27. Greenbar Tags

27.1. if

Provides a small set of operators to express conditional logic. Conditionally evaluates its body based on the value of the cond attribute.

27.1.1. Example

~if cond=$doit bound?~
Hello there!
~end~

Given the variable $doit is bound, the above template would produce:

Hello there!

Given that the variable $doit is not bound, the above template would produce an empty string.

27.1.2. Operators

Symbol	Name	Variable value types
>	greater than	int, float
>=	greater than equal	int, float
<	less than	int, float
<=	less than equal	int, float
==	equal	int, float, string
!=	not equal	int, float, string
bound?	is bound	any
empty?	is empty	list, map

27.2. Each

Iterates over a list binding each item to a variable scoped to the tag’s body. Uses the value of the as attribute as the name of the variable during each iteration. If not provided it defaults to item.

27.2.1. Examples

Using the default body variable item:

~each var=$users~
First Name: ~$item.first_name~
Last Name: ~$item.last_name~
~end~

Customizing the body variable:

~each var=$users as=user~
First Name: ~$user.first_name~
Last Name: ~$user.last_name~
~end~

Given the variable $users is bound to [%{"first_name" => "John", "last_name" => "Doe"}] then both of the above templates would produce:

First Name: John
Last Name: Doe

27.3. Join

Iterates over a list, joining the rendered items with the value of the with attribute, which defaults to ", ". Similar to the each tag, you may also provide an as attribute which sets the name of the variable scoped to the body of the tag.

27.3.1. Examples

Create a comma-delimited list

~join var=$names~~$item~~end~

Given that the variable $names is bound to ["Mark", "Kevin", "Shelton"] then the above template would produce:

Mark, Kevin, Shelton

Specify a custom joiner

~join var=$names with="-"~~$item~~end~

Custom binding

~join var=$names as=name~~$name~~end~

Bodies can contain arbitrary instructions

~join var=$users~~$item.profile.username~~end~

27.4. Count

Returns the size of the referenced variable. When referencing lists the size is the length of the list. For maps, size is the number of the map’s unique keys. Any other value type will display “N/A”.

27.4.1. Examples

There are ~count var=$users~ users.

Given that the variable $users is bound to [{ "name": "Mark" }, { "name": "Kevin" }] then the above template would produce:

There are 2 users.

Given that the variable $users is bound to { "imbriaco": 1, "kevsmith": 2, "shelton": 3 } then the above template would produce:

There are 3 users.

27.5. Break

Inserts a hard newline into the rendered template. This can be useful to work around situtions where Markdown consolidates newlines.

27.5.1. Examples

Normally Markdown will combine two code blocks into one if they are separated by a single newline.

This is a line of code
This is another line of code

will render as

This a line of codeThis is another line of code

This is a line of code
~br~
This is another line of code

will render as

This is a line of code
This is another line of code

27.6. Attachment

Wraps body in an attachment directive. The initial design is heavily influenced by Slack’s attachment API.

27.6.1. Attributes

Name	Description
title	Attachment title
title_url	Optional title link URL
color	Color to be used when rendering attachment (interpretation may vary by provider)
image_url	Link to image asset (if any)
author	Author name
pretext	Preamble text displayed before attachment body
footer	Brief text that appears as the attachment’s footer

Any other attributes will be interpreted as custom fields and included in the attachments’ fields field. Custom fields have the following structure:

{
  "title": <attribute_name>,
  "value": <attribute_value>,
  "short": false
}

27.6.2. Examples

The template

~attachment title="VM Use By Region" runtime=$timestamp~
|Region|Count|
|---|---|
~each var=$regions as=region~
|~$region.name~|~$region.vm_count~|
~end~
~end~

when executed with the data

%{"timestamp" => "Mon Sep 12 13:06:57 EDT 2016",
 "regions" => [%{"name" => "us-east-1", "vm_count" => 113},
             %{"name" => "us-west-1", "vm_count" => 105}]}

generates the rendering directives

[%{name: :attachment,
   title: "VM Use By Region",
   fields: [%{short: false,
              title: "runtime",
              value: "Mon Sep 12 13:06:57 EDT 2016"}],
              children: [%{name: :table, children: [%{name: :table_header,
                                  children: [%{name: :table_cell,
                                           children: [%{name: :text, text: "Region"}]},
                                         %{name: :table_cell,
                                           children: [%{name: :text, text: "Count"}]}]},
                            %{name: :table_row,
                              children: [%{name: :table_cell,
                                           children: [%{name: :text, text: "us-east-1"}]},
                                         %{name: :table_cell,
                                           children: [%{name: :text, text: "113"}]}]},
                            %{name: :table_row,
                              children: [%{name: :table_cell,
                                           children: [%{name: :text, text: "us-west-1"}]},
                                         %{name: :table_cell,
                                           children: [%{name: :text, text: "105"}]}]}]}]}]

27.7. Json

Generates a code block containing the pretty-printed JSON encoding of a variable.

27.7.1. Examples

With my_json equal to

{
  "foo": "bar",
  "stuff": {
    "hello": "world"
  }
}

the template

~json var=$my_json~

would render the text

{
  "foo": "bar",
  "stuff": {
    "hello": "world"
  }
}