TriggerTemplate unable to use JSON array as parameter

[jangel97]

Hi,

I am trying to trigger the creation of VMs using a tekton pipeline. The idea is that there is an eventlistener which receives a HTTP POST request with the data required for the provisioning.

This is an example of the JSON payload that I need to pass to the pipelinerun:

{
  "systems": [
    {
      "name": "vm1webserver",
      "os": "RHEL9",
      "vm size": "small",
      "network": "default",
      "namespace": "vm-webservers"
    },
    {
      "name": "vm2webserver",
      "os": "RHEL9",
      "vm size": "small",
      "network": "default",
      "namespace": "vm-webservers"
    },
  ]
}

I am unable to achieve to read an object parameter using TriggerTemplate

My tekton triggers look like this:

---
apiVersion: triggers.tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: TriggerBinding
metadata:
  name: provisioning-pipelinebinding
  namespace: tekton-vm-provisioning-pipeline
spec:
  params:
    - name: systems
      value: $(body.systems)
---
apiVersion: triggers.tekton.dev/v1alpha1
kind: TriggerTemplate
metadata:
  name: provisioning-automation-tt
  namespace: tekton-vm-provisioning-pipeline
  annotations:
    triggers.tekton.dev/old-escape-quotes: "true"
spec:
  params:
    - name: systems
  resourcetemplates:
    - apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
      kind: PipelineRun
      metadata:
        generateName: tekton-vm-provisioning-pipeline-
        labels:
          tekton.dev/pipeline: tekton-vm-provisioning-pipeline
        namespace: tekton-vm-provisioning-pipeline
      spec:
        params:
          - name: systems
            value: $(tt.params.systems)
        pipelineRef:
          name: vm-provisioning
        workspaces:
          - name: shared-workspace
            volumeClaimTemplate:
              metadata:
                annotations:
                  kubernetes.io/reclaimPolicy: Delete
                labels: {}
                name: ws-pvc
              spec:
                accessModes:
                  - ReadWriteMany
                resources:
                  requests:
                    storage: 500Mi
                storageClassName: managed-nfs-storage

My tekton pipeline:

---
apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
kind: Pipeline
metadata:
  name: vm-provisioning
spec:
  params:
    - name: systems
      type: array
  workspaces:
    - name: shared-workspace
  tasks:
    - name: get-cluster-info
      taskRef:
        name: get-cluster-info
      params:
        - name: names
          value: '$(params.systems[*])'
      workspaces:
        - name: source
          workspace: shared-workspace

When spawning pipeline I see following error:

PipelineRun tekton-vm-provisioning-pipeline/tekton-vm-provisioning-pipeline-jkv5k parameters have mismatching types with Pipeline tekton-vm-provisioning-pipeline/vm-provisioning's parameters: parameters have inconsistent types : [systems]

Is this supported in tekton?

Thanks,

[jangel97]

I tried to parse JSON payload as string, and then use jq in the task to read json payload, I was not successful. Did anyone successfully achieved this?

[savitaashture]

Something similar ask here #893

[savitaashture]

Its not supported today
But its a good feature to add

[arjunsbabu43]

This is a much needed feature. Its very hard to fetch each parameter from a json payload.
In Jenkins we had something like multi line parameter. Not sure why ChatGpt is saying there is a type json.

[dibyom]

hey @arjunsbabu43 Tekton pipelines does support object parameters as a beta feature but we have yet to build support for that in Triggers.

[CPinhoK]

+1 for this feature

[aw185176]

Its not supported today
But its a good feature to add

This is much more than a good feature to add... at this point the triggers project is not compatible with the pipelines project at a fundamental level.

[dibyom]

@khrm @savitaashture let's consider this for the next milestone?

[arjunsbabu43]

Thank you, @dibyom. Do you have any information on the anticipated release date for Triggers v0.25?

[khrm]

A workaround for this is using CEL interceptor.
Something like this:

        - ref:
            name: "cel"
          params:
            - name: "overlays"
              value:
                - key: list
                  expression: "body.list.marshalJSON()"
      bindings:
      - name: list
        value: $(extensions.list)
      template:
        spec:
          params:
            - name: list
          resourcetemplates:
            - apiVersion: tekton.dev/v1beta1
              kind: TaskRun
              metadata:
                generateName: cel-trig-
              spec:
                taskSpec:
                  steps:
                  - image: ubuntu
                    script: |
                      #!/usr/bin/env bash
                      echo "SHA is : $(tt.params.list)"

[arjunsbabu43]

Thanks @khrm will have a try and will let you know the results

[khrm]

I will add the workaround to the docs in this release.

[savitaashture]

@khrm will create a PR with workaround in the doc for now as we are moving this issue to next milestone