Creating an action with a loosely defined parameter

[Cory Johns]

I should clarify that patternProperties is supported by json-schema, but it
might not be supported by Juju (I would guess not).  You could try it with
something like this: http://pastebin.ubuntu.com/14887866/

On Fri, Feb 5, 2016 at 4:34 PM, Cory Johns <cory.johns at canonical.com> wrote:

> You can do this, with full validation, using patternProperties.  An
> example using this can be found at: http://json-schema.org/example2.html
>
> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 11:10 PM, Marco Ceppi <marco.ceppi at canonical.com>
> wrote:
>
>> I haven't tried, but I suppose if you set it to just a `type: object`
>> without params it might accept any arbitrary key. There are downsides to
>> this, as you won't get validation. It also might just flat out not work.
>> I'll see if I can test this a bit more
>>
>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 5:05 PM Tom Barber <tom at analytical-labs.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> Yeah that wont work, because I don't know what the parameters would be
>>> called, they are basically runtime variables for ETL designers.
>>>
>>> On the command line I need to build a string that looks something like:
>>>
>>> ./kitchen -file=charmerroundup.kjb
>>> -param:marco=thinksallquestionareawesome -param:kevin=likestodrinklachoufe
>>> -param:notetoself=nevereatbluecheeseandicecream
>>>
>>> so, I can have a user pass in all those params as one long string, but
>>> it would nice to be able to model is as a KV object and just iterate over
>>> them.
>>>
>>> Tom
>>>
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>>> On 4 February 2016 at 21:59, Marco Ceppi <marco.ceppi at canonical.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I'm inclined to say "yes" but I'd need a bit more of an example to
>>>> confirm. Since actions are defined as jsonschema you can define nested
>>>> parameters and such so I believe your usecase will work. However, the
>>>> parameters you pass must be in the schema. Juju uses it to validate that
>>>> the data passed is correct.
>>>>
>>>> EG:
>>>>
>>>> http://paste.ubuntu.com/14882820/
>>>>
>>>> I could do
>>>>
>>>> juju action do network-qos device=eth1 delay.time=2000
>>>>
>>>> but not
>>>>
>>>> juju action do network-qos delay.non-existant-option=True
>>>>
>>>> Marco
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Feb 4, 2016 at 3:34 PM Tom Barber <tom at analytical-labs.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Alright then chaps.
>>>>>
>>>>> I want to create an action with a parameter that may or may not exist
>>>>> plus you might define it more than once.
>>>>>
>>>>> I see in the actions doc some stuff about aditional properties which
>>>>> may or maynot be relevant. Can i pass in an array of objects of the same
>>>>> type so my bash script can iterate over them and build my required string?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks
>>>>>
>>>>> Tom
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