What to do about Hash's?

[pgagne]

I am adding support for VirtWhoConfig in #540 and #541 and am wondering what the best way to handle the foreman_virt_who_configure_config Hash that the Config API requires. Unfortunately there doesn't seem to be any public posting of the api docs, but if you have a satellite its at sat.example.com/apidoc/v2/configs/update.html

Right now in order to handle it I have to override create_payload, update_payload, and possible others.

I was wondering if there was a potential here to add something to nail gun that would better handle hashs (since a lot of other entities seem to use them). Dict seams to be the closest, but I was thinking we would want it to be something that would have other Fields as values and be able to handle those specially (ie create_missing, etc).

Do people see where I am going with this, I am working on an example and I will try to post it.

[pgagne]

Adding @SatelliteQE/robottelo-automation in case I missed anyone in the assignees.

[rplevka]

@pgagne I'd say we'd want to update the create_raw method to allow customization, so instead of directly sending the result of create_payload() method, we should be able to pass a custom payload. In your case it would be something like

  "{{
    'foreman_virt_who_configure_config': {0}
  }}".format(create_payload())

as you need to nest the 'original' json payload as a value for virt_who_config key