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ASF GitHub Bot commented on METRON-640:
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Github user cestella commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/incubator-metron/pull/403#discussion_r95375717
--- Diff:
metron-platform/metron-common/src/main/java/org/apache/metron/common/dsl/functions/StringFunctions.java
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@@ -284,4 +287,36 @@ private static Object fill(FillDirection direction,
Object inputObject, Object f
}
return
org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils.rightPad(input,requiredLength,fill);
}
+
+ @Stellar( namespace="STRING"
+ , name="ENTROPY"
+ , description = "Computes the base-2 shannon entropy of a string"
--- End diff --
Good catch; this is, at this point, pretty classical work, so I link to the
wikipedia definition rather than claude shannon's original work.
> Add a Stellar function to compute shannon entropy for strings
> -------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: METRON-640
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/METRON-640
> Project: Metron
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Reporter: Casey Stella
>
> A common feature used for models (especially DGA models) is shannon entropy
> of strings. We should have the ability to compute it in stellar.
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