If field value is null does not work on ubuntu

[ilia]

Hi,

I need to replace all NULL string type values in a flow with an empty string,
so I've set up variable through java script
setVariable("DummyStr","","s")
in a [if fields value is null] I've checked select value type and put in replace by value ${DummyStr}

simple test transformation looks like this

dummy.jpg

when I'm running this transformation from spoon the log output is correct

2012/05/02 16:25:36 - Spoon - Transformation opened.
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - Spoon - Launching transformation [dummy]...
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - Spoon - Started the transformation execution.
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - dummy - Dispatching started for transformation [dummy]
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - Transformation metadata - Natural sort of steps executed in 1 ms (4 time previous steps calculated)
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - Generate Rows.0 - Finished processing (I=0, O=0, R=0, W=1, U=0, E=0)
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - SetEmptyStr.0 - Optimization level set to 9.
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - Write to log.0 -
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - Write to log.0 - ------------> Linenr 1------------------------------
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - Write to log.0 - id = null
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - Write to log.0 - field1 = Field One
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - Write to log.0 - field2 =
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - Write to log.0 - field3 =
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - Write to log.0 - field4 =
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - Write to log.0 -
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - Write to log.0 - ====================
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - SetEmptyStr.0 - Finished processing (I=0, O=0, R=1, W=1, U=0, E=0)
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - If field value is null.0 - Finished processing (I=0, O=0, R=1, W=1, U=0, E=0)
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - Write to log.0 - Finished processing (I=0, O=0, R=1, W=1, U=0, E=0)
2012/05/02 16:25:36 - Spoon - The transformation has finished!!

when I'm doing it from pan.sh on my ubuntu I'm getting following output

root@qa-db-report:~/app/data-integration# ./pan.sh -user=admin -pass=admin -rep=7 -dir=/ -trans=dummy
INFO 02-05 16:25:22,052 - Pan - Start of run.
INFO 02-05 16:25:22,156 - RepositoriesMeta - Reading repositories XML file: /root/.kettle/repositories.xml
INFO 02-05 16:25:23,317 - dummy - Dispatching started for transformation [dummy]
INFO 02-05 16:25:23,353 - Generate Rows - Finished processing (I=0, O=0, R=0, W=1, U=0, E=0)
INFO 02-05 16:25:23,569 - Write to log -
------------> Linenr 1------------------------------
id = null
field1 = Field One
field2 = ${DummyStr}
field3 = ${DummyStr}
field4 = ${DummyStr}


====================
INFO 02-05 16:25:23,587 - SetEmptyStr - Finished processing (I=0, O=0, R=1, W=1, U=0, E=0)
INFO 02-05 16:25:23,597 - If field value is null - Finished processing (I=0, O=0, R=1, W=1, U=0, E=0)
INFO 02-05 16:25:23,617 - Write to log - Finished processing (I=0, O=0, R=1, W=1, U=0, E=0)
INFO 02-05 16:25:23,617 - Pan - Finished!
INFO 02-05 16:25:23,617 - Pan - Start=2012/05/02 16:25:22.053, Stop=2012/05/02 16:25:23.617
INFO 02-05 16:25:23,618 - Pan - Processing ended after 1 seconds.
INFO 02-05 16:25:23,620 - dummy -
INFO 02-05 16:25:23,620 - dummy - Step Generate Rows.0 ended successfully, processed 1 lines. ( 1 lines/s)
INFO 02-05 16:25:23,620 - dummy - Step SetEmptyStr.0 ended successfully, processed 1 lines. ( 1 lines/s)
INFO 02-05 16:25:23,620 - dummy - Step If field value is null.0 ended successfully, processed 1 lines. ( 1 lines/s)
INFO 02-05 16:25:23,620 - dummy - Step Write to log.0 ended successfully, processed 1 lines. ( 1 lines/s)
root@qa-db-report:~/app/data-integration#

for some reason IF NULL step does not accept ${DummyStr} variable

Do you think I miss something ?

[hansva]

Not sure why you are using a variable in this case. But you haven't set the variable when executing with pan.
you have to add

-paramummyStr=""