SnapLogic - Integration Nation

mongley · ‎06-25-2018

Hi All,

I have a variable number of records coming from a mapper and will always want to drop the first. Is there an easy way to do this?

Thanks,
Mark

tstack · ‎06-25-2018

If you need to drop records, the Filter snap is usually a good option. In this case, you can use the snap.in.totalCount variable to get the total number of records that have been read by the snap. So, to skip the first one, you can use the following for the Filter Expression in the snap configuration:

snap.in.totalCount != 1

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christwr · ‎06-25-2018

There are some Head/Tail snaps you might be able to use. Perhaps a Tail snap with an offset of 1.

mongley · ‎06-25-2018

Thanks, I have taken a look at Head and Tail. They look like they would do the job however I need to know the number of documents to be processed - which I don’t. Is there a method that would return this?

christwr · ‎06-25-2018

There is an Aggregate snap, which you do stuff like COUNT, but not sure it’s worth it. If you did a Head snap with Offset=1 and Documents=1000000 (or some arbitrary max) would that work?

mongley · ‎06-26-2018

Hi Chris, yes that works thanks

SnapLogic - Integration Nation

Drop first record