On 24/03/16 01:39, Rabi Mishra wrote:
On Wed, Mar 23, 2016 at 05:25:57PM +0300, Sergey Kraynev wrote:
    Hello,
    It looks similar on issue, which was discussed here [1]
    I suppose, that the root cause is incorrect using get_attr for your
    case.
    Probably you got "list"  instead of "string".
    F.e. if I do something similar:
    outputs:
      rg_1:
        value: {get_attr: [rg_a, rg_a_public_ip]}
      rg_2:
        value: {get_attr: [rg_a, rg_a_public_ip, 0]}

      rg_3:
        value: {get_attr: [rg_a]}
      rg_4:
        value: {get_attr: [rg_a, resource.0.rg_a_public_ip]}
    where rg_a is also resource group which uses custom template as
    resource.
    the custom template has output value rg_a_public_ip.
    The output for it looks like [2]
    So as you can see, that in first case (like it is used in your example),
    get_attr returns list with one element.
    rg_2 is also wrong, because it takes first symbol from sting with IP
    address.

Shouldn't rg_2 and rg_4 be equivalent?

They are the same for template version 2013-05-23. However, they behave 
differently
from the next  version(2014-10-16) onward and return a list of characters. I 
think
this is due to the fact that `get_attr` function mapping is changed from 
2014-10-16.


2013-05-23 -  
https://github.com/openstack/heat/blob/master/heat/engine/hot/template.py#L70
2014-10-16 -  
https://github.com/openstack/heat/blob/master/heat/engine/hot/template.py#L291

Correct. I think that's probably the source of confusion.

This makes me wonder why would a template author do something like
{get_attr: [rg_a, rg_a_public_ip, 0]} when he can easily do

This is why: https://bugs.launchpad.net/heat/+bug/1341048
You can do things with 2014-10-16 that aren't possible with 2013-05-23.

{get_attr: [rg_a, resource.0.rg_a_public_ip]} or {get_attr: [rg_a, resource.0, 
rg_a_public_ip]}
for specific resource atrributes.

Yep, these are the only correct ways of doing this in 2014-10-16 and up, and the first is the only efficient way of doing it in 2013-05-23 (note: the second way works only in 2014-10-16 and up).

I understand that {get_attr: [rg_a, rg_a_public_ip]} cane be useful when we 
just want to use
the list of attributes.

Indeed.

- ZB


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