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XSLT Functions

Custom XSLT functions available in Stroom.
Tags:

By including the following namespace:

xmlns:s="stroom"

E.g.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<xsl:stylesheet
    xmlns="event-logging:3"
    xmlns:s="stroom"
    xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
    xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    version="2.0">

The following functions are available to aid your translation:

  • bitmap-lookup(String map, String key) - Bitmap based look up against reference data map using the period start time
  • bitmap-lookup(String map, String key, String time) - Bitmap based look up against reference data map using a specified time, e.g. the event time
  • bitmap-lookup(String map, String key, String time, Boolean ignoreWarnings) - Bitmap based look up against reference data map using a specified time, e.g. the event time, and ignore any warnings generated by a failed lookup
  • bitmap-lookup(String map, String key, String time, Boolean ignoreWarnings, Boolean trace) - Bitmap based look up against reference data map using a specified time, e.g. the event time, and ignore any warnings generated by a failed lookup and get trace information for the path taken to resolve the lookup.
  • classification() - The classification of the feed for the data being processed
  • col-from() - The column in the input that the current record begins on (can be 0).
  • col-to() - The column in the input that the current record ends at.
  • current-time() - The current system time
  • current-user() - The current user logged into Stroom (only relevant for interactive use, e.g. search)
  • decode-url(String encodedUrl) - Decode the provided url.
  • dictionary(String name) - Loads the contents of the named dictionary for use within the translation
  • encode-url(String url) - Encode the provided url.
  • feed-attribute(String attributeKey) - NOTE: This function is deprecated, use meta(String key) instead. The value for the supplied feed attributeKey.
  • feed-name() - Name of the feed for the data being processed
  • fetch-json(String url) - Simplistic version of http-call that sends a request to the passed url and converts the JSON response body to XML using json-to-xml. Currently does not support SSL configuration like http-call does.
  • format-date(String date, String pattern) - Format a date that uses the specified pattern using the default time zone
  • format-date(String date, String pattern, String timeZone) - Format a date that uses the specified pattern with the specified time zone
  • format-date(String date, String patternIn, String timeZoneIn, String patternOut, String timeZoneOut) - Parse a date with the specified input pattern and time zone and format the output with the specified output pattern and time zone
  • format-date(String milliseconds) - Format a date that is specified as a number of milliseconds since a standard base time known as “the epoch”, namely January 1, 1970, 00:00:00 GMT
  • get(String key) - Returns the value associated with a key that has been stored in a map using the put() function. The map is in the scope of the current pipeline process so values do not live after the stream has been processed.
  • hash(String value) - Hash a string value using the default SHA-256 algorithm and no salt
  • hash(String value, String algorithm, String salt) - Hash a string value using the specified hashing algorithm and supplied salt value. Supported hashing algorithms include SHA-256, SHA-512, MD5.
  • hex-to-dec(String hex) - Convert hex to dec representation
  • hex-to-oct(String hex) - Convert hex to oct representation
  • host-address(String hostname) - Convert a hostname into an IP address.
  • host-name(String ipAddress) - Convert an IP address into a hostname.
  • http-call(String url, String headers, String mediaType, String data, String clientConfig) - Makes an HTTP(S) request to a remote server.
  • json-to-xml(String json) - Returns an XML representation of the supplied JSON value for use in XPath expressions
  • line-from() - The line in the input that the current record begins on (1 based).
  • line-to() - The line in the input that the current record ends at.
  • link(String url) - Creates a stroom dashboard table link.
  • link(String title, String url) - Creates a stroom dashboard table link.
  • link(String title, String url, String type) - Creates a stroom dashboard table link.
  • log(String severity, String message) - Logs a message to the processing log with the specified severity
  • lookup(String map, String key) - Look up a reference data map using the period start time
  • lookup(String map, String key, String time) - Look up a reference data map using a specified time, e.g. the event time
  • lookup(String map, String key, String time, Boolean ignoreWarnings) - Look up a reference data map using a specified time, e.g. the event time, and ignore any warnings generated by a failed lookup
  • lookup(String map, String key, String time, Boolean ignoreWarnings, Boolean trace) - Look up a reference data map using a specified time, e.g. the event time, ignore any warnings generated by a failed lookup and get trace information for the path taken to resolve the lookup.
  • meta(String key) - Lookup a meta data value for the current stream using the specified key. The key can be Feed, StreamType, CreatedTime, EffectiveTime, Pipeline or any other attribute supplied when the stream was sent to Stroom, e.g. meta(‘System’).
  • meta-keys() - Returns an array of meta keys for the current stream. Each key can then be used to retrieve its corresponding meta value, by calling meta($key).
  • numeric-ip(String ipAddress) - Convert an IP address to a numeric representation for range comparison
  • part-no() - The current part within a multi part aggregated input stream (AKA the substream number) (1 based)
  • parse-uri(String URI) - Returns an XML structure of the URI providing authority, fragment, host, path, port, query, scheme, schemeSpecificPart, and userInfo components if present.
  • pipeline-name() - Get the name of the pipeline currently processing the stream.
  • pointIsInsideXYPolygon(Number xPos, Number yPos, Number[] xPolyData, Number[] yPolyData) - Get the name of the pipeline currently processing the stream.
  • random() - Get a system generated random number between 0 and 1.
  • record-no() - The current record number within the current part (substream) (1 based).
  • search-id() - Get the id of the batch search when a pipeline is processing as part of a batch search
  • source() - Returns an XML structure with the stroom-meta namespace detailing the current source location.
  • source-id() - Get the id of the current input stream that is being processed
  • stream-id() - An alias for source-id included for backward compatibility.
  • pipeline-name() - Name of the current processing pipeline using the XSLT
  • put(String key, String value) - Store a value for use later on in the translation

bitmap-lookup()

The bitmap-lookup() function looks up a bitmap key from reference or context data a value (which can be an XML node set) for each set bit position and adds it to the resultant XML.

bitmap-lookup(String map, String key)
bitmap-lookup(String map, String key, String time)
bitmap-lookup(String map, String key, String time, Boolean ignoreWarnings)
bitmap-lookup(String map, String key, String time, Boolean ignoreWarnings, Boolean trace)
  • map - The name of the reference data map to perform the lookup against.
  • key - The bitmap value to lookup. This can either be represented as a decimal integer (e.g. 14) or as hexadecimal by prefixing with 0x (e.g 0xE).
  • time - Determines which set of reference data was effective at the requested time. If no reference data exists with an effective time before the requested time then the lookup will fail. Time is in the format yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXX, e.g. 2010-01-01T00:00:00.000Z.
  • ignoreWarnings - If true, any lookup failures will be ignored, else they will be reported as warnings.
  • trace - If true, additional trace information is output as INFO messages.

If the look up fails no result will be returned.

The key is a bitmap expressed as either a decimal integer or a hexidecimal value, e.g. 14/0xE is 1110 as a binary bitmap. For each bit position that is set, (i.e. has a binary value of 1) a lookup will be performed using that bit position as the key. In this example, positions 1, 2 & 3 are set so a lookup would be performed for these bit positions. The result of each lookup for the bitmap are concatenated together in bit position order, separated by a space.

If ignoreWarnings is true then any lookup failures will be ignored and it will return the value(s) for the bit positions it was able to lookup.

This function can be useful when you have a set of values that can be represented as a bitmap and you need them to be converted back to individual values. For example if you have a set of additive account permissions (e.g Admin, ManageUsers, PerformExport, etc.), each of which is associated with a bit position, then a user’s permissions could be defined as a single decimal/hex bitmap value. Thus a bitmap lookup with this value would return all the permissions held by the user.

For example the reference data store may contain:

Key (Bit position) Value
0 Administrator
1 Manage_Users
2 Perform_Export
3 View_Data
4 Manage_Jobs
5 Delete_Data
6 Manage_Volumes

The following are example lookups using the above reference data:

Lookup Key (decimal) Lookup Key (Hex) Bitmap Result
0 0x0 0000000 -
1 0x1 0000001 Administrator
74 0x4A 1001010 Manage_Users View_Data Manage_Volumes
2 0x2 0000010 Manage_Users
96 0x60 1100000 Delete_Data Manage_Volumes

dictionary()

The dictionary() function gets the contents of the specified dictionary for use during translation. The main use for this function is to allow users to abstract the management of a set of keywords from the XSLT so that it is easier for some users to make quick alterations to a dictionary that is used by some XSLT, without the need for the user to understand the complexities of XSLT.

format-date()

The format-date() function takes a Pattern and optional TimeZone arguments and replaces the parsed contents with an XML standard Date Format. The pattern must be a Java based SimpleDateFormat. If the optional TimeZone argument is present the pattern must not include the time zone pattern tokens (z and Z). A special time zone value of “GMT/BST” can be used to guess the time based on the date (BST during British Summer Time).

E.g. Convert a GMT date time “2009/12/01 12:34:11”

<xsl:value-of select="s:format-date('2009/08/01 12:34:11', 'yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss')"/>

E.g. Convert a GMT or BST date time “2009/08/01 12:34:11”

<xsl:value-of select="s:format-date('2009/08/01 12:34:11', 'yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss', 'GMT/BST')"/>

E.g. Convert a GMT+1:00 date time “2009/08/01 12:34:11”

<xsl:value-of select="s:format-date('2009/08/01 12:34:11', 'yyyy/MM/dd HH:mm:ss', 'GMT+1:00')"/>

E.g. Convert a date time specified as milliseconds since the epoch “1269270011640”

<xsl:value-of select="s:format-date('1269270011640')"/>

Time Zone Must be as per the rules defined in SimpleDateFormat under General Time Zone syntax.

http-call()

Executes an HTTP(S) request to a remote server and returns the response.

http-call(String url, [String headers], [String mediaType], [String data], [String clientConfig])

The arguments are as follows:

  • url - The URL to send the request to.
  • headers - A newline (&#10;) delimited list of HTTP headers to send. Each header is of the form key:value.
  • mediaType - The media (or MIME) type of the request data, e.g. application/json. If not set application/json; charset=utf-8 will be used.
  • data - The data to send. The data type should be consistent with mediaType. Supplying the data argument means a POST request method will be used rather than the default GET.
  • clientConfig - A JSON object containing the configuration for the HTTP client to use, including any SSL configuration.

The function returns the response as XML with namespace stroom-http. The XML includes the body of the response in addition to the status code, success status, message and any headers.

clientConfig

The client can be configured using a JSON object containing various optional configuration items. The following is an example of the client configuration object with all keys populated.

{
  "callTimeout": "PT30S",
  "connectionTimeout": "PT30S",
  "followRedirects": false,
  "followSslRedirects": false,
  "httpProtocols": [
    "http/2",
    "http/1.1"
  ],
  "readTimeout": "PT30S",
  "retryOnConnectionFailure": true,
  "sslConfig": {
    "keyStorePassword": "password",
    "keyStorePath": "/some/path/client.jks",
    "keyStoreType": "JKS",
    "trustStorePassword": "password",
    "trustStorePath": "/some/path/ca.jks",
    "trustStoreType": "JKS",
    "sslProtocol": "TLSv1.2",
    "hostnameVerificationEnabled": false
  },
  "writeTimeout": "PT30S"
}

If you are using two-way SSL then you may need to set the protocol to HTTP/1.1.

  "httpProtocols": [
    "http/1.1"
  ],

Example output

The following is an example of the XML returned from the http-call function:

<response xmlns="stroom-http">
  <successful>true</successful>
  <code>200</code>
  <message>OK</message>
  <headers>
    <header>
      <key>cache-control</key>
      <value>public, max-age=600</value>
    </header>
    <header>
      <key>connection</key>
      <value>keep-alive</value>
    </header>
    <header>
      <key>content-length</key>
      <value>108</value>
    </header>
    <header>
      <key>content-type</key>
      <value>application/json;charset=iso-8859-1</value>
    </header>
    <header>
      <key>date</key>
      <value>Wed, 29 Jun 2022 13:03:38 GMT</value>
    </header>
    <header>
      <key>expires</key>
      <value>Wed, 29 Jun 2022 13:13:38 GMT</value>
    </header>
    <header>
      <key>server</key>
      <value>nginx/1.21.6</value>
    </header>
    <header>
      <key>vary</key>
      <value>Accept-Encoding</value>
    </header>
    <header>
      <key>x-content-type-options</key>
      <value>nosniff</value>
    </header>
    <header>
      <key>x-frame-options</key>
      <value>sameorigin</value>
    </header>
    <header>
      <key>x-xss-protection</key>
      <value>1; mode=block</value>
    </header>
  </headers>
  <body>{"buildDate":"2022-06-29T09:22:41.541886118Z","buildVersion":"SNAPSHOT","upDate":"2022-06-29T11:06:26.869Z"}</body>
</response>

Example usage

This is an example of how to use the function call in your XSLT. It is recommended to place the clientConfig JSON in a Dictionary to make it easier to edit and to avoid having to escape all the quotes.

  ...
  <xsl:template match="record">
    ...
    <!-- Read the client config from a Dictionary into a variable -->
    <xsl:variable name="clientConfig" select="stroom:dictionary('HTTP Client Config')" />
    <!-- Make the HTTP call and store the response in a variable -->
    <xsl:variable name="response" select="stroom:http-call('https://reqbin.com/echo', null, null, null, $clientConfig)" />
    <!-- Apply 'response' templates to the response -->
    <xsl:apply-templates mode="response" select="$response" />
    ...
  </xsl:template>
  
  <xsl:template mode="response" match="http:response">
    <!-- Extract just the body of the response -->
    <val><xsl:value-of select="./http:body/text()" /></val>
  </xsl:template>
  ...

Create a string that represents a hyperlink for display in a dashboard table.

link(url)
link(title, url)
link(title, url, type)

Example

link('http://www.somehost.com/somepath')
> [http://www.somehost.com/somepath](http://www.somehost.com/somepath)
link('Click Here','http://www.somehost.com/somepath')
> [Click Here](http://www.somehost.com/somepath)
link('Click Here','http://www.somehost.com/somepath', 'dialog')
> [Click Here](http://www.somehost.com/somepath){dialog}
link('Click Here','http://www.somehost.com/somepath', 'dialog|Dialog Title')
> [Click Here](http://www.somehost.com/somepath){dialog|Dialog Title}

Type can be one of:

  • dialog : Display the content of the link URL within a stroom popup dialog.
  • tab : Display the content of the link URL within a stroom tab.
  • browser : Display the content of the link URL within a new browser tab.
  • dashboard : Used to launch a stroom dashboard internally with parameters in the URL.

If you wish to override the default title or URL of the target link in either a tab or dialog you can. Both dialog and tab types allow titles to be specified after a |, e.g. dialog|My Title.

log()

The log() function writes a message to the processing log with the specified severity. Severities of INFO, WARN, ERROR and FATAL can be used. Severities of ERROR and FATAL will result in records being omitted from the output if a RecordOutputFilter is used in the pipeline. The counts for RecWarn, RecError will be affected by warnings or errors generated in this way therefore this function is useful for adding business rules to XML output.

E.g. Warn if a SID is not the correct length.

<xsl:if test="string-length($sid) != 7">
  <xsl:value-of select="s:log('WARN', concat($sid, ' is not the correct length'))"/>
</xsl:if>

lookup()

The lookup() function looks up from reference or context data a value (which can be an XML node set) and adds it to the resultant XML.

lookup(String map, String key)
lookup(String map, String key, String time)
lookup(String map, String key, String time, Boolean ignoreWarnings)
lookup(String map, String key, String time, Boolean ignoreWarnings, Boolean trace)
  • map - The name of the reference data map to perform the lookup against.
  • key - The key to lookup. The key can be a simple string, an integer value in a numeric range or a nested lookup key.
  • time - Determines which set of reference data was effective at the requested time. If no reference data exists with an effective time before the requested time then the lookup will fail. Time is in the format yyyy-MM-dd'T'HH:mm:ss.SSSXX, e.g. 2010-01-01T00:00:00.000Z.
  • ignoreWarnings - If true, any lookup failures will be ignored, else they will be reported as warnings.
  • trace - If true, additional trace information is output as INFO messages.

If the look up fails no result will be returned. By testing the result a default value may be output if no result is returned.

E.g. Look up a SID given a PF

<xsl:variable name="pf" select="PFNumber"/>
<xsl:if test="$pf">
   <xsl:variable name="sid" select="s:lookup('PF_TO_SID', $pf, $formattedDateTime)"/>

   <xsl:choose>
      <xsl:when test="$sid">
         <User>
             <Id><xsl:value-of select="$sid"/></Id>
         </User>
      </xsl:when>
      <xsl:otherwise>
         <data name="PFNumber">
            <xsl:attribute name="Value"><xsl:value-of select="$pf"/></xsl:attribute>
         </data>
      </xsl:otherwise>
   </xsl:choose>
</xsl:if>

Range lookups

Reference data entries can either be stored with single string key or a key range that defines a numeric range, e.g 1-100. When a lookup is preformed the passed key is looked up as if it were a normal string key. If that lookup fails Stroom will try to convert the key to an integer (long) value. If it can be converted to an integer than a second lookup will be performed against entries with key ranges to see if there is a key range that includes the requested key.

Range lookups can be used for looking up an IP address where the reference data values are associated with ranges of IP addresses. In this use case, the IP address must first be converted into a numeric value using numeric-ip(), e.g:

stroom:lookup('IP_TO_LOCATION', numeric-ip($ipAddress))

Similarly the reference data must be stored with key ranges whose bounds were created using this function.

Nested Maps

The lookup function allows you to perform chained lookups using nested maps. For example you may have a reference data map called USER_ID_TO_LOCATION that maps user IDs to some location information for that user and a map called USER_ID_TO_MANAGER that maps user IDs to the user ID of their manager. If you wanted to decorate a user’s event with the location of their manager you could use a nested map to achieve the lookup chain. To perform the lookup set the map argument to the list of maps in the lookup chain, separated by a /, e.g. USER_ID_TO_MANAGER/USER_ID_TO_LOCATION.

This will perform a lookup against the first map in the list using the requested key. If a value is found the value will be used as the key in a lookup against the next map. The value from each map lookup is used as the key in the next map all the way down the chain. The value from the last lookup is then returned as the result of the lookup() call. If no value is found at any point in the chain then that results in no value being returned from the function.

In order to use nested map lookups each intermediate map must contain simple string values. The last map in the chain can either contain string values or XML fragment values.

put() and get()

You can put values into a map using the put() function. These values can then be retrieved later using the get() function. Values are stored against a key name so that multiple values can be stored. These functions can be used for many purposes but are most commonly used to count a number of records that meet certain criteria.

The map is in the scope of the current pipeline process so values do not live after the stream has been processed. Also, the map will only contain entries that were put() within the current pipeline process.

An example of how to count records is shown below:

<!-- Get the current record count -->
<xsl:variable name="currentCount" select="number(s:get('count'))" />

<!-- Increment the record count -->
<xsl:variable name="count">
  <xsl:choose>
    <xsl:when test="$currentCount">
      <xsl:value-of select="$currentCount + 1" />
    </xsl:when>
    <xsl:otherwise>
      <xsl:value-of select="1" />
    </xsl:otherwise>
  </xsl:choose>
</xsl:variable>

<!-- Store the count for future retrieval -->
<xsl:value-of select="s:put('count', $count)" />

<!-- Output the new count -->
<data name="Count">
  <xsl:attribute name="Value" select="$count" />
</data>

meta-keys()

When calling this function and assigning the result to a variable, you must specify the variable data type of xs:string* (array of strings).

The following fragment is an example of using meta-keys() to emit all meta values for a given stream, into an Event/Meta element:

<Event>
  <xsl:variable name="metaKeys" select="stroom:meta-keys()" as="xs:string*" />
  <Meta>
    <xsl:for-each select="$metaKeys">
      <string key="{.}"><xsl:value-of select="stroom:meta(.)" /></string>
    </xsl:for-each>
  </Meta>
</Event>

parse-uri()

The parse-uri() function takes a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) in string form and returns an XML node with a namespace of uri containing the URI’s individual components of authority, fragment, host, path, port, query, scheme, schemeSpecificPart and userInfo. See either RFC 2306: Uniform Resource Identifiers (URI): Generic Syntax or Java’s java.net.URI Class for details regarding the components.

The following xml

<!-- Display and parse the URI contained within the text of the rURI element -->
<xsl:variable name="u" select="s:parseUri(rURI)" />

<URI>
  <xsl:value-of select="rURI" />
</URI>
<URIDetail>
  <xsl:copy-of select="$v"/>
</URIDetail>

given the rURI text contains

   http://foo:bar@w1.superman.com:8080/very/long/path.html?p1=v1&amp;p2=v2#more-details

would provide

<URL>http://foo:bar@w1.superman.com:8080/very/long/path.html?p1=v1&amp;p2=v2#more-details</URL>
<URIDetail>
  <authority xmlns="uri">foo:bar@w1.superman.com:8080</authority>
  <fragment xmlns="uri">more-details</fragment>
  <host xmlns="uri">w1.superman.com</host>
  <path xmlns="uri">/very/long/path.html</path>
  <port xmlns="uri">8080</port>
  <query xmlns="uri">p1=v1&amp;p2=v2</query>
  <scheme xmlns="uri">http</scheme>
  <schemeSpecificPart xmlns="uri">//foo:bar@w1.superman.com:8080/very/long/path.html?p1=v1&amp;p2=v2</schemeSpecificPart>
  <userInfo xmlns="uri">foo:bar</userInfo>
</URIDetail>

pointIsInsideXYPolygon()

Returns true if the specified point is inside the specified polygon. Useful for determining if a user is inside a physical zone based on their location and the boundary of that zone.

pointIsInsideXYPolygon(Number xPos, Number yPos, Number[] xPolyData, Number[] yPolyData)

Arguments:

  • xPos - The X value of the point to be tested.
  • yPos - The Y value of the point to be tested.
  • xPolyData - A sequence of X values that define the polygon.
  • yPolyData - A sequence of Y values that define the polygon.

The list of values supplied for xPolyData must correspond with the list of values supplied for yPolyData. The points that define the polygon must be provided in order, i.e. starting from one point on the polygon and then traveling round the path of the polygon until it gets back to the beginning.

Last modified November 1, 2024: Merge pull request #107 from gchq/7.1-add-keycloak-setup (9e224e4)