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On 11/27/2013 04:56 PM, Zane Bitter wrote:
> On 27/11/13 19:57, Jay Pipes wrote:
>>
>> Actually, even simpler than that...
>>
>> parameters:
>>    db:
>>     - db_name:
>>       description: blah
>>       help: blah
>>     - db_username:
>>       description: blah
>>       help: blah
>>
>> After all, can't we assume that if the parameter value is a list, then
>> it is a group of parameters?
>
> This resolves to a fairly weird construct:
>
> {
>    "parameters": {
>      "db": [
>        {
>          "db_name": null,
>          "description": "blah",
>          "help": "blah"
>        },
>        {
>          "description": "blah",
>          "db_username": null,
>          "help": "blah"
>        }
>      ]
>    }
> }
>
> so the name is whichever key has a data value of null (what if there's
> more than one?), and obviously it can't collide with any keywords like
> "description" or "help".

I think I was going for more of the YAML that would resolve to this:

{
"parameters": {
  "db": [
   {
    "db_name": {
     "description": "blah",
     "help": "blah"
    }
   },
   {
    "db_username": {
     "description": "blah",
     "help": "blah"
    }
   },
  ]
}

Best,
-jay