Operator (numerical_to_date) in White Paper doesn't work

nurman

Hi folks,

I encountered a problem in RM while following the White Paper's tutorial.

I followed closely step-by-step the flow inside that tutorial on how to create numerical_to_date operator.

The operator was working fine but failed to show the attributes at the right part of the RM.

It's not the same like the tutorial want.

Is there any problems in my step or that is what the tutorial want?  ???

nurman

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="no"?>
<process version="5.1.017">
  <context>
    <input/>
    <output/>
    <macros/>
  </context>
  <operator activated="true" class="process" compatibility="5.1.017" expanded="true" name="Process">
    <process expanded="true" height="476" width="748">
      <operator activated="true" class="retrieve" compatibility="5.1.017" expanded="true" height="60" name="Retrieve" width="90" x="112" y="165">
        <parameter key="repository_entry" value="//Samples/data/Golf"/>
      </operator>
      <operator activated="true" class="tutorial:numerical_to_date" compatibility="5.0.000" expanded="true" height="60" name="numerical_to_date" width="90" x="313" y="165"/>
      <operator activated="true" class="adjust_date" compatibility="5.1.017" expanded="true" height="76" name="Adjust Date" width="90" x="514" y="165">
        <list key="adjustments"/>
      </operator>
      <connect from_op="Retrieve" from_port="output" to_op="numerical_to_date" to_port="example set"/>
      <connect from_op="numerical_to_date" from_port="example set" to_op="Adjust Date" to_port="example set input"/>
      <connect from_op="Adjust Date" from_port="example set output" 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>
[ /code]

MariusHelf

Hi, in this case we would need the code of your operator and not just the process xml.

Best, Marius

nurman

Hi,

I followed the code in the White Paper, but seems no luck. No attributes in the RapidMiner. Is it I have messed-up somewhere?

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package com.rapidminer.operator.preprocessing.transformation;

import com.rapidminer.example.Attribute;
import com.rapidminer.example.Attributes;
import com.rapidminer.example.Example;
import com.rapidminer.example.ExampleSet;
import com.rapidminer.example.table.AttributeFactory;
import com.rapidminer.operator.Operator;
import com.rapidminer.operator.OperatorDescription;
import com.rapidminer.operator.OperatorException;
import com.rapidminer.operator.ports.InputPort;
import com.rapidminer.operator.ports.OutputPort;
import com.rapidminer.operator.ports.metadata.AttributeMetaData;
import com.rapidminer.operator.ports.metadata.ExampleSetMetaData;
import com.rapidminer.operator.ports.metadata.ExampleSetPassThroughRule;
import com.rapidminer.operator.ports.metadata.ExampleSetPrecondition;
import com.rapidminer.operator.ports.metadata.SetRelation;
import com.rapidminer.parameter.UndefinedParameterError;
import com.rapidminer.tools.Ontology;

/**
 * This is the Numerical2Date tutorial operator.
 * 
 * @author Sebastian Land
 */
public class Numerical2DateOperator extends Operator {

	private InputPort exampleSetInput = getInputPorts().createPort("example set");
	private OutputPort exampleSetOutput = getOutputPorts().createPort("example set");

	/**
	 * Constructor
	 */
	public Numerical2DateOperator(OperatorDescription description) {
		super(description);

		exampleSetInput.addPrecondition(new ExampleSetPrecondition(exampleSetInput, new String[] { "relative time" }, Ontology.ATTRIBUTE_VALUE));

		getTransformer().addRule(new ExampleSetPassThroughRule(exampleSetInput, exampleSetOutput, SetRelation.EQUAL) {
@Override
			public ExampleSetMetaData modifyExampleSet(ExampleSetMetaData metaData) throws UndefinedParameterError {
				AttributeMetaData timeAMD = metaData.getAttributeByName("relative time");
				if (timeAMD != null) {
					timeAMD.setType(Ontology.DATE_TIME);
					timeAMD.setName("date(" + timeAMD.getName() + ")");
					timeAMD.setValueSetRelation(SetRelation.UNKNOWN);
				}
				return metaData;
			}
		});
	}

@Override
	public void doWork() throws OperatorException {
		ExampleSet exampleSet = exampleSetInput.getData();
		Attributes attributes = exampleSet.getAttributes();
		Attribute sourceAttribute = attributes.get("relative time");
		String newName = "date(" + sourceAttribute.getName() + ")";
		Attribute targetAttribute = AttributeFactory.createAttribute(newName, Ontology.DATE_TIME);
		targetAttribute.setTableIndex(sourceAttribute.getTableIndex());
		attributes.addRegular(targetAttribute);
		attributes.remove(sourceAttribute);

		for (Example example : exampleSet) {
			double timeStampValue = example.getValue(targetAttribute);
			example.setValue(targetAttribute, timeStampValue * 1000);
		}

		exampleSetOutput.deliver(exampleSet);
	}
}

MariusHelf

In your process you are loading the Golf dataset, and with the line

Attribute sourceAttribute = attributes.get("relative time");

you are trying to get an attribute named "relative time", which is not present in Golf. Thus your operator can't do anything useful.