Output change from objects in lists in custom scripts

[PaulR282]

I noticed the output of self.log_info(some_device) differs from self.log_info([some_device]). The first outputs the object name while the second outputs []. This is problematic when outputting an object within a list. I don't think it is intended and it worked some time ago.

[candlerb]

Netbox version?

You can't pass random types to python functions and expect them to work. In Netbox 4.0, log_info is documented to take two arguments, the first being a message and the second being an object, both optional.

log_info(message=None, obj=None)

Therefore, these should work:

self.log_info(None, some_device)
self.log_info(obj=some_device)

Passing an object as the message might happen to work, because Netbox might implicitly call str(...) on that object. If you pass an array of objects, well it's down to the implementation what might happen.

You could try using a function which explicitly converts to string form, e.g.

log_info(repr([some_device]))

[PaulR282]

Yes, I could use a function but I have a lot of structures with nested lists in a lot of scripts where I would need to implement this. Some time ago, it worked normally (outputting the object.name). I don't think it came with the v4 update, I think the change was more recent.