How to properly use buckets?

[greenaar]

Ok, I'll admit, I'm stumped.

I have an event built. It uses a shell command to write a file called filelist.json. It contains properly structured json. I've confirmed it exists.

I've added a store bucket command, for files and data, to a new (empty) bucket.

At the end of the event run, the attached is shown. There's no data added to the bucket. I've tried both with the specific filename, and with the '*' glob. Same result both times.

What am I missing?

The part in my script where i confirm the file's actually there

[jhuckaby]

Are you telling xySat to actually upload the file as part of your job output?

See: https://docs.xyops.io/plugins/output-files

You have to specifically tell it to attach files to the job. Try something like:

echo '{ "xy":1, "files": ["filelist.json"] }'

Or use a wildcard for all files in the job dir:

echo '{ "xy":1, "files": ["*"] }'

This step is required because you may have temporary or intermediate files that you don't want uploaded, and we don't want it to upload input files either.

[greenaar]

That was it. I swear I looked at that. I even tried it, but i think i had the quotes reversed (single in place of double and vice versa).

Is there a plan to cross link the bucket readme to the output-files readme for that specific trick? If not, I'd like to suggest that as an edit, as it makes sense once explained, but I didn't find the path there when reading the docs.

Thank you. Excellent tool you've made.

[jhuckaby]

No worries! JSON is such a picky file format. You know, I've had a TODO item on my list for months now, that is to have xySat emit some kind of warning into the job metadata if it fails to parse a JSON message from the child process. I'll bump up the priority of that 👍🏻

And yup, I will put in a mention in the docs that links those two sections together. Thanks!