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- UnstructuredAnalysis object (under "Meta object")
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Description
Legacy documentation:
- Unstructured Analysis - Overview (under "Specifying data as metadata", "Specifying metadata using javascript", "Using XPath to generate metadata")
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Examples
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Parameter | Description | Note | Data Types |
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fieldName | Any string, the key for generated array in "doc.metadata" | ||
scriptlang | |||
script | |||
flags | For javascript (defaults to "t" if none specified), "t" the script receives the doc fullText ("text"), "d" the script receives the entire doc (_doc), "m" the script receives the doc.metadata There are also a few flags that provide additional variables in the javascript:
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For xpath: "o": if the XPath expression points to an HTML (/XML) object, then this object is converted to JSON and stored as an object in the corresponding metadata field array. For reference, here is the complete set of flags for xpath (and regex, except for "O"):
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replace | |||
store | |||
index |
Using Script Languages to Generate Metadata
Javascript
For power users, metadata can be generated from the content using javascript. This gives a huge amount of flexibility to apply site/source-specific knowledge to pull out metadata that can be turned into entities or associations.
Info |
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If there are multiple "meta" objects with the same "fieldName", then they form a "pipeline", with each new object taking the old array, in the "_iterator" variable, and then overwriting the previous entry's result. There are also a few flags that provide additional variables in the javascript:
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In the following example, the "contentMetadata" block uses javascript to convert the xml file data into metadata. Normally "docMetadata"/"entities"/"associations" block would finally be used to set the per-document titles, descriptions, entities etc.
Code Block |
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{
"description": "wiy",
"isPublic": true,
"mediaType": "News",
"tags": [
"tag1"
],
"title": "aaa xml test",
"processingPipeline": [
{
"feed": {
"extraUrls": [
{
"url": "http://www.w3schools.com/xml/simple.xml"
}
],
"updateCycle_secs": 86400
}
},
{
"links": {
"extraMeta": [
{
"context": "First",
"fieldName": "convert_to_json",
"flags": "o",
"script": "//breakfast_menu/food[*]",
"scriptlang": "xpath"
}
],
"script": "function convert_to_docs(jsonarray, url)\n{\n var docs = [];\n for (var docIt in jsonarray) {\n var predoc = jsonarray[docIt];\n delete predoc.content;\n var doc = {};\n doc.url = _doc.url.replace(/[?].*/,\"\") + '#' + docIt;\n doc.fullText = predoc;\n doc.title = \"TBD\";\n doc.description = \"TBD\";\n docs.push(doc);\n }\n return docs;\n}\nvar docs = convert_to_docs(_doc.metadata['convert_to_json'], _doc.url);\ndocs;",
"scriptflags": "d"
}
},
{
"contentMetadata": [
{
"fieldName": "json",
"script": "var json = eval('('+text+')'); json;",
"scriptlang": "javascript"
}
]
}
]
} |
Regex
Xpath
Neither regex nor javascript are well suited for extracting fields from HTML and XML (particularly since the current Javascript engine, the Java version of Rhino, does not support DOM).
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