These docs are for Cribl Edge 4.4 and are no longer actively maintained.

See the latest version (4.13).

Miscellaneous Expression Methods

C.Schema – Schema Methods

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C.Schema

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Schema: (id: string) => SchemaValidator

C.Schema.validate()

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SchemaValidator.validate(data: any): boolean

Validates the given object against the schema.

Returns true when schema is valid; otherwise, false.

Examples

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To validate whether a myField conforms to schema1, you can use:

C.Schema('schema1').validate(myField)

See Schema Library for more details.

C.Secret – Secrets‑Management Methods

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C.Secret()

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Secret: (id: string, type?: string): ISecret
Secret(id: string, type: 'keypair') => IPairSecret
Secret(id: string, type: 'text') => ITextSecret
Secret(id: string, type: 'credentials') => ICredentialsSecret

Returns a secret matching the specified ID.

Examples

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To return a text secret with ID victorias (or with undefined, if no such secret exists), use:

C.Secret('victorias', 'text')

You can also get attributes of secrets with the following expressions:

C.Secret('api_key', 'keypair').secretKey
C.Secret('secret_hash', 'text').value
C.Secret('user_pass', 'credentials').password

Common returned attributes for ISecret objects:

• secretType – one of keypair, text, or credentials.
• description (optional) – the secret description.
• tags (optional) – a comma separated list of tags.

Additional returned attributes for IPairSecret objects:

• apiKey – the API key value
• secretKey – the Secret key value

Additional returned attributes for ITextSecret objects:

• value – the text value

Additional returned attributes for ICredentialsSecret objects:

• username – the username value
• password – the password value

See Securing Cribl Stream > Secrets for more details.

C.env – Environment

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C.env

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env: {[key: string]: string;}

Returns an object containing Cribl Edge’s environment variables.

Examples

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To return the parent of Cribl’s bin directory (generally /opt/cribl), use:

C.env.CRIBL_HOME

To return the hostname of the machine where Cribl Edge is running, use:

C.env.HOSTNAME

C.os – System Methods

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C.os.hostname()

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Returns hostname of the system running this Cribl Edge instance.

C.vars – Global Variables

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See Global Variables Library for more details.

C.version – Cribl Edge Versions

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C.version

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Returns the Cribl Edge version currently running.

C.confVersion

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Returns the commit hash of the Edge Node’s current config version. (Evaluates only against live data sent through Edge Nodes. Values will be undefined in the Leader’s Preview pane.)

C.Misc – Miscellaneous Utility Methods

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C.Misc.zip()

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Misc.zip(keys: string[], values: any[], dest?: any): any

Sets the given keys to the corresponding values on the given dest object. If dest is not provided, a new object will be constructed.

Returns object on which the fields were set.

Examples

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Let’s take the following expression:

people = C.Misc.zip(titles, names)

If sample data contains: titles=['ceo', 'svp', 'vp'], names=['foo', 'bar', 'baz'], this expression create an object called people, with key names from elements in titles, and with corresponding values from elements in names.

Result: "people": {"ceo": "foo", "svp": "bar", "vp": "baz"}