Last Changed Record Appender¶

This stage caches the latest data of each point and appends the latest data to each record.

For a single point of a single device:

If there is no existing record of the point
- Cache the data of the point
- Append the cached data to the /attr/lastChangedRecordAppender field of the record
If there is an existing record of the point
- Append the current cached data to the /attr/lastChangedRecordAppender field of the record
- Compare the data with the cached data. If there are differences, refresh the cached data with the arrived data.

Configuration¶

The configuration tabs for this stage are General, Basic, and Input/Output.

Name	Required?	Description
Name	Yes	The name of the stage.
Description	No	The description of the stage.
Stage Library	Yes	The streaming calculator library to which the stage belongs.
Required Fields	No	The fields that the data records must contain. If the specified fields are not included, the record will be filtered out.
Preconditions	No	The conditions that must be satisfied by the data records. Records that do not meet the conditions will be filtered out.
On Record Error	Yes	The processing method for error data. Discard: Error data will be discarded and ignored Send to Error: Error messages will be reported Stop Pipeline: The pipeline will be stopped

Name	Required?	Description
Quality Filter	No	Filter the data according to the data quality. Only records that meet the quality conditions will be processed by this stage.

Name	Required?	Description
Input/Output	Yes	The last changed data is attached to each record. Specify the input points that hold the last changed data, and the output points that receive the output results.
Input Point	Yes	Specify the input point that holds the last changed data, using the format {modelId}::{pointId}.
Output Point	Yes	Specify the output point that receives the output results, using the format {modelId}::{pointId}.

The output results of this stage are included in the attr struct. The description of the fields are as follows:

Name	Data Type	Description
lastChangedRecordAppender	Map	The point attribute data object.
lastChangedTs	Long	The timestamp of the last changed record.
lastChangedValue	Object	The value of the last changed record.
lastChangedRecord	Map	The complete information of the last changed record.