[SOLVED] Union of example sets

User: "manwann"
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Updated by Jocelyn
Hi All,

I need to append the resultset using different queries where the userID is changing. So first i read a list of userID from a CSV file (this file only has one column, userID). Then I can iterate over the userID using a Loop Value operator. Inside the loop operator I have a readDatabase operator using the following query:

SELECT
  "movieID",
  genre
 FROM movielens10m."Movie"
WHERE "movieID" IN
(
 SELECT
   "Rating"."MovieID"
 FROM
   movielens10m."Rating"
 WHERE
   "Rating"."userID" = %{loop_value}
)

Genre is a compound attribute which contains something like value1|value3|value7. After the loop execution, It's sure that output has movieID.  But genre maybe has different length of columns for each collection's item. When I try to use the append operator an error is araised because the length of columns is different for each collection's item. I can't use union because this operator does not receive a collection type.

What do you suggest me to do?

Thanks in advance. Below is the flow

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<process version="5.2.006">
 <context>
   <input/>
   <output/>
   <macros/>
 </context>
 <operator activated="true" class="process" compatibility="5.2.006" expanded="true" name="Process">
   <process expanded="true" height="235" width="550">
     <operator activated="true" class="read_csv" compatibility="5.2.006" expanded="true" height="60" name="Read CSV" width="90" x="45" y="30">
       <parameter key="csv_file" value="C:\Users\asistente\Documents\TesisSF\RapidDS\Iterar10m.txt"/>
       <parameter key="first_row_as_names" value="false"/>
       <list key="annotations"/>
       <parameter key="encoding" value="windows-1252"/>
       <list key="data_set_meta_data_information">
         <parameter key="0" value="userID.true.polynominal.attribute"/>
       </list>
     </operator>
     <operator activated="true" class="loop_values" compatibility="5.2.006" expanded="true" height="76" name="Loop Values" width="90" x="179" y="30">
       <parameter key="attribute" value="userID"/>
       <process expanded="true" height="554" width="685">
         <operator activated="true" class="read_database" compatibility="5.2.006" expanded="true" height="60" name="MoviesDB (2)" width="90" x="112" y="30">
           <parameter key="connection" value="PG_movielens100k"/>
           <parameter key="query" value="SELECT &#10;   &quot;movieID&quot;, &#10;   genre&#10;  FROM movielens10m.&quot;Movie&quot;&#10;WHERE &quot;movieID&quot; IN&#10;(&#10;  SELECT &#10;    &quot;Rating&quot;.&quot;MovieID&quot;&#10;  FROM &#10;    movielens10m.&quot;Rating&quot;&#10;  WHERE &#10;    &quot;Rating&quot;.&quot;userID&quot; = %{loop_value}&#10;)"/>
           <enumeration key="parameters"/>
         </operator>
         <operator activated="true" class="set_role" compatibility="5.2.006" expanded="true" height="76" name="movieID_Movies (2)" width="90" x="246" y="30">
           <parameter key="name" value="movieID"/>
           <parameter key="target_role" value="id"/>
           <list key="set_additional_roles"/>
         </operator>
         <operator activated="true" class="replace" compatibility="5.2.006" expanded="true" height="76" name="DashDelete (2)" width="90" x="380" y="30">
           <parameter key="attribute_filter_type" value="single"/>
           <parameter key="attribute" value="genre"/>
           <parameter key="replace_what" value="-"/>
         </operator>
         <operator activated="true" class="split" compatibility="5.2.006" expanded="true" height="76" name="Genres (2)" width="90" x="514" y="30">
           <parameter key="attribute_filter_type" value="single"/>
           <parameter key="attribute" value="genre"/>
           <parameter key="split_pattern" value="\|"/>
           <parameter key="split_mode" value="unordered_split"/>
         </operator>
         <connect from_op="MoviesDB (2)" from_port="output" to_op="movieID_Movies (2)" to_port="example set input"/>
         <connect from_op="movieID_Movies (2)" from_port="example set output" to_op="DashDelete (2)" to_port="example set input"/>
         <connect from_op="DashDelete (2)" from_port="example set output" to_op="Genres (2)" to_port="example set input"/>
         <connect from_op="Genres (2)" from_port="example set output" to_port="out 1"/>
         <portSpacing port="source_example set" spacing="0"/>
         <portSpacing port="sink_out 1" spacing="0"/>
         <portSpacing port="sink_out 2" spacing="0"/>
       </process>
     </operator>
     <operator activated="true" class="loop_collection" compatibility="5.2.006" expanded="true" height="60" name="Loop Collection" width="90" x="313" y="30">
       <process expanded="true" height="554" width="685">
         <operator activated="true" class="recall" compatibility="5.2.006" expanded="true" height="60" name="Recall" width="90" x="45" y="210">
           <parameter key="name" value="movies"/>
           <parameter key="io_object" value="ExampleSet"/>
         </operator>
         <operator activated="true" class="union" compatibility="5.2.006" expanded="true" height="76" name="Union" width="90" x="246" y="30"/>
         <operator activated="true" class="remember" compatibility="5.2.006" expanded="true" height="60" name="Remember" width="90" x="447" y="30">
           <parameter key="name" value="movies"/>
           <parameter key="io_object" value="ExampleSet"/>
         </operator>
         <connect from_port="single" to_op="Union" to_port="example set 1"/>
         <connect from_op="Recall" from_port="result" to_op="Union" to_port="example set 2"/>
         <connect from_op="Union" from_port="union" to_op="Remember" to_port="store"/>
         <portSpacing port="source_single" spacing="0"/>
         <portSpacing port="sink_output 1" spacing="0"/>
       </process>
     </operator>
     <operator activated="true" class="recall" compatibility="5.2.006" expanded="true" height="60" name="Recall (2)" width="90" x="450" y="30">
       <parameter key="name" value="movies"/>
       <parameter key="io_object" value="ExampleSet"/>
     </operator>
     <connect from_op="Read CSV" from_port="output" to_op="Loop Values" to_port="example set"/>
     <connect from_op="Loop Values" from_port="out 1" to_op="Loop Collection" to_port="collection"/>
     <connect from_op="Recall (2)" from_port="result" to_port="result 1"/>
     <portSpacing port="source_input 1" spacing="0"/>
     <portSpacing port="sink_result 1" spacing="0"/>
     <portSpacing port="sink_result 2" spacing="0"/>
   </process>
 </operator>
</process>

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