Unable to parse {{ctx.payload}} mustache script from email action

[krishna_chaitanya]

Below email action:

"email_admin": {
        "email" : { 
          "to" : "abc@example.com", 
          "subject" : "{{ctx.payload.hits.total}} alert", 
          "body" : "Cannot access {{ctx.payload.hits.total}} value"
        }
      }

Returns:

Subject:  alert
Body: Cannot access  value

Couldn't find any error in the elasticsearch logs as well.

I have another action(index) along with this email action, and I could see that index correctly being populated with the values from ctx.payload

Any help appreciated !!

[spinscale (Alexander Reelsen)]

Hey,

can you please paste the output (or put it in a gist) from the Execute Watch API or alternatively the last entry from the watch history regarding that watch?

--Alex

[krishna_chaitanya]

Hi spinscale, Thanks for the reply.

The way I found a solution for this is:

When I tried to print the {{ctx.payload}} content inside the email body, I saw only {_doc=...}. So, ctx.payload was only having _doc field. This was probably because, I had multiple actions, first index action and then email action. In index action, I was returning output this way:

_docs.add(.....);
return ['_doc' : _docs]

So, when I get to email action, for some reason, I only had this _doc field in ctx.payload. All other fields from the payload are gone. But, I only needed this field in my email. So, I was fine with that.

If I could get explanation to why there's only _doc field in ctx.payload, right after index action, it would be helpful for me.

[spinscale (Alexander Reelsen)]

Hey,

again, please provide the full watch and the output of the execute watch API, otherwise debugging is impossible.

--Alex