Hi Martin,
Supporting a RENAME keyword is nice. Please could you open a new issue for
that?

Now what you wrote works:

UPDATE <class> SET <field>=<some way to get value of otherField for matched
instance>
UPDATE <class> REMOVE <otherField>

Lvc@


On 8 January 2015 at 10:57, Martin Pengelly-Phillips <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Thanks Luca - that worked (I had to change "name" to "fieldName" though).
>
> On a related note; is there a more direct way to rename a field through
> SQL API (when no property exists)?
>
> I was thinking something like
>
> UPDATE <class> RENAME <field> <newFieldName>
>
> Or even (similar to the ETL flow)
>
> UPDATE <class> SET <field>=<some way to get value of otherField for
> matched instance>
> UPDATE <class> REMOVE <otherField>
>
> At present I did it by creating a property, altering the property name and
> then dropping the property, but that felt a little wrong.
>
> cheers,
>
>
> Martin
>
>
> On Wednesday, 7 January 2015 22:26:28 UTC, Lvc@ wrote:
>>
>> Hi Martin,
>> You can do 2 field: set and remove. Example to rename the field b -> a:
>>
>> { "field": { "name": "a": "expression": "b"  } },
>> { "field": { "name": "b": "operation": "remove"  } }
>>
>> Lvc@
>>
>>
>> Lvc@
>>
>>
>> On 7 January 2015 at 18:58, Martin Pengelly-Phillips <
>> [email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi there,
>>>
>>> Been looking at http://www.orientechnologies.com/docs/last/orientdb-etl.
>>> wiki/Import-from-DBMS.html recently and wondered if it is possible to
>>> rename a field as part of the process?
>>>
>>> Tried using "select as" but it didn't make a difference to the resulting
>>> property name.
>>>
>>> {
>>>     "extractor": {
>>>         "jdbc": {
>>>             ...
>>>             "query": "SELECT taskid as id, parent_id FROM task"
>>>         }
>>>     },
>>>     "transformers": [
>>>         {"vertex": {"class": "Context"}},
>>>         {
>>>             "edge": {
>>>                 "class": "parent",
>>>                 "joinFieldName": "parent_id",
>>>                 "lookup": "Context.id"
>>>             }
>>>         }
>>>     ],
>>>     ...
>>> }
>>>
>>> Perhaps there is a transformer that can be used?
>>>
>>> cheers,
>>>
>>>
>>> Martin
>>>
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