[dev.icinga.com #13054] API filters with custom attributes problem

[icinga-migration]

This issue has been migrated from Redmine: https://dev.icinga.com/issues/13054

Created by moritz on 2016-11-05 15:25:25 +00:00

Assignee: (none)
Status: New (closed on 2016-11-07 07:13:50 +00:00)
Target Version: (none)
Last Update: 2016-11-25 14:28:22 +00:00 (in Redmine)

Icinga Version: 2.3.4
Backport?: Not yet backported
Include in Changelog: 1

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Some of our hosts have custom variables that are arrays, and I've tried to create a downtime for a all hosts that have a particular string as element in such a variable. There doesn't seem to be a way to do that, and if there is, then that documentation at http://docs.icinga.org/icinga2/latest/doc/module/icinga2/chapter/icinga2-api fails to mention it.

Things I have tried:

• filter="thestring" in host.vars.thevariable, inspired by the example filter="linux-servers" in host.groups in the API docs. Result: no downtime created.
• filter=match("thestring",host.vars.thevariable). Result: No downtime created
• filter=match("*thestring*",host.vars.thevariable). Result: Hosts where host.vars.thevariable contain "thestringbutlonger" also get the downtime created.

[icinga-migration]

Updated by gbeutner on 2016-11-07 07:13:50 +00:00

• Status changed from New to Rejected

The 'in' operator can be used to check whether a certain item is contained within an array.

[icinga-migration]

Updated by mfriedrich on 2016-11-25 14:28:23 +00:00

• Subject changed from The API doesn't seem to allow filtering by element membership in a list to API filters with custom attributes problem
• Status changed from Rejected to New

[dnsmichi]

The match() functionality for arrays has been added in 2.7.0 ( #5264 ).