{"id":54010,"date":"2022-04-01T13:57:18","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T13:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=54010"},"modified":"2022-04-01T13:57:18","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T13:57:18","slug":"answer-by-warren-for-splunk-message-value-a-string-literal-was-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=54010","title":{"rendered":"Answer by warren for SPLUNK : .Message.value()]: A string literal was expected"},"content":{"rendered":"

Per the docs<\/a>, the fact you have multiple types of quote marks is most likely causing the error you’re seeing.<\/p>\n

Your excised query:<\/p>\n

(select top 1 a.Message.value ('(\/\/Transaction[@transactionID=sql:column("t.Txn_Ref_Num")]\/LifeSupportNotification\/LifeSupportData\/Status)[1]', 'varchar(50)') \n<\/code><\/pre>\n
Note you have both single ('<\/code>) and<\/em> double ("<\/code>) quotes in the string.<\/p>\n
Per the dbxquery<\/code> page on Docs.Splunk, the query you send is supposed to be encased in double quotes:<\/p>\n
\n
query<\/strong>
\nSyntax<\/strong>: query=<string><\/code>
\nDescription<\/strong>: A SQL query. You can also use a URL-encoded SQL query, but you must percent-encode all spaces (%20).<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
And one of the examples shown:<\/p>\n
\n
dbxquery query="select * from actor where actor_id > ? and actor_name = ?" connection="mysql" params="3,BOB"<\/code><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
The two other examples shown:<\/p>\n
\n
| dbxquery query="SELECT actor_id, first_name as fname, last_name as lname, last_update FROM actor" connection="mySQL" <\/code><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
\n
| dbxquery query="SELECT actor_id, first_name as fname, last_name as lname, last_update FROM actor" connection="mySQL" maxrows=100<\/code><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
from User warren – Stack Overflow https:\/\/stackoverflow.com\/questions\/71703393\/splunk-message-value-a-string-literal-was-expected\/71708029#71708029
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Per the docs, the fact you have multiple types of quote marks is most likely causing the error you’re seeing. Your excised query: (select top 1 a.Message.value (‘(\/\/Transaction[@transactionID=sql:column("t.Txn_Ref_Num")]\/LifeSupportNotification\/LifeSupportData\/Status)[1]’, ‘varchar(50)’) Note you have both single (‘) and double (") quotes in the string. Per the dbxquery page on Docs.Splunk, the query you send is supposed to …
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