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copy condition within a MAP

Chris kumar posted Mon January 27, 2025 03:32 PM

Hi!
I want to use a “tokenize” service as a transformer within a MAP, but I want to use a copy condition to avoid the error “String field is missing.”

Is it possible to use this copy condition within a MAP?

I am using a regular expression to validate if the string is empty or exists in the pipeline, and it (the copy condition) works only when I invoke this service outside the MAP.

I know I can add a branch to validate whether this field exists or not, but I would like to know if there is a way to do this.

Thank you for your help, Community!

Kailash Kumar Mishra posted Wed January 29, 2025 12:51 AM

Hi Chris,

Yes it is possible to use Copy Condition in a MAP step. But in your particular case wherein you are using a Transformer in the MAP step (pub.string:tokenize) and you want to pass Input inString to the Transformer only when your variable has an actual value can be achieved only when there are more than 1 source variables and all are mapped via a Copy Condition and at least one variable must contain a value else you will end up with same error as the Transformer Input inString in Mandatory input: [ISS.0086.9249] Missing Parameter: inString

Something like below logic

Developer EDI posted Mon February 03, 2025 04:13 PM

Try setting a copy condition to the in string of the tokenizer like " %testkey%!=$null " , set default hardcoded value of instring to null , like below screen shot and unselect overwrite pipeline value.