

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

You would need to expand the event into multiple events, try something like this

| mvexapnd 'data.environments{}.id'

 

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ITWhisperer
SplunkTrust
SplunkTrust

Splunk is working with a pipeline of events - the events in the pipeline include multivalue fields such as data.environments{}.id - the eval case finds a match among the multivalues for the first test hence you get the results you are getting

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