9.18. Transformation Function Usage

9.18.1. Control Functions

9.18.1.1. try

Description: Execute another function - if it fails, instead use a default value

Usage: try($1, $2)

Example: try("1"::int, 0) = 1

Example: try("abcd"::int, 0) = 0

9.18.1.2. withDefault

Description: Replace a value with a default, if the value is null

Usage: withDefault($1, $2)

Example: withDefault('foo', 'bar') = foo

Example: withDefault(null, 'bar') = bar

9.18.1.3. require

Description: Throw an exception if the value is null, otherwise return the value

Usage: require($1)

Example: require('foo') = foo

Example: require(null) // throws an error

9.18.2. String Functions

9.18.2.1. strip

Description: Removes characters from the start or end of a string. Defaults to whitespace.

Usage: strip($1) or strip($1, $chars)

Examples: strip('afoob', 'abc') = foo strip('foao', 'abc') = foao strip('\t foo ') = foo

9.18.2.2. stripQuotes

Description: Remove double or single quotes from a the start or end of a string

Usage: stripQuotes($1)

Examples: stripQuotes('"foo"') = foo stripQuotes('\'foo\'') = foo stripQuotes('fo"o') = fo"o

9.18.2.3. stripPrefix

Description: Removes characters from the start of a string. Whitespace is preserved.

Usage: stripPrefix($1, $chars)

Examples: stripPrefix('afoob', 'abc') = foob

9.18.2.4. stripSuffix

Description: Removes characters from the end of a string. Whitespace is preserved.

Usage: stripSuffix($1, $chars)

Examples: stripSuffix('afoob', 'abc') = afoo

9.18.2.5. remove

Description: Removes a substring from a string

Usage: remove($1, $substring)

Examples: remove('foabco', 'abc') = foo

9.18.2.6. replace

Description: Replaces a literal string with another string

Usage: replace($1, $toReplace, $replacement)

Examples: replace('foobar', 'ob', 'ab') = foabar

9.18.2.7. length

Description: Returns the length of a string.

Usage: length($1)

Example: length('foo') = 3

9.18.2.8. trim

Description: Trim whitespace from around a string.

Usage: trim($1)

Example: trim('  foo ') = foo

9.18.2.9. capitalize

Description: Capitalize a string.

Usage: capitalize($1)

Example: capitalize('foo') = Foo

9.18.2.10. lowercase

Description: Lowercase a string.

Usage: lowercase($1)

Example: lowercase('FOO') = foo

9.18.2.11. uppercase

Description: Uppercase a string.

Usage: uppercase($1)

Example: uppercase('foo') = FOO

9.18.2.12. regexReplace

Description: Replace a given pattern with a target pattern in a string.

Usage: regexReplace($regex, $replacement, $1)

Example: regexReplace('foo'::r, 'bar', 'foobar') = barbar

9.18.2.13. concatenate

Description: Concatenate two strings.

Usage: concatenate($0, $1)

Example: concatenate('foo', 'bar') = foobar

9.18.2.14. substring

Description: Return the substring of a string.

Usage: substring($1, $startIndex, $endIndex)

Example: substring('foobarbaz', 2, 5) = oba

9.18.2.15. toString

Description: Convert another data type to a string.

Usage: toString($0)

Example: concatenate(toString(5), toString(6)) = '56'

9.18.2.16. emptyToNull

Description: Replace an empty string with null. Useful for setting optional attributes from delimited text files, where inputs will never be null.

Usage: emptyToNull($0)

Example: emptyToNull('') = null

9.18.2.17. printf

Description: Format custom strings. As an implementation detail, this function delegates to Java’s String formatting classes.

Usage: printf('patterns', $arg1, $arg2, ...)'

Examples: printf('%s-%s-%sT00:00:00.000Z', '2015', '01', '01') = '2015-01-01T00:00:00.000Z'
printf('%2f', divide(-1, 2, 3)) = '-0.17'

9.18.3. Date Functions

The following table summarizes the predefined date formats by name. For dates that don’t match any of these formats, a custom format can be used with the date function. secsToDate and millisToDate can be used for parsing intervals since the Java epoch. See below for full descriptions of each function.

Function Format Example
basicIsoDate yyyyMMdd 20150101
isoDate yyyy-MM-dd 2015-01-01
isoLocalDate yyyy-MM-dd 2015-01-01
basicDateTimeNoMillis yyyyMMdd'T'HHmmssZ 20150101T000000Z
basicDateTime yyyyMMdd'T'HHmmss.SSSZ 20150101T000000.000Z
isoDateTime yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss 2015-01-01T00:00:00
isoLocalDateTime yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss 2015-01-01T00:00:00
isoOffsetDateTime yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z
dateHourMinuteSecondMillis yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS 2015-01-01T00:00:00.000
dateTime yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZ 2015-01-01T00:00:00.000Z

9.18.3.1. now

Description: Use the current system time.

Usage: now()

9.18.3.2. date

Description: Custom date parser. The date format is defined by the Java 8 DateTimeFormatter class.

Usage: date($format, $1)

Example: date('yyyy-MM-dd\\'T\\'HH:mm:ss.SSSSSS', '2015-01-01T00:00:00.000000')

9.18.3.3. basicIsoDate

Description: A date format for yyyyMMdd, equivalent to java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.BASIC_ISO_DATE.

Usage: basicIsoDate($1)

Example: basicIsoDate('20150101')

9.18.3.4. isoDate

Description: A date format for yyyy-MM-dd, equivalent to java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.ISO_DATE.

Usage: isoDate($1)

Example: isoDate('2015-01-01')

9.18.3.5. basicDateTime

Description: A date format that combines a basic date and time for yyyyMMdd'T'HHmmss.SSSZ.

Usage: basicDateTime($1)

Example: basicDateTime('20150101T000000.000Z')

9.18.3.6. basicDateTimeNoMillis

Description: A basic format that combines a basic date and time with no millis for format yyyyMMdd'T'HHmmssZ.

Usage: basicDateTimeNoMillis($1)

Example: basicDateTimeNoMillis('20150101T000000Z')

9.18.3.7. dateTime

Description: A strict ISO 8601 Date parser for format yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSZZ.

Usage: dateTime($1)

Example: dateTime('2015-01-01T00:00:00.000Z')

9.18.3.8. dateHourMinuteSecondMillis

Description: Formatter for full date, and time keeping the first 3 fractional seconds for format yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSS.

Usage: dateHourMinuteSecondMillis($1)

Example: dateHourMinuteSecondMillis('2015-01-01T00:00:00.000')

9.18.3.9. isoDateTime

Description: A date format for yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss, equivalent to java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.ISO_DATE_TIME.

Usage: isoDateTime($1)

Example: isoDateTime('2015-01-01T00:00:00')

9.18.3.10. isoLocalDate

Description: A date format for yyyy-MM-dd, equivalent to java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_DATE.

Usage: isoLocalDate($1)

Example: isoLocalDate('2015-01-01')

9.18.3.11. isoLocalDateTime

Description: A date format for yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss, equivalent to java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.ISO_LOCAL_DATE_TIME.

Usage: isoLocalDateTime($1)

Example: isoLocalDateTime('2015-01-01T00:00:00')

9.18.3.12. isoOffsetDateTime

Description: A date format for yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ssZ, equivalent to java.time.format.DateTimeFormatter.ISO_OFFSET_DATE_TIME.

Usage: isoOffsetDateTime($1)

Example: isoOffsetDateTime('2015-01-01T00:00:00Z')

9.18.3.13. millisToDate

Description: Create a new date from a long representing milliseconds since January 1, 1970.

Usage: millisToDate($1)

Example: millisToDate('1449675054462'::long)

9.18.3.14. secsToDate

Description: Create a new date from a long representing seconds since January 1, 1970.

Usage: secsToDate($1)

Example: secsToDate(1449675054)

9.18.3.15. dateToString

Description: Formats a date as a string, based on a pattern as defined by Java’s DateTimeFormatter.

Usage: dateToString($pattern, $date)

Example: dateToString('yyyy-MM-dd\\'T\\'HH:mm:ss.SSSSSS', now())

9.18.3.16. dateToMillis

Description: Converts a date to milliseconds since the Java epoch (January 1, 1970).

Usage: dateToMillis($date)

Example: dateToMillis(now())

9.18.4. Geometry Functions

9.18.4.1. point

Description: Parse a Point geometry from lon/lat, WKT or WKB.

Usage: point($lon, $lat) or point($wkt)

Note: Ordering is important here…GeoMesa defaults to longitude first

Example: Parsing lon/lat from JSON:

Parsing lon/lat

# config
{ name = "lon", json-type="double", path="$.lon" }
{ name = "lat", json-type="double", path="$.lat" }
{ name = "geom", transform="point($lon, $lat)" }

# data
{
    "lat": 23.9,
    "lon": 24.2,
}

Example: Parsing lon/lat from text without creating lon/lat fields:

# config
{ name = "geom", transform="point($2::double, $3::double)" }

# data
id,lat,lon,date
identity1,23.9,24.2,2015-02-03

Example: Parsing WKT as a point

# config
{ name = "geom", transform="point($2)" }

# data
ID,wkt,date
1,POINT(2 3),2015-01-02

9.18.4.2. multipoint

Description: Parse a multi-point from a WKT string or WKB byte array.

Usage: multipoint($0)

Example: multipoint('MULTIPOINT ((10 40), (40 30), (20 20), (30 10))')

9.18.4.3. linestring

Description: Parse a linestring from a WKT string or WKB byte array.

Usage: linestring($0)

Example: linestring('LINESTRING(102 0, 103 1, 104 0, 105 1)')

9.18.4.4. multilinestring

Description: Parse a multi-linestring from a WKT string or WKB byte array.

Usage: multilinestring($0)

Example: multilinestring('MULTILINESTRING ((10 10, 20 20, 10 40), (40 40, 30 30, 40 20, 30 10))')

9.18.4.5. polygon

Description: Parse a polygon from a WKT string or WKB byte array.

Usage: polygon($0)

Example: polygon('POLYGON ((30 10, 40 40, 20 40, 10 20, 30 10))')

9.18.4.6. multipolygon

Description: Parse a multi-polygon from a WKT string or WKB byte array.

Usage: multipolygon($0)

Example: multipolygon('MULTIPOLYGON (((30 20, 45 40, 10 40, 30 20)), ((15 5, 40 10, 10 20, 5 10, 15 5)))')

9.18.4.7. geometrycollection

Description: Parse a geometry collection from a WKT string or WKB byte array.

Usage: geometrycollection($0)

Example: geometrycollection('GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(POINT(4 6),LINESTRING(4 6,7 10))')

9.18.4.8. geometry

Description: Parse a geometry from a WKT string or WKB byte array.

Usage: geometry($0)

Example: Parsing WKT as a geometry

# config
{ name = "geom", transform="geometry($2)" }

# data
ID,wkt,date
1,POINT(2 3),2015-01-02
2,"LINESTRING(102 0, 103 1, 104 0, 105 1)",2015-01-03

9.18.4.9. projectFrom

Description: Project a geometry from its native CRS to EPSG:4326. GeoMesa only supports EPSG:4326, so geometries must be transformed when ingesting from another CRS.

Usage: projectFrom('EPSG:3857',$0)

Example: Reprojecting a parsed point from EPSG:3857 to EPSG:4326:

# config
{ name = "geom", transform="projectFrom('EPSG:3857',point($2::double, $3::double))" }

# data
id,x,y,date
identity1,1689200.14,1113194.91,2015-02-03

9.18.5. ID Functions

9.18.5.1. stringToBytes

Description: Converts a string to a UTF-8 byte array (to pass to md5() or base64()).

Usage: stringToBytes($0)

Example: stringToBytes('row,of,data')

9.18.5.2. md5

Description: Creates an MD5 hash from a byte array.

Usage: md5($0)

Example: md5(stringToBytes('row,of,data'))

9.18.5.3. murmur3_32

Description: Creates a 32-bit murmur3 hash from a string.

Usage: murmur3_32($0)

Example: murmur3_32('row,of,data')

9.18.5.4. murmur3_128

Description: Creates a 128-bit murmur3 hash from a string. Note that previously this function was incorrectly named murmur3_64, and can still be invoked by that name.

Usage: murmur3_128($0)

Example: murmur3_128('row,of,data')

9.18.5.5. uuid

Description: Generates a random UUID.

Usage: uuid()

9.18.5.6. uuidZ3

Description: Generates a Z3-based UUID for point geometries.

Usage: uuidZ3($geom, $date, $interval)

Example: uuidZ3(point('POINT (3 2)'), dateTime('2015-01-01T00:00:00.000Z'), 'week')

See Configuring Z-Index Time Interval for details on Z3 intervals.

9.18.5.7. uuidZ3Centroid

Description: Generates a Z3-based UUID for non-point geometries.

Usage: uuidZ3Centroid($geom, $date, $interval)

Example: uuidZ3Centroid(linestring('LINESTRING(102 0, 103 1, 104 0, 105 1)', dateTime('2015-01-01T00:00:00.000Z'), 'week')

See Configuring Z-Index Time Interval for details on Z3 intervals.

9.18.5.8. base64

Description: Encodes a byte array as a base-64 string.

Usage; base64($0)

Example: base64(stringToBytes('foo'))

9.18.6. Type Conversions

9.18.6.1. ::int or ::integer

Description: Converts a string into an integer. Invalid values will cause the record to fail.

Example: '1'::int = 1

9.18.6.2. ::long

Description: Converts a string into a long. Invalid values will cause the record to fail.

Example: '1'::long = 1L

9.18.6.3. ::float

Description: Converts a string into a float. Invalid values will cause the record to fail.

Example: '1.0'::float = 1.0f

9.18.6.4. ::double

Description: Converts a string into a double. Invalid values will cause the record to fail.

Example: '1.0'::double = 1.0d

9.18.6.5. ::boolean

Description: Converts a string into a boolean. Invalid values will cause the record to fail.

Example: 'true'::boolean = true

9.18.6.6. ::r

Description: Converts a string into a Regex object.

Example: 'f.*'::r = f.*: scala.util.matching.Regex

9.18.6.7. stringToInt or stringToInteger

Description: Converts a string into a integer, with a default value if conversion fails.

Usage: stringToInt($1, $2)

Example: stringToInt('1', 0) = 1

Example: stringToInt('', 0) = 0

9.18.6.8. stringToLong

Description: Converts a string into a long, with a default value if conversion fails.

Usage: stringToLong($1, $2)

Example: stringToLong('1', 0L) = 1L

Example: stringToLong('', 0L) = 0L

9.18.6.9. stringToFloat

Description: Converts a string into a float, with a default value if conversion fails.

Usage: stringToFloat($1, $2)

Example: stringToFloat('1.0', 0.0f) = 1.0f

Example: stringToFloat('not a float', 0.0f) = 0.0f

9.18.6.10. stringToDouble

Description: Converts a string into a double, with a default value if conversion fails.

Usage: stringToDouble($1, $2)

Example: stringToDouble('1.0', 0.0) = 1.0d

Example: stringToDouble(null, 0.0) = 0.0d

9.18.6.11. stringToBoolean

Description: Converts a string into a boolean, with a default value if conversion fails.

Usage: stringToBoolean($1, $2)

Example: stringToBoolean('true', false) = true

Example: stringToBoolean('55', false) = false

9.18.6.12. intToBoolean

Description: Converts an int to boolean. Follows the normal rules of conversion, where 0 is false and all other ints are true.

Usage: intToBoolean($1)

Example: intToBoolean(1) = true

Example: intToBoolean(0) = false

9.18.7. Math Functions

Usage:

All math functions accept: Integers, Doubles, Floats, Longs and parsable Strings. All math functions return: Doubles. If another data type is needed, convert the value afterwards. e.g. add($1,$2)::long

Example:

{ name = "value3",   transform = "add($value1, multiply($value2, 1.2))::double" }

9.18.7.1. add

Description: Adds two or more values.

Example: add($1,$2)

Example: add($1,$2,"10")

9.18.7.2. subtract

Description: Subtracts two or more values.

Example: subtract($1,$2)

Example: subtract($1,$2,1.0f)

9.18.7.3. multiply

Description: Multiply two or more values.

Example: multiply($1,$2)

Example: multiply($1,$2,0.01d)

9.18.7.4. divide

Description: Divides two or more values sequentially.

Example: divide($1,$2)

Example: divide($1,$2,"15") is equivalent to ($1/$2)/"15"

9.18.7.5. mean

Description: Takes the mean (average) of two or more numbers.

Example: mean($1,$2,$3)

9.18.7.6. min

Description: Finds the minimum of two or more numbers.

Example: min($1,$2,$3)

9.18.7.7. max

Description: Finds the maximum of two or more numbers.

Example: max($1,$2,$3)

9.18.8. List and Map Functions

9.18.8.1. list

Description: Creates a list from the input arguments

Example: list(1,2,3)

9.18.8.2. mapValue

Description: Read a value out of a map instance by key

Example: mapValue($map,'key')

9.18.8.3. parseList

Description: Parse a List[T] type from a string.

If your SimpleFeatureType config contains a list or map you can easily configure a transform function to parse it using the parseList function which takes either 2 or 3 args

  1. The primitive type of the list (int, string, double, float, boolean, etc)
  2. The reference to parse
  3. Optionally, the list delimiter (defaults to a comma)

Here’s some sample CSV data:

ID,Name,Age,LastSeen,Friends,Lat,Lon
23623,Harry,20,2015-05-06,"Will, Mark, Suzan",-100.236523,23
26236,Hermione,25,2015-06-07,"Edward, Bill, Harry",40.232,-53.2356
3233,Severus,30,2015-10-23,"Tom, Riddle, Voldemort",3,-62.23

For example, an SFT may specific a field:

{ name = "friends", type = "List[String]" }

And a transform to parse the quoted CSV field:

{ name = "friends", transform = "parseList('string', $5)" }

9.18.8.4. parseMap

Description: Parse a Map[T,V] type from a string.

Parsing Maps is similar. Take for example this CSV data with a quoted map field:

1,"1->a,2->b,3->c,4->d",2013-07-17,-90.368732,35.3155
2,"5->e,6->f,7->g,8->h",2013-07-17,-70.970585,42.36211
3,"9->i,10->j",2013-07-17,-97.599004,30.50901

Our field type is:

numbers:Map[Integer,String]

Then we specify a transform:

{ name = "numbers", transform = "parseMap('int -> string', $2)" }

Optionally we can also provide custom list/record and key-value delimiters for a map:

{ name = "numbers", transform = "parseMap('int -> string', $2, '->', ',')" }

9.18.9. State Functions

9.18.9.1. inputFilePath

Description: provides the absolute path to the file being operated on, if available

Example: $inputFilePath

The file path is a variable, referenced through $ notation.

The file path may not always be available, depending on how the converter is being invoked. When invoked through the GeoMesa command-line tools or GeoMesa NiFi, it will be set appropriately.

9.18.9.2. lineNo

Description: provides the current line number in the file being operated on, if available

Example: lineNo()

The line number may not always be available, depending on the converter being used. For some converters, line number may be an abstract concept. For example, in the Avro converter line number will refer to the number of the Avro record in the file.

9.18.10. Enrichment Functions

9.18.10.1. cacheLookup

Description: Looks up a value from a cache

Usage: cacheLookup(<cacheName>, <entityKey>, <attributeKey>)

Example: cacheLookup('test', $id, 'name')