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How to list & query macros for definitions using the Splunk Javascript SDK?

afgibson84 — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 14:07:43 GMT

Does anyone know how to query macros using the Javascript SDK? I would like to essentially have the app list and/or query the macros.conf files so that I can dynamically pull in macro names and definitions.

Re: How to list & query macros for definitions using the Splunk Javascript SDK?

renjith_nair — Tue, 10 Jul 2018 16:26:55 GMT

Hi @afgibson84,

try below,

var service = new splunkjs.Service({username: "admin", password: "yourpassword"});
var definition= service.get('properties/macros/"your macro name" /definition')["body"]

Re: How to list & query macros for definitions using the Splunk Javascript SDK?

felipesewaybric — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 16:17:47 GMT

The answer above works for me.

Re: How to list & query macros for definitions using the Splunk Javascript SDK?

vidhyaArumalla — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 16:41:06 GMT

This works

Re: How to list & query macros for definitions using the Splunk Javascript SDK?

woodcock — Tue, 17 Jul 2018 22:11:59 GMT

It often helps to see how Splunk itself does this. You can logon to your Search Head and run this command (and you can snoop on other aspects with debug tools of your browser):

|rest/servicesNS/-/-/configs/conf-macros splunk_server=local | dedup id | table eai:acl.owner eai:acl.sharing disabled title definition validation errormsg | rename eai:acl.* AS * | sort 0 title

Re: How to list & query macros for definitions using the Splunk Javascript SDK?

renjith_nair — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 02:34:09 GMT

@felipesewaybricker , @vidhyaArumalla . Glad to hear 🙂 you could upvote and accept it as an answer

Re: How to list & query macros for definitions using the Splunk Javascript SDK?

Anam — Wed, 18 Jul 2018 23:50:04 GMT

Hi @afgibson84

Please go ahead and accept the answer if the solution worked for you. If not, can you post more information on your query?

Thanks

Re: How to list & query macros for definitions using the Splunk Javascript SDK?

afgibson84 — Thu, 02 Aug 2018 12:43:02 GMT

Thank you - the answer above helped get me started but service.get() returned a promise. Here is what worked for me (using an already authenticated session):

var http = new splunkjs.SplunkWebHttp();
var service = new splunkjs.Service(http);
service.get('propertiec/macros/<name>/definition')
    .then((definition) => {
        console.log('here is the definition:',definition);
    });