AddField

[Joseph2424]

Is it possible to inject a unique identifier (UUID) using the AddField processor?

[oririechman]

Hey @Joseph2424
Currently we are not supporting this feature.
I think the best way is to add it to the templating service like we did with date time.
@asafm What do you think?

[asafm]

@oririechman - can you be more specific - I forgot what we did with date time?

[oririechman]

We added to the MustacheTemplate another scope called DateTemplateHandler in order to support injection of datetime strings
for example:

{
  addField: {
    config: {
      path: "timestamp"
      value: "{{date}} {{time}} {{#dateTemplate}}yyyy{{/dateTemplate}}"
    }
  }
}

So we can add UUID the same way

[asafm]

@oririechman - I tried reading the our Wiki page on Templates and still didn't figure out how does this work. Where do we specifically say "#dateTemplate" should be run by dateTemplateHandler, in our code?

I also don't understand what's the syntax of "#..." stands for

Our wiki page of Templates definitely to explain this better.

Once I understand this we can discuss UUID