Feature #12512

stdlib: dashboard_json function

Added by Nan Liu 3 months ago. Updated about 1 month ago.

Status:Rejected Start date:02/08/2012
Priority:Normal Due date:
Assignee:- % Done:

0%
Category:function
Target version:never released
Keywords: Branch:
Votes: 0

Description

Dashboard currently doesn’t support complex data, so we should have a function that will support array/hash in dashboard until a solution is provided in puppet dashboard/console. The full motivation is explained:

https://docs.google.com/a/puppetlabs.com/document/d/1dj1DihVzwfHkDfyuYc54fK15Fzrmfa5mX3psFl6ki64/edit?hl=en_US

History

#1
Updated by Daniel Pittman 3 months ago

  • Status changed from Investigating to Rejected

This is a terrible way to achieve any handling of complex data in Dashboard. It puts all the burden on the user to write correct JSON, and to deal with the complexity of a poor representation of that on output.

It also seems likely that it masks at least one Dashboard bug, since you should be able to obtain arbitrary strings from fields on the Dashboard side, without needing to understand some special escaping protocol or anything like that.

Fixing Dashboard to handle structured data is fine. This isn’t.

#2
Updated by Jeff McCune about 1 month ago

  • Project changed from Puppet Labs Modules to Standard Library

#3
Updated by Jeff McCune about 1 month ago

  • Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
  • Description updated (diff)
  • Category set to function
  • Target version set to stdlib 2.4.x

#4
Updated by Jeff McCune about 1 month ago

  • Target version changed from stdlib 2.4.x to not yet targeted

Setting to “never release” since this was rejected.

#5
Updated by Jeff McCune about 1 month ago

  • Target version changed from not yet targeted to never released

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