Array and Boolean type in KVStore causes validation errors

[MCG_RasmusToelh]

Hi we are using boolean and array as types for our KVStores. It have always worked but causes validation failures in appinspect and errors in search.log.

Changing boolean to bool is easy, but what about array isn't it supported at all?

We found the boolean, array and cidr types in the REST kvstore docs: https://docs.splunk.com/Documentation/Splunk/8.1.1/RESTREF/RESTkvstore#Arrays

But these developer docs says only '( number | bool | string | time ) ' is allowed:

https://dev.splunk.com/enterprise/docs/developapps/manageknowledge/kvstore/usingconfigurationfiles

So how and where can we use the Array type?

08-19-2020 08:58:41.873 +0200 ERROR CollectionConfigurationProvider - Invalid field type='boolean' for field='enabled' in collection='ux_applications' and app='mcg_uxm'
08-19-2020 08:58:41.873 +0200 ERROR CollectionConfigurationProvider - Invalid field type='array' for field='processes' in collection='ux_applications' and app='mcg_uxm'
08-19-2020 08:58:41.873 +0200 ERROR CollectionConfigurationProvider - Invalid field type='array' for field='tags' in collection='ux_applications' and app='mcg_uxm'

collections.conf

[ux_applications]

field.name = string

field.customer = string

field.contact = string

field.external_analysis_link_url = string

field.external_analysis_link_name = string

field.external_trace_link_url = string

field.external_trace_link_name = string

field.type = string

field.storage_used_mb = string

field.storage_quota_mb = string

field.tags = array

field.processes = array

field.enabled = boolean

replicate = true

[manjunathmeti · Accepted solution]

hi @MCG_RasmusToelh ,

Only data types number, bool, string, and time are enforced on the field values. The array type is not enforceable so does not need to be specified. 

Below statement is from collections.conf documentation

field.<name> = number|bool|string|time
* Field type for a field called <name>.
* If the data type is not provided, the data type is inferred from the provided JSON data type.