Re: stuck again...getvalues from datacontainer acting weird

nick,


i missinterpreted something here ...> 
https://docs.cfengine.com/docs/3.18/reference-promise-types-vars.html#some-useful-tips-for-using-data-containers

sorry...it was late 

wbr

chris


On Tuesday, November 30, 2021 at 4:59:57 PM UTC+1 Nick Anderson wrote:

> Xander Cage <[email protected]> writes: 
>
> hey, 
>>
>> again battling with basic things… 
>>
> nothing in default:parent_manage_aixtoolbox.DEBUG_pkg … why is this not 
>
> I find it very helpful to distill problems down into a small easily run 
> and reproducible policy and build up. 
>
> So, I took some of date from your data container to make a small mock …. 
>
> bundle agent __main__{
>    vars:
>       "my_data" data => '[{"package":"bash-5.0.18-1"},{"package":"bzip2-1.0.8-2"}]';
>       "my_data_values" slist => getvalues( my_data );
>
>    reports:
>       "CFEngine $(sys.cf_version)";}
>
> We can see that getvalues() on the data container returns the list of 
> *key* *values*. 
>
>
> R: CFEngine 3.19.0a.da01eaa81
> Variable name                            Variable value                                               Meta tags                                Comment                                 
> default:main.my_data                     [{"package":"bash-5.0.18-1"},{"package":"bzip2-1.0.8-2"}]    source=promise                                                                   
> default:main.my_data_values               {"bash-5.0.18-1","bzip2-1.0.8-2"}                           source=promise                                                                   
>
> You were trying to get values from the package key of the DEBUG_my_data 
> data container, but there is no package key, there is an array of 
> dictionaries where each dictionary has a package key. 
>
>
> "DEBUG_pkg" slist => getvalues("DEBUG_my_data[package]");
>
> You could get values from an numerical index, for example: 
>
> bundle agent __main__{
>    vars:
>       "my_data" data => '[{"package":"bash-5.0.18-1"},{"package":"bzip2-1.0.8-2"}]';
>       "my_data_values" slist => getvalues( "my_data[1]" );
>
>    reports:
>       "CFEngine $(sys.cf_version)";}
>
>
> R: CFEngine 3.19.0a.da01eaa81
> Variable name                            Variable value                                               Meta tags                                Comment                                 
> default:main.my_data                     [{"package":"bash-5.0.18-1"},{"package":"bzip2-1.0.8-2"}]    source=promise                                                                   
> default:main.my_data_values               {"bzip2-1.0.8-2"}                                           source=promise                                                                   
>
> Hope this helps … 
>

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