Draft: Ensure text interpolation preserves input type
What does this MR do and why?
In order to avoid indentation errors, text interpolation casts most input types to JSON before inserting them into the YAML content. However, casting strings to JSON adds quotes around them, which breaks interpolation when inserting a string into another string. For example, $[[ inputs.job_name ]]_job
becomes "test"_job
instead of test_job
.
To get around this, we don't cast strings to JSON. However, this creates another problem where strings that look like other data types (for example, "true"
or "6.6"
) get interpolated as non-strings (true
and 6.6
) when we don't include the quotes.
This MR fixes the situation by checking whether we are inserting the string between whitespace. When we insert between whitespace, we cast the string to JSON to ensure it gets parsed as a string. When we insert it into another string, we don't cast it to JSON to avoid getting the undesired quotes.
Issue: #439272 (closed)
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