Name provided to TICKscript replaced by Identifier

[karel-rehor]

I'm pretty sure this must be reported somewhere, but I have been unable to find it in current open issues.

When saving a new TICKscript with a name, the TICKscript appears in the Manage Tasks page's TICKscripts table listed by its identifier in the "name" column and not by the "name" the user assigned to it.

Further when opening the script again, the Identifier appears in place of the name.

I've just written an automated test for creating a TICKscript and the last assertion is that the script should be found in the Manage Tasks page by "name".

$ chronograf --version
2018/04/11 10:26:28 Chronograf 1.2.0~n201804100832 (git: 7faec8b6be473720206f974dcb95df39aefe032b)

[russorat]

good find. this is probably a side effect of #3019

[121watts]

@russorat we are POSTing the arbitrary id to the backend. But, it seems like the backend is overwriting the user assigned id if the Tickscript cannot be parsed into an 'AlertRule'.

[odarriba]

I'm seeing the same issue in 1.4.4.2 :( any news about this?

root@metrics:~# chronograf -v
2018/05/10 15:09:06 Chronograf 1.4.4.2 (git: cc398c105f97f2b13aa5f38d1ff1d2c5cae2d5af)

[russorat]

@odarriba i'm reopening this so we can find a better solution.

• give the user the ability to set the id of a kapacitor task from the frontend. once the task id is set once, they don't need to be able to change it, but a user should be able to provide a task id on script creation to be used when referencing the task in kapacitor so that they don't see guids. this does not apply to alert rules which are managed by chronograf.