Github user justinleet commented on a diff in the pull request: https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/742#discussion_r137883199 --- Diff: metron-stellar/stellar-common/src/test/java/org/apache/metron/stellar/dsl/functions/StringFunctionsTest.java --- @@ -408,6 +408,19 @@ public void testAppendIfMissing() throws Exception { } + @Test + public void testSubstring() throws Exception { + Map<String, Object> variables = ImmutableMap.of("s", "apache metron"); + Assert.assertEquals("metron", run("SUBSTRING(s, 7)", variables)); + Assert.assertEquals("me", run("SUBSTRING(s, 7, 9)", variables)); + Assert.assertNull(run("SUBSTRING(null, 6, 9)", new HashMap<>())); --- End diff -- Can you add a test for start being explicitly null, and another one for end being explicitly null? I mostly care about start being null, since that's a case not present in Java, given that int can't be null.
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