opensearch-project / opensearch-project/data-prepper
Allowlist support for deleting entries
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Description
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
As a user, I would like to filter the keys in my Event with an explicit allowlist, and delete all other keys.
Describe the solution you'd like
An additional parameter in the delete_entries processor
delete_entries:
delete_all_except: [ “key-one”, "key-two”, "key-three” ]
This would result in the Event only containing the three keys above, and all others will be deleted. We could consider having each element be a regex pattern instead of just a string, but this would impact performance, since we would have to match each key against every pattern until there was a match. For keys that don't match any patterns, they would be matched against every pattern in the list. Given that, I am proposing not support regex yet
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Research direction
The request targets the delete_entries processor, but it does not name implementation files or tests. Locate that processor and its configuration and test coverage first; done means an explicit delete_all_except list preserves only the listed keys and verifies the behavior without regex matching.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- java
- Domain
- data-engineering
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 3/5
- Estimated time
- 1-2 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100