"Everything but" event filter scenario

[corkupine]

Hi all,

I have a situation that I'd like to address in the best way possible. I've got an AWS SQS queue, and each message has a "type". For a select few types, we'd like to spin up a job to process the information contained in the message. For all other types, we want to forward these messages to another SQS queue.

I have some questions:

• First, it looks like I cannot have all of this happen in one sensor - from what I can tell, I can't tie a dependency directly to a trigger. Please confirm.

• Second, I have determined that I can use a regex data filter to check for the "type" (I have to use ^ and & anchors for an exact match). However, I'm not sure how I can create a data filter to exclude anything that matches any of the given values ("everything but" the values specified). I tried using the != comparator, but it's not working - maybe it doesn't work for multiple values? I'd like to be able to have a list of values in my Helm values.yaml that I can just pop into the value list in the dependency filter.

Any advice is appreciated!