Puppet Dashboard, arrays and hashes

[Peter Berghold]

I have been using the Dashboard facility for assigning string values to keys with great glee.  It solves a number of support issues that I was dealing with in a very neat fashion.

I did a google search on "puppet dashboard arrays" and found that there had been some discussion about this and a feature request made but I didn't get the impression that there was ever a resolution.

Is there a way of encoding

$domains = {   "domain.tld" => { users => [ "tom" , "dick" , "harry" , "sally" },
                       "otherdomain.tld" => { users=> [ "spot", "jane", "dick"] }
}

from dashboard and if so how?



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Peter L. Berghold
Owner, Shark River Technical Solutions LLC

[Nan Liu]

Since dashboard only handles string, the only way I can think of is to
represent the array/hash data as yaml or json in dashboard and convert
the string back using a puppet function such as parsejson/parseyaml in
stdlib. At the moment, there's also additional escape characters
that's needs to be dealt with (a bug I think), so "[\"foo\"]" is
returned as "[\\\"foo\\\"]".

Thanks,

Nan

[Peter Berghold]

OK:  that was the impression I was under after reading everything that was posted to the feature request for this...

[Nan Liu]

On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 8:44 AM, Peter Berghold <salty....@gmail.com> wrote:
> OK:  that was the impression I was under after reading everything that was
> posted to the feature request for this...

Actually, I've mistakenly filed it as a bug. If you use json, you can
parse the parameter via parsejson available in stdlib:

In dashboard set the parameter example to ["foo", "bar"]

ENC output:
parameters:
example: "[\"foo\", \"bar\"]"

In puppet manifests:
$example_array = parsejson($example)
notify { $example_array : }

notice: /Stage[main]//Node[sample]/Notify[bar]/message: current_value
absent, should be bar (noop)
notice: /Stage[main]//Node[sample]/Notify[foo]/message: current_value
absent, should be foo (noop)

Thanks,

Nan

[Pablo Fernandez]

Hi,

I am actually interested in this... what is the actual status?

I would like to be able to have arrays and define them in the dashboard,
possibly filling parts of the array from different groups. Is it possible? How?

Thanks!
BR/Pablo