This does not work for merging with text substitution for the same reason I mentioned in my previous comment, but you are right, it is include functionality.   I was probably biased towards the use case for which I created this thread. 🙂   Thanks. ... View more

I assumed so, but wanted to confirm that there is no state sharing "behind the scenes", especially in the Command building process.   Thanks for the confirmation. ... View more

Sure.   FreeMarker is a good idea, especially now that they have switched to the Apache 2.0 License.   ... View more

Thanks for the prompt answer!   Adding to the Morphlines Reference Guide, the tryRules block has to be placed inside the commands block, e.g.   morphlines : [ { id : morphline1 importCommands : ["org.kitesdk.**", "org.apache.solr.**"] commands : [ { readLine { charset : UTF-8 } } { tryRules { catchExceptions : false throwExceptionIfAllRulesFailed : true rules : [ # next rule of tryRules cmd: { commands : [ { ... } { ... } ] } # next rule of tryRules cmd: { commands : [ { ... } { ... } ] } } } ] }     ... View more