Programmable Test Procedures

A guide to implementing Programmable Test Procedures to valiidate customer configuration.

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Programmable Test Procedures enable you to run an arbitrary containers to validate the same input from the configuration screen and show a friendly error message to the end-user. You can use runtime configuration as input to your container command and capture the result code and message and format it for display to the end-user.

Example

The following example will check the validity of the password entered by the end-user. The test_proc.custom_command property of the YAML will instruct Replicated to run a container defined in the components section of the YAML. The test_proc.results property can be used to interpret output from the container and format any errors for display to the end-user.

config:
- name: credentials
  title: Credentials
  items:
  - name: password
    title: Password
    type: password
    test_proc:
      display_name: Check Password Strength
      run_on_save: true
      custom_command:
        id: scheduler
        timeout: 15
        data:
          replicated: # this section is scheduler specific
            component: password-checker
            container: debian
      results:
      - status: success
        message: Success!
        condition:
          status_code: 0
          error: false
      - status: error
        message:
          default_message: '{{.result}}'
          args:
            result: '{{repl .Result }}'
        condition:
          status_code: 123 # custom exit code from the container command
      - status: error # this is a catch-all case
        message:
          default_message: '{{if .error}}{{.error}}{{else}}{{.result}}{{end}}'
          args:
            error: '{{repl .Error }}'
            result: '{{repl .Result }}'
components:
- name: password-checker
  containers:
  - source: public
    image_name: debian
    version: stretch
    when: false # indicate to Replicated that it should not run this container as part of your startup sequence
    cmd: '["/password-strength.sh", "{{repl ConfigOption \"password\"}}"]'
    config_files:
    - filename: /password-strength.sh
      file_mode: "0777"
      contents: |
        #!/bin/sh
        if [ "${#1}" -lt 8 ]; then
          echo "Password must be at least 8 characters long"
          exit 123
        fi

Password Fields

The server will never return the plain text value of fields of type password back to the frontend. In order to make password fields work with Programmable Test Procs the password field names must be included in the property arg_fields when using a Test Proc nested under a Config Group. This behavior is implicit when a Test Proc is nested under a Config Item like in the example above. See below for an example. Note the “password” item in the list test_proc.arg_fields.

config:
- name: credentials
  title: Credentials
  test_proc:
    display_name: Check Credentials
    run_on_save: true
    arg_fields:
    - password
    custom_command:
      id: scheduler
      timeout: 15
      data:
        replicated: # this section is scheduler specific
          component: credentials-checker
          container: debian
    results:
    - status: success
      message: Success!
      condition:
        status_code: 0
        error: false
    - status: error
      message:
        default_message: '{{.result}}'
        args:
          result: '{{repl .Result }}'
      condition:
        status_code: 123 # custom exit code from the container command
    - status: error # this is a catch-all case
      message:
        default_message: '{{if .error}}{{.error}}{{else}}{{.result}}{{end}}'
        args:
          error: '{{repl .Error }}'
          result: '{{repl .Result }}'
  items:
  - name: username
    title: Username
    type: text
  - name: password
    title: Password
    type: password

Resource Specification

Programmable Test Procedures are represented with the following properties.

TestProc

The test_proc resource is a sub-resource of a config group or item. When specified, a button will be present inline with the form. The custom validation will be run when clicking the button and optionally on save.

Name	Type	Required	Description
display_name	string	yes	The text to show in the button in the ui.
run_on_save	string or boolean	no	When true this test will run on saving the configuration.
timeout	int	no	Timeout in seconds, default 15 seconds, -1 denotes no timeout
when	string	no	Will determine if the test procedure is runnable (evaluated to a boolean value)
arg_fields	[]string	no	A list of config item names for which to pass values to the test procedure. This is required for password fields.
custom_command	Command	yes	The command that will be run
results	array of [Result]	yes	An array of result objects that when evaluated will determine success or failure

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Password Fields

Resource Specification

TestProc