Writable table as VirtualParameter

[Dan Morphis]

Also, v parameters aren’t writable at this time. 

-dan

> On Apr 14, 2018, at 11:28 PM, George Chelidze <george.chelidze at magticom.ge> wrote:
> 
> Hi Dan,
> 
> Please see my comments below.
> 
>> The 10 entries aren’t actually deleted. Genie tracks the desired
>> state, sees that there is no change to the 10 entries, doesn’t mess
>> with them. It will only create the new entry.
> Hm, Can you explain how the following declare won't delete everything
> under the basePath?
> 
> declare(basePath + ".[]", null, {path: 0}); // Tell Genie we want to
> delete everything, this won't actually happen unless the instances don't
> match up (i.e. an instance was deleted)
> 
>> Genie doesn’t have that capability yet. So I fake it :). I create a
>> tag on the device called NeedsPortMappings. Then I have a preset with
>> the trigger being said tag name which initiates the provision script.
>> Then to get the preset to fire I initiate a connection request to the
>> CPE. Not ideal, but it works.
> Makes sense as far as it works.
> 
>> Look in the parameters.yml file in the GUI. It does the same type of
>> thing for device hosts. Remember to restart the GUI after making
>> changes to the file.
> Do you mean the following example in summary_parameters.yml?
> 
> Hosts:
>     _object: InternetGatewayDevice.LANDevice.1.Hosts.Host
>     Host name: HostName
>     IP: IPAddress
>     MAC: MACAddress
> 
> If yes, then it's a bad example as it contains a particular instance {1}
> of LANDevice. What I am looking for is something like this:
> 
> _object: InternetGatewayDevice.LANDevice.*.Hosts.Host
> 
> or
> 
> _object: InternetGatewayDevice.LANDevice.[0-9]+.Hosts.Host
> 
> Then I could adapt it for PortMapping path:
> InternetGatewayDevice.WANDevice.{i}.WANConnectionDevice.{i}.WANIPConnection.{i}.PortMappingas
> we have no idea that instances will be used on one particular device.
> 
> I agree that my original approach is complicated and it might not be
> following the Genie's style of doing things, but I still wonder whether
> it's possible or not to define virtual parameter which is a writable table.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> George Chelidze
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