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.

---------

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

.github/workflows/telegraf.yml

@@ -27,49 +27,46 @@ jobs:
       fail-fast: false
       matrix:
         molecule_distro:
-          # - container: rocky8
-          #   image: geerlingguy/docker-rockylinux8-ansible
+          - container: rocky8
+            image: geerlingguy/docker-rockylinux8-ansible
           - container: rocky9
             image: geerlingguy/docker-rockylinux9-ansible
           - container: ubuntu2204
             image: geerlingguy/docker-ubuntu2204-ansible:latest
           - container: ubuntu2004
             image: geerlingguy/docker-ubuntu2004-ansible:latest
-          # - container: ubuntu1804
-          #   image: geerlingguy/docker-ubuntu1804-ansible:latest
+          - container: ubuntu1804
+            image: geerlingguy/docker-ubuntu1804-ansible:latest
           - container: debian10
             image: geerlingguy/docker-debian10-ansible:latest
           - container: debian11
             image: geerlingguy/docker-debian11-ansible:latest
     steps:
       - name: Check out code
-        uses: actions/checkout@v4
+        uses: actions/checkout@v1
 
       - name: Set up Python 3.11
-        uses: actions/setup-python@v5
+        uses: actions/setup-python@v1
         with:
-          python-version: 3.11.11
+          python-version: 3.11.10
 
-      # - name: Install dependencies
-      #   run: |
-      #     python -m pip install --upgrade pip
-      #     pip install -r requirements.txt
-
-      - name: Install test dependencies.
-        run: pip3 install ansible molecule molecule-plugins[docker] docker pytest testinfra
+      - name: Install dependencies
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install -r requirements.txt
 
       - name: Run role tests on empty systems in check-mode
-        env:
-          MY_MOLECULE_CONTAINER: ${{ matrix.molecule_distro.container }}
-          MY_MOLECULE_IMAGE: ${{ matrix.molecule_distro.image }}
-          MY_MOLECULE_GROUP: ${{ matrix.molecule_distro.group }}
-          MY_MOLECULE_DOCKER_COMMAND: ${{ matrix.molecule_distro.command }}
-        run: molecule test -s empty-checkmode
+        run: >-
+          MY_MOLECULE_CONTAINER=${{ matrix.molecule_distro.container }}
+          MY_MOLECULE_IMAGE=${{ matrix.molecule_distro.image }}
+          MY_MOLECULE_GROUP=${{ matrix.molecule_distro.group }}
+          MY_MOLECULE_DOCKER_COMMAND=${{ matrix.molecule_distro.command }}
+          molecule test -s empty-checkmode
 
       - name: Run role tests
-        env:
-          MY_MOLECULE_CONTAINER: ${{ matrix.molecule_distro.container }}
-          MY_MOLECULE_IMAGE: ${{ matrix.molecule_distro.image }}
-          MY_MOLECULE_GROUP: ${{ matrix.molecule_distro.group }}
-          MY_MOLECULE_DOCKER_COMMAND: ${{ matrix.molecule_distro.command }}
-        run: molecule test
+        run: >-
+          MY_MOLECULE_CONTAINER=${{ matrix.molecule_distro.container }}
+          MY_MOLECULE_IMAGE=${{ matrix.molecule_distro.image }}
+          MY_MOLECULE_GROUP=${{ matrix.molecule_distro.group }}
+          MY_MOLECULE_DOCKER_COMMAND=${{ matrix.molecule_distro.command }}
+          molecule test

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

molecule/default/converge.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
 - hosts: telegraf
   roles:
-    - role: ../../ansible-telegraf
+    - role: ansible-telegraf

molecule/empty-checkmode/converge.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
 ---
 - hosts: telegraf
   roles:
-    - role: ../../../ansible-telegraf
+    - role: ansible-telegraf

requirements.txt

@@ -1,11 +1,11 @@
-ansible==11.2.0
-ansible-compat==25.1.2
-ansible-core==2.18.2
+ansible==9.7.0
+ansible-compat==24.10.0
+ansible-core==2.18.1
 docker==7.1.0
-molecule==25.2.0
+molecule==6.0.3
 molecule-docker==2.1.0
-molecule-plugins==23.7.0
+molecule-plugins==23.5.3
 netaddr==1.3.0
-pytest==8.3.4
+pytest==8.3.3
 pytest-testinfra==10.1.1
 testinfra==6.0.0

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 %}