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

[afgibson84]

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.

[woodcock]

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

[renjith_nair · Accepted solution]

Hi @afgibson84,

try below,

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

[felipesewaybric]

The answer above works for me.

[vidhyaArumalla]

This works

[renjith_nair]

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

[Anam]

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

[afgibson84]

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);
    });