Based on the TRACE log your XQuery generates the following output: ?foo? which isn?t meaningful for a morphline (e.g. into which morphline field should the ?foo? string be stored into and what if you want to return values for multiple fields or multiple records?) Thus, in your case the xquery command returns false and logDebug is never executed, hence you see no logDebug output. Note that the output of an XQuery must be shaped to conform to the format described here: http://kitesdk.org/docs/current/kite-morphlines/morphlinesReferenceGuide.html#/xquery Example XQuery output: foo bar This will generate a morphline record with a myFoo field that contains ?foo", as well as a myBar field that contains ?bar". Wolfgang. ... View more

CDH 4.x uses CDK whereas CDH 5.x uses Kite. The diff is just in the package names. ... View more

That?s pretty much what it already does. Read the first paragraph at https://github.com/kite-sdk/kite-examples/tree/master/kite-examples-morphlines again and look into the dirs mentioned there. ... View more

You can try the java command, like so: java { code: """ String str = new String((byte[]) record.getFirstValue("myInputField"), "UTF-8"); record.put("myOutputField", str); return getChild().process(record); // pass record to next command in chain """ } Wolfgang. ... View more