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title: Filter weight: 4603

Filter

This activity allows you to filter out data in a streaming pipeline, can also be used in flows.

Installation

Flogo CLI

flogo install github.com/TIBCOSoftware/flogo-contrib/activity/filter

Schema

Settings, Inputs and Outputs:

{
  "settings": [
    {
      "name": "type",
      "type": "string",
      "required": true,
      "allowed" : ["non-zero"]
    },
    {
      "name": "proceedOnlyOnEmit",
      "type": "boolean"
    }
  ],
  "input":[
    {
      "name": "value",
      "type": "any"
    }
  ],
  "output": [
    {
      "name": "filtered",
      "type": "boolean"
    },
    {
      "name": "value",
      "type": "any"
    }
  ]
}

Settings

Setting	Required	Description
type	True	The type of filter to apply [ex. non-zero]
proceedOnlyOnEmit	False	Indicates that the next activity should proceed, should always be set to false when used in a flow

Outputs

Value	Description
filtered	Indicates if the value was filtered out
value	The input value, it is 0 if it was filtered out

Example

The example below filters out all zero 'movement' readings

{
  "id": "filter1",
  "name": "Filter",
  "activity": {
    "ref": "github.com/TIBCOSoftware/flogo-contrib/activity/filter",
    "settings": {
      "type": "non-zero"
    },
    "mappings": {
      "input": [
        {
          "type": "assign",
          "value": "movement",
          "mapTo": "value"
        }
      ]
    }
  }
}