OMG, I'm so sorry, please ignore.
Its so simple, just had to use:
row.remove( 'salesRankShortTerm' );
because the script runs at the end after the entire entity has been
processed (I suppose) rather than per field.
Thanks!
On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 5:42 PM, Pulkit Singhal <pulkitsing...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The data I'm running through the DIH looks like:
>
> <products>
> <product>
> <new>false</new>
> <active>false</active>
> <regularPrice>349.99</regularPrice>
> <salesRankShortTerm/>
> </product>
> </products>
>
> As you can see, in this particular instance of a product, there is no
> value for "salesRankShortTerm" which happens to be defined in my
> schema like so:
> <field name="salesRankShortTerm" type="slong" indexed="true" stored="true"
> />
>
> Having an empty value in the incoming DIH data leads to an exception:
> Caused by: java.lang.NumberFormatException: For input string: ""
>
> 1) How can I skip this field if its empty?
>
> If I use script transformer like so:
> <script>
> <![CDATA[
> function skipRow(row) {
> var salesRankShortTerm = row.get( 'salesRankShortTerm' );
> if ( salesRankShortTerm == null || salesRankShortTerm == '' ) {
> row.put( '$skipRow', 'true' );
> }
> return row;
> }
> ]]>
> </script>
> THEN, I will end up skipping the entire document :(
>
> 2) So please help me understand how I can configure it to only skip a
> field and not the document?
>
> Thanks,
> - Pulkit
>
