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ParameterDescriptionNoteData Types
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:

  • "m" to get "_doc.metadata", written into the variable "_metadata"
    • (for example this flag can be used to copy a subset of the fields from one fieldname to another, before using the "metadataFields" field in the "structuredAnalysis" object to delete the larger field)
  • "d" to get "_doc", written into the variable "_doc",
  • "t" to return the full text of the document into "text". 
    • If the "flags" field is not specified, this is returned by default. If the "flags" field is specified, then "t" must be included or the "text" variable is not populated.
  

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"):

  • 'H': will HTML-decode resulting fields. (Eg "&" -> "&")
  • '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. (Can also be done via the deprecated "groupNum":-1)
  • 'x': if the XPath expression points to an HTML (/XML) object, then the XML of the object is displayed with no decoding (eg stripping of fields)
  • 'D': described above 
  • 'c': if set then fields with the same name are chained together (otherwise they will all append their results to the field within metadata)
  
replace   
store   
index   

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Supported Script Languages

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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

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:

  • "m" to get "_doc.metadata", written into the variable "_metadata"
    • (for example this flag can be used to copy a subset of the fields from one fieldname to another, before using the "metadataFields" field in the "structuredAnalysis" object to delete the larger field)
  • "d" to get "_doc", written into the variable "_doc",
  • "t" to return the full text of the document into "text". 
    • If the "flags" field is not specified, this is returned by default. If the "flags" field is specified, then "t" must be included or the "text" variable is not populated.

 

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XML file

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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.

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Code Block
{
    "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"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

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Office Document

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In the following example, the contentMetadata block has been configured to specify a javascript that will create a metadata entity called "email_meta."  Email_meta will report some meta data values for the "office" email type.

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Code Block
 ],        "email_meta": [
            [
                {
                    "Creation-Date": [
                        "2001-07-09T18:33:32Z"
                    ],
                    "Message-To": [
                        "will.smith@enron.com"
                    ],
                    "Content-Type": [
                        "message/rfc822"
                    ],
                    "subject": [
                        "RE: Testing Preschedule workspace"
                    ],
                    "date": [
                        "2001-07-09T18:33:32Z"
                    ],
                    "Author": [
                        "cara.semperger@enron.com"
                    ],
                    "Message-From": [
                        "cara.semperger@enron.com"
                    ]

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Regex

IN PROGRESS

 

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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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