No worries - quite a lot of functions to understand fully. That's why we have 
the community! :)

Cheers
-Mark


> On May 3, 2016, at 8:28 AM, Devin Fisher <[email protected]> 
> wrote:
> 
> Yes, that is perfect. I guess I did not read them all carefully enough. 
> Thanks.
> 
> Devin
> 
> On Tue, May 3, 2016 at 1:22 PM, Mark Payne <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
> Hi Devin,
> 
> I think the 'replaceNull' function is what you are looking for. For example:
> 
> ${ greeting:replaceNull('hello'):length():gt(5) }
> 
> You can find the documentation for this function at 
> http://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/html/expression-language-guide.html#replacenull
>  
> <http://nifi.apache.org/docs/nifi-docs/html/expression-language-guide.html#replacenull>
> 
> Thanks
> -Mark
> 
> 
>> On May 3, 2016, at 6:27 AM, Devin Fisher <[email protected] 
>> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
>> 
>> I'm looking for the ability similar to the 'getOrDefault'[1] in the Java Map 
>> class.  I would like to access an attribute if the flow file has it but be 
>> able to define a default if it don't. I've looked over the doc and can't 
>> find a way to do it and wanted to see if someone else has done it.
>> 
>> Devin 
>> 
>> [1] 
>> https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Map.html#getOrDefault-java.lang.Object-V-
>>  
>> <https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/Map.html#getOrDefault-java.lang.Object-V->
> 

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