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Add Custom Property with Variable propery name

Hi all,

I have been working with the python Orion SDK. I was hoping to be able to add a custom property to a node, where the name of the custom property is a variable. Example shown below:

connection.update(uri + '/CustomProperties', property_name = property_value)

How can I make it so "property_name" can be a variable? Or will that have to be hard coded in?

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tdanner

Try this:

props = { property_name : property_value }connection.update(uri + '/CustomProperties', **props)

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tdanner

Try this:

props = { property_name : property_value }connection.update(uri + '/CustomProperties', **props)

matthew_shafran

Hi tdanner,

Thank you for the reply. I tried doing:

	t1 = "Department"
	t2 = "testing"
	props = { t1 = t2 }
	swis.update(uri + '/CustomProperties', **props)

But I was getting an invalid syntax error on the props line.

tdanner

Oops! That's my typo. Python object literal syntax is { prop : value} not { prop = value }.

I edited my post above to fix the error.

matthew_shafran

It works great, thank you very much!