[jira] [Commented] (METRON-1146) Add ability to parse JSON string into JSONObject for stellar

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ASF GitHub Bot commented on METRON-1146:
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Github user cestella commented on a diff in the pull request:

    https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/727#discussion_r136594535
  
    --- Diff: metron-stellar/stellar-common/src/main/java/org/apache/metron/stellar/dsl/functions/StringFunctions.java ---
    @@ -450,4 +454,40 @@ public Object apply(List<Object> strings) {
         }
       }
     
    +  @Stellar( name = "PARSE_JSON_STRING"
    +          , description = "Returns a JSON object for the specified JSON string"
    +          , params = {
    +            "str - the JSON String to convert, may be null"
    +          }
    +          , returns = "an Object containing the parsed JSON string"
    +  )
    +  public static class ParseJsonString extends BaseStellarFunction {
    +
    --- End diff --
    
    So, the usecase is having an enrichment which stores a JSON blob in HBase (or some other store) that you want to marshall into a Java object to interact with via stellar.  Some people would prefer to have their data in a readable format rather than serialized via kryo (like we do in the profiler) or restricted to a certain format (like we do in enrichments).  This opens up those use-cases.
    
    That JSON blob may be a map or a list or a primitive; the idea is to let jackson handle the parsing of it, so the bounds are what JSON can represent.  The knowledge of what is returned would be necessary for the caller, though, as you say.


> Add ability to parse JSON string into JSONObject for stellar
> ------------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: METRON-1146
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON-1146
>             Project: Metron
>          Issue Type: Bug
>            Reporter: Anand Subramanian
>            Assignee: Anand Subramanian
>
> Use jackson to parse a given JSON string and return a JSONObject on the stellar. For example:
> {code}
> MAP_GET( 'bar', PARSE_JSON_STRING(  '{ "foo" : 1, "bar" : 2}' )
> {code}
> would give the output 2



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