The com.apama.util.AnyExtractor event for extracting data from an any type now has actions getAnyOr, getStringOr, getIntegerOr, getFloatOr, getBooleanOr, getSequenceOr, and getDictionaryOr. These actions return a user-specified default value if the path to the nested value does not exist, or if the path exists but the value is not of the required type. These offer non-throwing alternatives to the existing getter actions in the AnyExtractor event. See the API Reference for EPL (ApamaDoc) for more information.

AnyExtractor now supports extracting values from some additional types: events, sequence<ANY_TYPE>, dictionary<string,ANY_TYPE>, dictionary<any,ANY_TYPE> and location objects. The "." and "[]" operators are also interchangeable, so either can be used for extracting values from any of these types.