Formatting

Secured Signal API has some specific formatting rules to ensure for correct parsing.

Templates

Secured Signal API is built with Go and hence uses Go's Standard Templating Library. Which means that any valid Go template string will also work in Secured Signal API.

note

Go's templating library is used in the following features:
- Message Templates
- Placeholders

But you will mostly be using {{.VAR}}.

String to Type

tip

This formatting applies to almost every situation where the only (allowed) Input Type is a string and other Output Types are needed.

If you are using environment variables for example there would be no way of using arrays or even dictionaries as values, for these cases we have String to Type conversion shown below.

type	example
string	abc
string	+123
int	123
int	-123
json	{"a":"b","c":"d"}
array(int)	[1,2,3]
array(str)	[a,b,c]

note

Escape Type Denotations, like [] or {} (also -) with a \ backslash. An odd number of backslashes escape the character in front of them.