UUID

UUID transform plugin

Description

Generate a universally unique identifier on a specified field.

tip

This transform ONLY supported by Spark.

Options

name	type	required	default value
fields	string	yes	-
prefix	string	no	-
secure	boolean	no	false

field [string]

The name of the field to generate.

prefix [string]

The prefix string constant to prepend to each generated UUID.

secure [boolean]

the cryptographically secure algorithm can be comparatively slow The nonSecure algorithm uses a secure random seed but is otherwise deterministic

common options [string]

Transform plugin common parameters, please refer to Transform Plugin for details

Examples

  UUID {
    fields = "u"
    prefix = "uuid-"
    secure = true
  }
}

Use UUID as udf in sql.

  UUID {
    fields = "u"
    prefix = "uuid-"
    secure = true
  }

  # Use the uuid function (confirm that the fake table exists)
  sql {
    sql = "select * from (select raw_message, UUID() as info_row from fake) t1"
  }