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Flux: Flattening of stream records with array property in the record type
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Description
I am looking to sanitise some data for forecasts made from a point in time, stored in a field as JSON. I have been able to convert this JSON column field into an array type, and have been able to conform to the following signature:
stream[{_time: time, _values: [{_at: time, _value: float}]}]
I intend to "flatten" this stream of arrays into something where I can see forecast convergence, essentially, creating a sort of pivot. But for this, I need to perform some operation to get this signature:
stream[{_time: time, _at: time, _value: float}]
Essentially, for every record in the stream, there will be 0...n records on the output, but they will be within the same time domain before the pivot.
I am looking to use a query/task within Influx to deal with this before taking to an external solution to manage the "flattening" of nested values. The records are also being written by a tool I have limited control over.
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Research direction
Start with the Flux query/task capabilities for iterating an array-valued record and check whether a built-in operation can produce one output record per nested value. Done means transforming stream[{_time: time, _values: [{_at: time, _value: float}]}] into stream[{_time: time, _at: time, _value: float}] while preserving the time fields and supporting zero or more output records.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- json
- Domain
- databases
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 5/5
- Estimated time
- Over a week
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 25/100