Using lists as parameters

[StephanSST]

Hi there
Thanks for providing Monaco. I think its a great tool that helps us syncing configurations over environments. It also shows us where we can optimize configurationes. So great job, please keep on doing it!

Right now we have an issue with email notifications: The receivers of a notification is a List of Strings (string[]) on the API. We would like to parametrize them but we failed. How is the correct syntax for lists?

The json looks like this:

 "name": "{{.name}}",
 "active": true,
 "alertingProfile": "{{.alertingProfileId}}",
 "body": "{{.body}}",
 "receivers": [
  "{{.receiver}}"
 ],
 "subject": "{{.subject}}",
 "type": "EMAIL"
}

But how can I add them in the notfication.yaml. I failed with these examples:

- receiver: "[email protected]" two receivers splitted on two lines, so together with seconds line
- receiver: "[email protected]" -> only adding second email
- receiver: "[email protected]", "[email protected]" -> Failed to unmarshal yaml
- receiver: "{[email protected], [email protected]}" -> Failed to unmarshal yaml
- receiver: "[[email protected], [email protected]]" -> Failed to unmarshal yaml
- receiver: 
    - "[email protected]"
    - "[email protected]" -> notification.yaml could not be parsed: cannot convert YAML
- receiver: "[ "[email protected]", "[email protected]" ]" -> Failed to unmarshal yaml
- receiver: [ "[email protected]", "[email protected]" ] -> notification.yaml could not be parsed: cannot convert YAML

Is it possible using lists as parameters? Did anybody ever tried this?

Kind regards and thanks for trying to help!
Stephan

[didiladi]

Hi @StephanSST! Thanks for the kind words about monaco 🙂

We currently just support plain strings passed in the template. Try the following in the yaml (wrapping the list of all addresses in single quotes(')):

email:
  - receiver: '"[email protected]", "[email protected]"'

[StephanSST]

Hi Dieter
I tried your tip but it's not working. I still get an error:

2021-11-29 09:34:24 ERROR       File did not contain valid json:
 --> .\template\notification\EMail.json:7:6
   |  "receivers": [
 7 |   " "[email protected]", "[email protected]" "
   |      ^^^
   - Cause: invalid character 'p' after array element
2021-11-29 09:34:24 ERROR Errors during deployment! Check log!

But with your tip and the error message I assumed that the double quote (") sign at the beginning and at the end is constant so I just removed them and tried this new option:

- receiver: [email protected]", "[email protected]

and it worked. It looks pretty strange but now I get two email receivers in my alert notification. So thank you very much for your fast reply. Your answer brought me to the right path.

Kind regards,
Stephan

[didiladi]

Hi, yes, you are right. This is one option - I just checked again. We have the following in our json:

    "receivers": [
        {{ .receivers }}
    ],

We omit the double quote (") in the json - then it works as well.

You could also try to combine the two methods:

yaml:
- receiver: "[email protected]", "[email protected]"

json:
    "receivers": [
        {{ .receivers }}
    ],