JSON data in script

[fading stump]

I am trying to abstract away sending a notification into a script. I have created some fields like message and title which work fine. But what I want to do is create a field in the script called data, which can capture JSON, and feed that into the notification action in the data attribute. This however does not work...

I've tried this for a while and I can't see how to do this. If I'm unable to do this i'll end up having to recreate every attribute as a field, which I don't want to do.

Any suggestions?

[mint willow]

I would expect that you'd be able to send JSON in as a string and use a template with from_json to turn it into an object

What did you try?

Or you can just pass an object directly into the script from somewhere else

[unreal jungle]

I pass json from calendar event descriptions into notifications all the time, so it definitely works... Post your config so we can see what's going on.

[mint willow]

Could just be malformed JSON. It's very picky

[fading stump]

Ill show you what I mean.

  - if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: "{{target == 'All' or 'Phone 1'}}"
    then:
      - action: notify.mobile_app_pixel_7_pro
        metadata: {}
        data:
          message: "{{ message }}"
          title: "{{ title }}"
          data:
            NEED THE ADDITIONAL SETTINGS HERE: false
fields:
  message:
    selector:
      text: null
    name: Message
    description: Message in the notification
    required: true
  title:
    selector:
      text: null
    name: Title
    description: The title of the message
    required: false
  additional_settings:
    selector:
      text:
        multiline: true
    name: Additional Settings
    required: false
  target:
    selector:
      select:
        options:
          - All
          - Phone 1
          - Phone 2
          - Tablet
    default: All
    required: true
alias: Send Notifications
description: Send a notification
icon: mdi:message-badge

So im literlaly tying to accept the data attribute as a field in the script. The fild being called additional_data

I have tried multiple methods, but either the template isnt creating correct YAML or its just being ignored.

Any ideas @unreal jungle ?

[mint willow]

What are the "multiple methods" that you've tried, and are you expecting the user to type/paste the JSON into that field? Those field definitions are just description for the user, they have no impact on the functionality of the script itself

Templates shouldn't be creating any YAML. You can just use the data from the data structure directly, for instance to template that entire data: block

it's looking for a dict, so if you pass in a field containing a dict, you can use it to populate that block

for instance:

test_notify:
  sequence:
    - action: script.test_send_notification
      data:
        input_dict:
          title: "Test Notification"
          message: "This is a test notification from Home Assistant"

test_send_notification:
  sequence:
    - action: notify.mobile_app_robs_iphone_15
      data: "{{ input_dict }}"

[sour zenith]

as an aside, note that this condition won't do what you want:

  - if:
      - condition: template
        value_template: "{{target == 'All' or 'Phone 1'}}"

that will only be true when target == 'All' because it is OR'ing the result of that comparison with the string 'Phone 1' which is falsey

you want this instead: "{{ target in ['All', 'Phone 1'] }}"

[fading stump]

Let me give it a test @mint willow. I see what you have done. I was approaching it differently. I was accepting title and message as indiviual fields and then the data seperatly, and then trying to reconstruct it.

Hence I was trying to create YAML via tmplates.

[mint willow]

You can still use separate fields and then just specify the value of each field using the variable you passed in for each field

This started as quite the XY problem

[brisk dune]

The XY problem is asking about your attempted solution rather than your actual problem.

[fading stump]

@mint willow - Ill give it a try, but Im sure I tried your soluton already. Let me give it another go.

[mint willow]

It just a standard use of passing variables into a script

[fading stump]

Fair point on the XY problem.

[mint willow]

Example in the docs: https://www.home-assistant.io/integrations/script/#passing-variables-to-scripts

[fading stump]

So i'm sure my input is wrong?

this is the script

    - if:
        - condition: template
          value_template: "{{target == 'All'}}"
      then:
        - action: notify.mobile_app_pixel_7_pro
          metadata: {}
          data:
            message: "{{ message }}"
            title: "{{ title }}"
            data: "{{ additional_data }}"```

I'm running it from the dev actions

OKay so this works

I suppose there no way to do it in the UI though is there

[mint willow]

Indeed. You didn't provide it in your first example

you can probably only specify individual fields there

[fading stump]

That's where I was going wrong. I was trying to do it via the UI, which was sending a string into the script.

Ive updated the field selector to "object" and now its rendering correctly! Horay

Thanks @mint willow for the guidence!

[fallen shale]

You should have used an object selector instead of a text selector