Yet another "strange" behavior of the switch node

General
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First of all, some contextual info
OS: Linux RevPi34798 4.19.95-rt38-v7.
Dashboard version: v1.35.

The problem. I am designing a flow where a given message payload of the form

{
"section_1":{"CEV" : 0, "s" : 2},
"section_2":{"CEV" : 1, "s" : 3},
"section_n":{"CEV" : 0, "s" : 1}
}

(n stands for a generic number of sections, and can be just 1) is first split with a standard (dashboard) split node in parts whose msg.payload have the following form:

{"CEV":0, "s":2}

These parts are then split again in messages whose payload are their simple numerical values: here it comes the problem. I want to route these values by using a switch node according to their msg.part.key value (respectively CEV and s): however, this does not work.
For example, in the 1-section model flow below

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where the inject node sec_sts injects the following complete message (copied from the preceding switch node in the full flow)

{
"_msgid":"bd05ad6a.fcb66",
"payload":{"CEV":0,"s":2},
"topic":"section_1",
"_event":"node:d7590ba5.b163f8",
"parts": {
         "id":"7e6805a9.7a7c4c",
         "type":"object",
         "key":"section_1",
         "index":0,
         "count":1}
}

and the split node works perfectly giving the following two complete messages

{
"payload":0,
"topic":"section_1",
"_event":"node:d7590ba5.b163f8",
"parts":{
        "parts":{
                 "id":"7e6805a9.7a7c4c",
                 "type":"object",
                 "key":"section_1",
                 "index":0,
                 "count":1
                 },
        "id":"6cb0f9b3.45c048",
        "type":"object",
        "key":"CEV",
        "index":0,
        "count":2
        },
"_msgid":"8dd99f88.82b48"
}

and

{
"payload":2,
"topic":"section_1",
"_event":"node:d7590ba5.b163f8",
"parts":{
        "parts":{
                "id":"7e6805a9.7a7c4c",
                "type":"object",
                "key":"section_1",
                "index":0,"count":1
                },
        "id":"6cb0f9b3.45c048",
        "type":"object",
        "key":"s",
        "index":1,
        "count":2
        },
"_msgid":"3e32f1bf.799b2e"
}

I am not able to make the sts_router split node work correctly, i.e. to make it work according to the values of the msg.parts.key property. Setting of the sts_router node is

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I'm almost sure that I am missing something trivial, but I am not able to see it, so I've decided to ask for your precious help. Thanks in advance.

2

Can you share this flow?

3

It seems to work for me:

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4

Shouldn’t you be testing msg.parts.parts.key?

5

Sure, here it is.
flows-3.json (4.0 KB)

6

I dont see any issue other than you had turned off the debug node output. Here is your flow with separate debug nodes and output and status enabled....

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No, I need to access the outer msg.parts.key which correspond to the latest split. Testing msg.parts.parts would be equivalent to extract the value of section_x, which is the same for CEV and s.

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You're right: it seems it is an issue of the RIC out node: opening it seem that I lose the graphical enable command, possibly during some edit. I've deleted and readded it, and now it works. Thank you very much