Simplify the substring
column mapping transform configuration
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Related to configuration and its syntax
The
substring
column mapping transform lets you extract substrings from a string column. Currently, its configuration looks like this:The
values
array must have length 2. The first element is the starting index of the substring and the second element is its length. This would be simpler and more readable as two separate TOML attributes, like this:The first step would be to deprecate the old
values
array and support the new attributes. During this step, we would still accept thevalues
array, but we would internally convert it to astart_index
andlength
and print a deprecation message. Then in hlink v4.0 or whenever else we make breaking changes, we could drop support for thevalues
array entirely and just support the separate attributes.The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: