with-items using jinja

[jpavlav]

Hey folks!

Ran into an interesting (what I thought was interesting) quandary when trying to use with-items with jinja. Specifically, the third example in this documentation:

https://docs.stackstorm.com/orquesta/languages/orquesta.html#with-items-model

shows how to name the items iterated over when designating with. However, it only shows how to do this in yaql. I'm curious if someone can provide an example of doing the same with jinja. I tried a bunch of different permutations, but never got it to work. Any help would be much appreciated.

TLDR; How to name items when using with-items and jinja templating?

[nzlosh]

You might be running into this issue StackStorm/orquesta#247

[jpavlav]

Ah interesting, though, the responses on this issue appear to actually answer the question I had, how to construct with-items using a name for the item:

tasks:
  echo_input:
    with: name in {{ ctx().names }}
    action: core.echo
    input:
      message: "Hello {{ item(name) }}"

Have yet to test, but the st2 workflow inspect command isn't complaining about it, so I suppose I'll find out.

[jpavlav]

Okay, looks like it does work, just needed to throw some quotes around name when it was consumed by the item function:

tasks:
  echo_input:
    with: name in {{ ctx().names }}
    action: core.echo
    input:
      message: "Hello {{ item('name') }}"

Thanks for the help!