Filter CSV convert doesn't work as documentation says

[jsvd]

migrated from elastic/logstash#7191

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Hello, i'm configuring logstash for parsing some csv files. I wanted to use the convert option from the CSV filter as in https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-csv.html#plugins-filters-csv-convert

• Version: 5.4.0
• Operating System: RHEL
• Config File

filter {
    csv {
        skip_empty_columns => "true"
        separator => "," 
        autogenerate_column_names => "true"
    
        convert  => [ "timeStamp" => "date_time" , "elapsed" => "integer" , "responseCode" => "integer" , "success" => "boolean" , "bytes" => "integer" , "Latency" => "integer" , "IdleTime" => "integer" 
        add_tag => [ "JMETER" ]
  }
}

Result of the config test :

Sending Logstash's logs to /exploit/logstash/logs/ which is now configured via log4j2.properties
[2017-05-24T10:55:12,964][FATAL][logstash.runner          ] The given configuration is invalid. Reason: Expected one of #, {, } at line 22, column 45 (byte 582) after filter {
  csv {
    skip_empty_columns => "true"
    separator => ","
    autogenerate_column_names => "true"
    #columns => [ "timeStamp","elapsed","label","responseCode","responseMessage","threadName","dataType","success","failureMessage","bytes","grpThreads","allThreads","Latency","IdleTime"]
    convert  => { "timeStamp" => "date_time"

• Steps to Reproduce: was working with a convert option by colum to filter

like mutate convert https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/logstash/current/plugins-filters-mutate.html#plugins-filters-mutate-convert )

convert => { "timeStamp" => "date"}

Thanks for clearing this case ! :)

David