I’m trying to get a script built. I want to check if a variable exist and include it if it does. Just really struggling to figure out the formatting. Something like

script:
  sequence:
    target:
      entity_id: "{{ entity }}"
    {% if variable is defined %}
      data: "{{ variable }}"
    {% endif %}
  • Otkaz@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
    2·
    1 year ago

    To give more context I’m working on a media control dashboard. The script or rather scripts I have to send commands to kodi is as follows

    kodi_control:
  sequence:
  - service: kodi.call_method
    target:
      entity_id: '{{ kodi_entity }}'
    data:
      method: '{{ kodi_method }}'

kodi_control_playback:
  sequence:
  - service: kodi.call_method
    target:
      entity_id: '{{ kodi_entity }}'
    data:
      method: '{{ kodi_method }}'
      playerid: '{{ kodi_playerid }}'

kodi_control_subtitles:
  sequence:
  - service: kodi.call_method
    target:
      entity_id: '{{ kodi_entity }}'
    data:
      method: '{{ kodi_method }}'
      action: '{{ kodi_action }}'

kodi_control_seek:
  sequence:
  - service: kodi.call_method
    target:
      entity_id: '{{ kodi_entity }}'
    data:
      method: '{{ kodi_method }}'
      playerid: '{{ kodi_playerid }}'
      value: '{{ kodi_value }}'

kodi_control_playlist:
  sequence:
  - service: kodi.call_method
    target:
      entity_id: '{{ kodi_entity }}'
    data:
      method: '{{ kodi_method }}'
      window: '{{ kodi_window }}'
      parameters: '{{ [ kodi_parameters ] }}'

    I would like to condense all of this down to a single script using “is defined” to omit the parts not needed for certain commands so something like

    kodi_control:
  sequence:
  - service: kodi.call_method
    target:
      entity_id: '{{ kodi_entity }}'
    data: >-
      method: '{{ kodi_method }}'
      {% if kodi_playerid is defined %}
        playerid: '{{ kodi_playerid }}'
      {% endif %}
      {% if kodi_action is defined %}
        action: '{{ kodi_action }}'
      {% endif %}
      {% if kodi_value is defined %}
        value: '{{ kodi_value }}'
      {% endif %}
      {% if kodi_window is defined %}
        window: '{{ kodi_window }}'
      {% endif %}
      {% if kodi_parameters is defined %}
        parameters: '{{ [ kodi_parameters ] }}'
      {% endif %}

    Problem with the above is I get “result is not a dictionary”

    • bob_wiley@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      Ok, I think I got you. With your current setup, you’re not going to get the proper data structure, as it’s going to return all your key/value pairs as one big string. What you need to do here is create your empty dictionary, then add the key/value pairs, based on your logic, then return the resulting dictionary at the end.

      Something like this…

      kodi_control:
sequence:
- service: kodi.call_method
  target:
    entity_id: '{{ kodi_entity }}'
  data: >-
    {% set my_dict = {} %}
    {% set x=my_dict.__setitem__("method", {{ kodi_method }}) %}
    {% if kodi_playerid is defined %}
      {% set x=my_dict.__setitem__("playerid", {{ kodi_playerid }}) %}
    {% endif %}
    {% if kodi_action is defined %}
      {% set x=my_dict.__setitem__("action", {{ kodi_action }}) %}
    {% endif %}
    {% if kodi_value is defined %}
      {% set x=my_dict.__setitem__("value", {{ kodi_value }}) %}
    {% endif %}
    {% if kodi_window is defined %}
      {% set x=my_dict.__setitem__("window", {{ kodi_window }}) %}
    {% endif %}
    {% if kodi_parameters is defined %}
      {% set x=my_dict.__setitem__("parameters", {{ [ kodi_parameters ] }}) %}
    {% endif %}
    {{ my_dict }}