Expression Functions

TOSCA functions and other stand-alone functions

Stand-alone functions don’t need to be wrapped in an “eval”

Key

Value

concat

[ string* ]

get_artifact

[ instance_name, artifact_name]

get_attribute

[ instance_name, req_or_cap_name?, property_name, index_or_key* ]

get_env

[ name, default? return ] | name

get_input

name

get_nodes_of_type

type_name

get_property

[ instance_name, req_or_cap_name?, property_name, index_or_key* ]

has_env

name

join

[ string+, delimiter? ]

q

any

token

[ string, token, index]

concat

The concat function is used to concatenate two or more string values. See concat. concat can optionally take a sep keyword argument the specifies as a string the separator to use when joining the list.

get_artifact

The get_artifact function is used to retrieve artifact location between modelable entities defined in the same service template.

If the artifact is a Docker image, return the image name in the form of “registry/repository/name:tag” or “registry/repository/name@sha256:digest”

If entity_name or artifact_name is not found return null.

See get_artifact.

get_attribute

The get_attribute function is used to retrieve the values of named attributes declared by the referenced node or relationship template name. See TOSCA Attribute Functions.

get_env

Returns the value of the given environment variable name. If NAME is not present in the environment, return the given default value if supplied or return None.

e.g. {get_env: NAME} or {get_env: [NAME, default]}

If the value of its argument is empty (e.g. [] or null), return the entire dictionary.

get_input

The get_input function is used to retrieve the values of properties declared within the inputs section of a TOSCA Service Template. See TOSCA Property Functions

get_nodes_of_type

The get_nodes_of_type function can be used to retrieve a list of all known instances of nodes of the declared Node Type.

get_property

The get_property function is used to retrieve property values between modelable entities defined in the same service template. See TOSCA Property Functions

has_env

The has_env function returns a boolean indicating whether the given variable is found in the current environment.

join

The join function is used to join an array of strings into a single string with optional delimiter. See

q

Quote the given value without evaluating it. For example:

q:
  eval:
     this will not be evaluated

Will evaluate to:

eval:
   this will not be evaluated

without any further evaluation.

token

The token function is used on a string to parse out (tokenize) substrings separated by one or more token characters within a larger string.

Expression Functions

Key

Value

abspath

path | [path, location, mkdir?]

and

[test+]

eq

[a, b]

external

name

file

(see below)

foreach

{key?, value?}

get_dir

location | [location, mkdir?]

is_function_defined

function name

if

(see below)

local

name

lookup

(see below)

or

[test+]

not

expr

python

path#function_name | module.function_name

secret

name

sensitive

any

tempfile

(see below)

template

contents

to_dns_label

string or map or lists

to_googlecloud_label

string or map or list

to_kubernetes_label

string or map or list

to_label

string or map or list

urljoin

[scheme, host, port?, path?, query?, fragment?]

validate

[contents, schema]

abspath

path

A file path

location

(optional) A named folder (see get_dir)

mkdir

(default: false) If true, create the folder if missing.

Get the absolute path to the given path. If location is supplied it will be relative to that location (see get_dir) otherwise it will be relative to the current directory.

Also available as a jinja2 filter.

and

Evaluates each expression in the list until an expression evaluates as false and returns the result of the last expression evaluated.

eq

external

Return an instance

file

Read or write a file. If the contents keyword argument is present, a file will be written upon evaluation of this function, otherwise it will be read.

# read
eval:
  file: foo/local.config
select: contents

# write
eval:
  file: path.txt.vault
  contents: "this will be saved as a vault encrypted file"
  encoding: vault
select: path

Key

Value

file:

path

dir?:

path

encoding?

“binary” | “vault” | “json” | “yaml” | “env” | python_text_encoding

contents?

any

encoding can be “binary”, “vault”, “json”, “yaml”, “env” or an encoding registered with the Python codec registry

The select clause can evaluate the following keys:

Key

Returns

path:

absolute path of the file

encoding

encoding of the file

contents?

file contents (None if it doesn’t exist)

foreach

get_dir

location

a named folder

mkdir

(default: false) If true, create the folder if missing.

Return an absolute path to the given named folder where name is one of:

.

Directory that contains the current instance’s ensemble

src

Directory of the source file this expression appears in

artifacts

Directory for the current instance (committed to repository).

local

The “local” directory for the current instance (excluded from repository)

secrets

The “secrets” directory for the current instance (files written there are vault encrypted when committed to the repository)

tmp

A temporary directory for the instance (removed after unfurl exits)

tasks

Job specific directory for the current instance (excluded from repository).

operation

Operation specific directory for the current instance (excluded from repository).

workflow

Workflow specific directory for the current instance (excluded from repository).

spec.src

The directory of the source file the current instance’s template appears in.

spec.home

Directory unique to current instance’s TOSCA template (committed to the spec repository).

spec.local

Local directory unique to current instance’s TOSCA template (excluded from repository).

project

The root directory of the current project.

unfurl.home

The location of home project (UNFURL_HOME).

Otherwise look for a repository with the given name and return its path or None if not found.

Also available as a jinja2 filter.

if

Key

Value

if

mapped_value

then?

expr

else?

expr

Example: this will always evaluate to “expected”:

eval:
  if:
    or:
      - not: $a
      - $a
  then: expected
  else: unexpected
vars:
  a: true

is_function_defined

function

function name of a expression function

Evaluates to true if the given expression function is available. In the following example, the first expression returns true normally but false if a safe evaluation context. The second expression always returns false.

eval:
  is_function_defined: get_env

eval:
  is_function_defined: nope

lookup

Key

Value

lookup

{name: args, kwargs*: value}

eval:
  lookup:
    env: TEST_ENV

eval:
  lookup:
    env: [TEST_ENV, default]

eval:
  lookup:
    url: https://example.com/foo.txt
    validate_certs: true

local

or

Evaluates each item until an item evaluates as true, returns that value or false.

not

Evaluates the item and returns its negation.

python

Key

Value

python

path#function_name | module.function_name

args?

mapped_value

eval:
  python: path/to/src.py#func

# or:

eval:
  python: python_module.func

# with args:

eval:
  python: python_module.func
  args:   foo

Execute the given python function and evaluate to its return value. If the path to the python script is a relative path, it will be treated as relative to the current source file (ie. the template file that is invoking the expression). The function will being invoke the current RefContext as the first argument. If args is declared, its value will passed as a second argument to the function.

secret

Return the value of the given secret. It will be marked as sensitive.

sensitive

Mark the given value as sensitive.

tempfile

Create local, temporary file with the specified content. It will be deleted after unfurl process exits.

eval:
  tempfile: "contents"
  encoding: vault
  suffix: .json

Key

Value

tempfile

contents

encoding?

“binary” | “vault” | “json” | “yaml” | python_text_encoding

suffix?

If encoding isn’t specified, the file extension specified by suffix is used; if neither is specified, the encoding will be determined by the content, either utf8 text, binary or json or a 0 byte file if the content is null.

template

Evaluate file or inline contents as an Ansible-flavored Jinja2 template.

eval:
  template:
    path: path/to/template.j2
eval:
  template: >
    {%if testVar %}success{%else%}failed{%endif%}
vars:
  testVar: true

to_dns_label

Convert the given argument (see to_label for full description) to a DNS label (a label is the name separated by “.” in a domain name). The maximum length of each label is 63 characters and can include alphanumeric characters and hyphens but a domain name must not commence or end with a hyphen.

Invalid characters are replaced with “–“.

to_googlecloud_label

Convert the given argument (see to_label for full description) to a kubernetes label following the rules found here https://cloud.google.com/resource-manager/docs/creating-managing-labels#requirements

Invalid characters are replaced with “__”.

to_kubernetes_label

Convert the given argument (see to_label for full description) to a kubernetes label following the rules found here https://kubernetes.io/docs/concepts/overview/working-with-objects/labels/#syntax-and-character-set

Invalid characters are replaced with “__”.

to_label

Convert a string to a label with the constraints specified as keyword parameters defined in the table below. If given a dictionary, all keys and string values are converted. If give a list, to_label is applied to each item and concatenated using sep.

When given a list each item is truncated proportionally. The example below returns “longpr.name.suffi.RC” (“RC” is a digest of the original value, added when truncating to reduce the likelihood of duplicate name clashes.)

eval:
  to_label:
  - longprefix
  - name
  - suffix
  sep: .
  max: 20

This following example returns “X1_CONVERT”. digestlen is set to 0 to skip appending a digest.

eval:
  to_label: "1 convert me"
  replace: _
  max: 10
  case: upper
  digestlen: 0

Key

Value

allowed

Allowed characters. Regex character ranges and character classes. Defaults to “w” (equivalent to a-zA-Z0-9_)

replace

String Invalidate. Defaults to “” (remove the characters).

start

Allowed characters for the first character. Regex character ranges and character classes. Defaults to “a-zA-Z”

start_prepend

If the start character is invalid, prepend with this string (Default: “x”)

end

Allowed trailing characters. Regex character ranges and character classes. Invalid characters are removed if set.

max

Maximum length of label (Default: 63 (the maximum for a DNS name))

case

Case for label, one of “lower”, “upper”, “any” (no conversion) (Default: “any”)

sep

Separator to use when concatenating a list. (Default: “”)

digest

If present, append a short digest of derived from concatenating the label with this digest. If omitted, a digest is only appended when the label is truncated. (Default: null)

digestlen

If a digest is needed, the length of the digest to include in the label. 0 to disable. Default: 3 or 2 if max < 32

urljoin

Evaluate a list of url components to a relative or absolute URL, where the list is [scheme, host, port, path, query, fragment].

The list must have at least two items (scheme and host) present but if either or both are empty a relative or scheme-relative URL is generated. If all items are empty, null is returned. The path, query, and fragment items are url-escaped if present. Default ports (80 and 443 for http and https URLs respectively) are omitted even if specified – the following examples both evaluate to “http://localhost/path?query#fragment”:

eval:
  urljoin: [http, localhost, 80, path, query, fragment]

eval:
  urljoin: [http, localhost, "", path, query, fragment]

validate

Return true if the first argument conforms to the JSON schema supplied as the second argument.

Special keys

Built-in keys start with a leading .:

.

self

..

parent

.name

name of this instance

.type

name of instance’s TOSCA type

.tosca_id

unique id of this instance

.tosca_name

name of the instance’s TOSCA template

.status

the instance’s unfurl.support.Status

.state

the instance’s unfurl.support.NodeState

.parents

list of parents

.ancestors

self and parents

.root

root ancestor

.instances

child instances (via the HostedOn relationship)

.capabilities

list of capabilities

.requirements

list of requirements

.relationships

relationships that target this capability

.targets

map with requirement names as keys and target instances as values

.sources

map with requirement names as keys and source instances as values

.hosted_on

Follow .targets, filtering by the HostedOn relationship

.configured_by

Follow .sources, filtering by the Configures relationship

.descendants

(including self)

.all

dictionary of child resources with their names as keys