Boolean widget issue

[MelanieTU]

Hi,
I use the boolean widget, outputting an integer as I need 1 or 0 for a given node. But I also need from the same boolean widget node a boolean type false,true output for another node. Can I somehow convert the integer boolean output to a boolean type (false,true)? If so, how?
Greetings

[takbb]

Hi @MelanieTU , ok this was a surprise, and not a good one.

My go to “obvious” solutions were Rule Engine (variable) and String Manipulation (Variable). They should have been able to do the job in my view… but I was surprised by the results!

Rule Engine (Variable)

Fail! It cannot handle the creation of a Boolean variable. Unlike its non-variable counterpart, it simply refuses to create Booleans!

**String Manipulation (Variable) **

Fail! It all looks fine. The Boolean(x) function should achieve exactly what we want… but when we run it…

String Manipulation (Variable) cannot, it seems, generate a Boolean variable! This looks like a bug to me, since the function is allowed syntactically.

So I looked at Java Edit (Variable) … it can’t create a Boolean either.

and I looked at Variable Expressions.

Fail! It can evaluate an expression to true or false, which looked promising, but again it cannot generate a boolean variable type.

I considered turning the logic round so that the Boolean Config generates a boolean that we turn into an integer, but none of the above nodes can even “see” the boolean variable…

It would appear that Booleans are not well served by the variable-specific nodes! I’d never noticed this before. I’ve only tried this out in KNIME 4.7. I haven’t tried it in KNIME 5.1.

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The workaround to me then is to turn the variable into a row/column, deal with it…

using Rule Engine:

or using String Manipulation:

and then turn it back into a variable.

[takbb]

My new component

Integer to Boolean (Variable) – takbb

[MelanieTU]

It works, thank you!
Greetings

[iCFO]

Great component idea @takbb !