Using /extras/config-templates/<id>/render/

[ed-ud]

From the example here:

https://netboxlabs.com/docs/netbox/en/stable/features/configuration-rendering/#general-purpose-use

... in the template, how do I access "foo" and "bar"?

With a template like:

Foo is {{ foo }}
Bar is {{ bar }}

... the values are empty.

-- Ed

[ed-ud]

Does anyone have a clue how to access the "context data" for this endpoint?

[candlerb]

Netbox version? Did you remember to include data in the POST to the API endpoint?

It works for me on 4.0.11 following the example.

# curl -X POST \
-H "Authorization: Token $TOKEN" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-H "Accept: application/json; indent=4" \
"$NETBOX/api/extras/config-templates/4/render/" \
--data '{
  "foo": "abc",
  "bar": 123
}'

Response:

{
    "configtemplate": {
        "id": 4,
        "url": "https://netbox.example.net/api/extras/config-templates/4/",
        "display": "Foo bar",
        "name": "Foo bar",
        "description": ""
    },
    "content": "Foo is abc\nBar is 123"
}

... and if you change the Accept header to Accept: text/plain then you get the raw result:

Foo is abc
Bar is 123

Content of template:

Foo is {{ foo }}
Bar is {{ bar }}

[ed-ud]

Thanks Brian! Oddly enough that worked for me too. My python program was failing to do the very same thing... but it turned out to be a "programmer error" and the data that was supposedly getting passed to the template was getting replaced before the actual requests.post() call ... DOH!