Chioro expressions

Chioro expressions are used in various operations of Chioro. They allow the construction of complex rules. They can also be extended and reused.

Anatomy of a Chioro expression

A Chioro expression can consist of several input parameters, processes one row of the table and produces only one output parameter.

name(parameter1, parameter2, ..., parameterN)
  • name: name of the expression.
  • parameter1..N: input parameter

Example:

concatenateText('hello', ' ', 'world')

which produces the text “hello world”. This text can end up in one of the target fields or be used as part of a larger transformation.

Input and output types

Input parameters can be of the following types:

  • Text: with ""
chioro expression result
concatenateText(“hello”, “ Josef“) hello Josef
  • numbers:
Chioro expression result
1+2 3
  • Read column contents from source: $('column') returns the value from the cells of the respective column and row.
Sku Name Description Chioro expression result
123 product1 best product concatenText($(‘sku’), ’ ’, $(‘name’)) 123 product1
description chioro expression result
pants for women decode($(‘description’), /women/i, ‘F’) F
  • data table: Chioro compares the column contents of the source with the column contents of a prefetched data table
color Chioro expression result
RED lookupHole($(‘color’), ‘colorCodesToGermanNames’) red

Chioro expressions can be concatenated, which allows powerful combinations. e.g.: concatenateText(textInCapital(“hello”), “ Josef“) -> “HELLO Josef”


Output Parameters can output the following types:

  • Text or numbers
  • list: a list of output
chioro expression result
asList(“a”, “b”) [“a”, “b”]
  • Empty: If no value is present
Chioro expression Result
extractAusText(“nen”, “tomato”)
  • truth: true or false
age chioro expression result
13 $(‘age’) < 15 true

If a function is not available as a tool, you can implement it as standard javascript expressions implement them. All javascript expressions are available as chioro expressions.