Ingesting multi-valued dimension from comma sep string - druid

Question

I have event data from Kafka with the following structure that I want to ingest in Druid
{
"event": "some_event",
"id": "1",
"parameters": {
"campaigns": "campaign1, campaign2",
"other_stuff": "important_info"
}
}
Specifically, I want to transform the dimension "campaigns" from a comma-separated string into an array / multi-valued dimension so that it can be nicely filtered and grouped by.
My ingestion so far looks as follows
{
"type": "kafka",
"dataSchema": {
"dataSource": "event-data",
"parser": {
"type": "string",
"parseSpec": {
"format": "json",
"timestampSpec": {
"column": "timestamp",
"format": "posix"
},
"flattenSpec": {
"fields": [
{
"type": "root",
"name": "parameters"
},
{
"type": "jq",
"name": "campaigns",
"expr": ".parameters.campaigns"
}
]
}
},
"dimensionSpec": {
"dimensions": [
"event",
"id",
"campaigns"
]
}
},
"metricsSpec": [
{
"type": "count",
"name": "count"
}
],
"granularitySpec": {
"type": "uniform",
...
}
},
"tuningConfig": {
"type": "kafka",
...
},
"ioConfig": {
"topic": "production-tracking",
...
}
}
Which however leads to campaigns being ingested as a string.
I could neither find a way to generate an array out of it with a jq expression in flattenSpec nor did I find something like a string split expression that may be used as a transformSpec.
Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Try setting useFieldDiscover: false in your ingestion spec. when this flag is set to true (which is default case) then it interprets all fields with singular values (not a map or list) and flat lists (lists of singular values) at the root level as columns.
Here is a good example and reference link to use flatten spec:
https://druid.apache.org/docs/latest/ingestion/flatten-json.html

Answer 2

Looks like since Druid 0.17.0, Druid expressions support typed constructors for creating arrays, so using expression string_to_array should do the trick!