Github user markap14 commented on a diff in the pull request:
https://github.com/apache/nifi/pull/2570#discussion_r176439185
--- Diff:
nifi-commons/nifi-record-path/src/main/java/org/apache/nifi/record/path/functions/ToBytes.java
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+package org.apache.nifi.record.path.functions;
+
+import org.apache.nifi.record.path.FieldValue;
+import org.apache.nifi.record.path.RecordPathEvaluationContext;
+import org.apache.nifi.record.path.StandardFieldValue;
+import org.apache.nifi.record.path.paths.RecordPathSegment;
+import org.apache.nifi.record.path.util.RecordPathUtils;
+import org.apache.nifi.serialization.record.RecordFieldType;
+import org.apache.nifi.serialization.record.util.DataTypeUtils;
+
+import java.nio.charset.Charset;
+import java.util.stream.Stream;
+
+public class ToBytes extends RecordPathSegment {
+
+ private final RecordPathSegment recordPath;
+ private final RecordPathSegment charsetSegment;
+
+ public ToBytes(final RecordPathSegment recordPath, final
RecordPathSegment charsetSegment, final boolean absolute) {
+ super("toBytes", null, absolute);
+ this.recordPath = recordPath;
+ this.charsetSegment = charsetSegment;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public Stream<FieldValue> evaluate(RecordPathEvaluationContext
context) {
+ final Stream<FieldValue> fieldValues =
recordPath.evaluate(context);
+ return fieldValues.filter(fv -> fv.getValue() != null)
+ .map(fv -> {
+
+ if (!(fv.getValue() instanceof String)) {
+ return fv;
--- End diff --
We should probably be throwing an Exception in this case? The user in this
case is attempting to coerce a type that is not valid to coerce. Or otherwise
filter it out from the results. It seems wrong to me to just ignore the
conversion.
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