Convert values from string to int

[Law_Rence]

How can I convert all the keys that have numbers from strings to int using ruby?

example:
"x": "hello",
"a": "1",
"b": "2",
"c": "3",
"d": "bye"

to:

"x": "hello",
"a": 1,
"b": 2,
"c": 3,
e.t.c

here's my ruby:

filter {
    ruby {
        code => "
            event.get("message").each {|key, value|
               if value =~ /\A\d+\Z/
                event.set("value", value.to_i)
               end
           }
           "
      }
}

thanks

[Badger]

@Law_Rence

event.set("value", value.to_i)

Surely that should be event.set(key, value.to_i).

[Law_Rence]

@Law_Rence

filter {
    ruby {
        code => "
            event.get("message").each {|key, value|
               if value =~ /\A\d+\Z/
                event.set("value", value.to_i)
               end
           }
           "
      }
}

thanks @Badger

However i get a

  "tags": [
    "_rubyexception"
  ],

my message looks like this

{
  "MSG": "File successfully transmitted to drive",
  "payloadTransferSpeedMBps": "146.388052",
  "transferTime": "0.032947",
  "readWriteTime": "0.027923",
  "reconciliationTime": "0",
  "driveTransferSpeedMBps": "146.402652",
  "capacityInBytes": "500000000000",
  "fileId": "757082",
  "@version": "1",
  "tapeVid": "V01006",
  "checksumingTime": "0.004905",
  "totalTime": "0.032877",
  "vendor": "IBM",
  "thread": "TapeWrite",
  "path": "/var/log/cta/cta-taped.log",
  "fSeq": "12835",
  "fileSize": "4812800",
  "headerVolume": "480",
  "LBPMode": "LBP_Off",
  "tapeDrive": "VDSTK11",
  "mediaType": "LTO8",
  "waitDataTime": "0.000011",
  "waitReportingTime": "0.000108",
  "dataVolume": "4812800",
  "vo": "desy",
  "mountId": "5643",
  "mountType": "ArchiveForUser",
  "TID": "15081",
  "LVL": "INFO",
  "PID": "14663",
  "@timestamp": "2023-02-15T15:38:45.874Z",
  "tags": [
    "_rubyexception"
  ],
  "logicalLibrary": "VLSTK10",
  "type": "cta-taped"
}

so i want all the values to be integers...these are not the only fields..
my filter looks like this

filter {
    ruby {
        code => "
            event.get('message').each {|key, value|
               if value =~ /\A\d+\Z/
                event.set(key, value.to_i)
               end
           }
           "
      }
}

filter {
  mutate {
    gsub => ["message", " msg='", " _nested='"]
  }
  kv {
    source => "_nested"
    remove_field => "_nested"
  }

  kv {remove_field => "message" }

}

what am i missing/doing wrong?

[Badger]

If the kv filter is creating the fields that you want to be integers then it has to be before the ruby filter that converts them.

If you are getting a _rubyexception tag then logstash will be logging an error message. What is that message?

[Law_Rence]

hi @Badger

this is the error message

Ruby exception occurred: undefined method `each' for #<String:0x49b0e43> {:class=>"NoMethodError", :backtrace=>["(ruby filter code):3:in `block in filter_method'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.5.0/gems/logstash
-filter-ruby-3.1.8/lib/logstash/filters/ruby.rb:96:in `inline_script'", "/usr/share/logstash/vendor/bundle/jruby/2.5.0/gems/logstash-filter-ruby-3.1.8/lib/logstash/filters/ruby.r
b:89:in `filter'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/filters/base.rb:159:in `do_filter'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/filters/base.rb:178:in `bl
ock in multi_filter'", "org/jruby/RubyArray.java:1821:in `each'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/filters/base.rb:175:in `multi_filter'", "org/logstash/config/ir/
compiler/AbstractFilterDelegatorExt.java:134:in `multi_filter'", "/usr/share/logstash/logstash-core/lib/logstash/java_pipeline.rb:300:in `block in start_workers'"]}

previously, the ruby code was after the kv filters but still got the same.

[Badger]

That is telling you that [message] is a string, not a hash, so you cannot use .each on it.

[Law_Rence]

Thanks mate! Fixed it