vars

Synopsis

HADeploy allow you to defined variable which then will be substituted by surrounding the variable name with "${ "and "}" (or '<<' and '>>', see below).

There is also a method to provide variable definition on the command line when launching HADeploy. See Launching HADeploy.

Attributes

Attributes are variables name.

As demonstrated by the app_jar_url: in example below, entry, variable value can themself include other variable.

Note also than variable can be a scalar (String, int, etc...) but also a map.

Example

vars:
  app_version: "0.1.1"
  repository_server: "myserver.com"
  app_jar_url: "http://${repository_server}/repo/broadapp-${app_version}.jar"
  zookeeper:
    connection_timeout: 60000
    zkpath: /broadapp

Alternate notation

HADeploy added an alternate notation for variable by using '<<' and '>>'. This notation is mainly intended to be used in 'flow style' description. For example:

files:
- {  when: <<isKerberos>>, scope: all, dest_folder: "/etc/security/keytabs", src= "${appUser}.keytab" owner: "${appUser}", group: broadgroup, mode: "0400" }

If we where using when: ${isKerberos}, this will generate an error as the opening { will be confused with the start of the map delimiter.

The solution could be to write when: "${isKerberos}". This will be parsed correctly, but the side effect will be to consider the variable as a String, not as a Boolean. Thus generating an error in this case (when: require a boolean).

So, to allow usage of non-String variable in 'flow style' notation, the <<....>> delimiters as been implemented. Of course, as in the previous example, both notation can be used simultaneously.