Github user merrimanr commented on the issue:
https://github.com/apache/metron/pull/1010
Most of this worked, I could only find one issue. We store a user's
selected columns in local storage right now. These columns are selected in the
Configure Table view and the list of available columns comes from a REST call
that returns ES (or Solr) metadata. The available column list will always be
correct since that information is coming straight from the index templates or
schemas but the column name in local storage will become incorrect since it's
still the old source type.
There is an attempt to just transform the name in the selected column list
but I think this is flawed (I added an inline comment on that). I am not sure
what the best way to handle this is. I feel like if we find ourselves
hardcoding either "source:type" or "source.type" we're doing something wrong.
One idea is to limit the source.type.field property to be either
"source:type" or "source.type". This would at least allow us to perform those
hardcoded checks to see if we need to substitute the new value. Otherwise
we'll need to evolve our local storage model by using boolean fields like
"includeSourceType" instead of the actual source.type.field value. This would
make upgrading harder though.
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