Updated CHANGELOG.md on "2025-02-07 17:54:47"

* Support for sub_inputs in extra plugins

* fix: properly handle lists as TOML arrays

- Updated the Jinja template to detect and serialize lists using |to_json,
  ensuring Telegraf interprets them correctly (e.g. names = ["item1","item2"]).
- Removed fallback logic for single items, so we consistently treat all sub_input
  values as lists of dictionaries.

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Co-authored-by: Michał Lisowski <mlisowski@sentient.ie>

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 
 **Merged pull requests:**
 
+- Better sub inputs handling [\#193](https://github.com/dj-wasabi/ansible-telegraf/pull/193) ([lisuml](https://github.com/lisuml))
 - Bump ansible-core from 2.18.0 to 2.18.1 [\#192](https://github.com/dj-wasabi/ansible-telegraf/pull/192) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
 - Bump ansible-core from 2.16.8 to 2.18.0 [\#191](https://github.com/dj-wasabi/ansible-telegraf/pull/191) ([dependabot[bot]](https://github.com/apps/dependabot))
 
@@ -181,7 +182,6 @@
 - Some changes for fixing FreeBSD [\#101](https://github.com/dj-wasabi/ansible-telegraf/pull/101) ([dj-wasabi](https://github.com/dj-wasabi))
 - basic FreeBSD support [\#100](https://github.com/dj-wasabi/ansible-telegraf/pull/100) ([langerma](https://github.com/langerma))
 - Added the use\_proxy argument to use a proxy \(or not\) [\#98](https://github.com/dj-wasabi/ansible-telegraf/pull/98) ([dj-wasabi](https://github.com/dj-wasabi))
-- Various small changes for molecule [\#97](https://github.com/dj-wasabi/ansible-telegraf/pull/97) ([dj-wasabi](https://github.com/dj-wasabi))
 
 ## [0.12.0](https://github.com/dj-wasabi/ansible-telegraf/tree/0.12.0) (2019-03-12)
 
@@ -197,6 +197,7 @@
 
 **Merged pull requests:**
 
+- Various small changes for molecule [\#97](https://github.com/dj-wasabi/ansible-telegraf/pull/97) ([dj-wasabi](https://github.com/dj-wasabi))
 - Add processors section in Telegraf config [\#94](https://github.com/dj-wasabi/ansible-telegraf/pull/94) ([ph4r5h4d](https://github.com/ph4r5h4d))
 - Updated to Telegraf 1.10.0;Different installation methods [\#93](https://github.com/dj-wasabi/ansible-telegraf/pull/93) ([dj-wasabi](https://github.com/dj-wasabi))
 - Updating Telegraf default to 1.9.5 [\#92](https://github.com/dj-wasabi/ansible-telegraf/pull/92) ([sdurrheimer](https://github.com/sdurrheimer))

README.md

@@ -342,13 +342,13 @@ sqs:
     - statistic_include = ["average"]
   sub_inputs:
     metrics:
-      - names = [
+      - names: [
           "ApproximateAgeOfOldestMessage",
           "ApproximateNumberOfMessagesVisible",
         ]
     metrics.dimensions:
-      - name = "QueueName"
-      - value = "*"
+      - name: "QueueName"
+        value: "*"
 ```
 
 ## Dependencies

templates/telegraf-extra-plugin.conf.j2

@@ -56,10 +56,16 @@
 {% endfor %}
 {% endif %}
 {% if item.value.sub_inputs is defined and item.value.sub_inputs is iterable %}
-{% for sub_input, config in item.value.sub_inputs.items() %}
-[[inputs.{{ item.value.plugin | default(item.key) }}.{{ sub_input }}]]
-{% for items in config %}
-    {{ items }}
+{% for sub_input_key, sub_input_list in item.value.sub_inputs.items() %}
+{% for block in sub_input_list %}
+[[inputs.{{ item.value.plugin | default(item.key) }}.{{ sub_input_key }}]]
+{% for param_key, param_value in block.items() %}
+{% if param_value is sequence and param_value is not string %}
+    {{ param_key }} = {{ param_value | to_json }}
+{% else %}
+    {{ param_key }} = "{{ param_value }}"
+{% endif %}
+{% endfor %}
 {% endfor %}
 {% endfor %}
 {% endif %}