Running juju action with specific values gives ERROR

Also, changing the value to, lets say "foobar" removes the error, but I would like the value to be "on".

Relate this to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/juju/+bug/1881049

Hi Erik,

You can use `--string-args` to tell Juju the arg should be a string rather than boolean:

juju run-action nextcloud/0 maintenance mod=on --wait --string-args

Thats a good workaround I guess, but it really makes no sense and is really not intuitive or consistent to why that would be needed since the paramter type is already defined in the action definition.

I agree that the error message needs to be more verbose here, but in this case, I think that the yaml parser is doing the right thing. You have a value with two possible states, which is well handled by a boolean. The yaml spec allows you to ask for that boolean with "on" and "off" values.

I don't think that fighting the yaml spec and forcing your boolean to be a string is necessarily the right approach, though Juju does have a facility to win the argument with yaml if you want :-)

You are right that a boolean can do it and this is what I resorted to in the end.

It leaves offcourse the ERROR message which would let me know far earlier that some values are not permitted in a string variable, if I get this right?

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