Make Blueprint Author, Mode, & Revision available as this.x variable in the BluePrint

[Sir_Goodenough ((SG) WhatAreWeFixing.Today)]

As Per:

New Author data in blueprints schema

I’ve been looking, but have not found. Does anyone know of a way to grab the value of the new author tag in Blueprints and use it as a this.something in the code. When I create an MQTT entity in a blueprint, I would like to use that variable as part of the config json for the new entity. Why not, right? A version tag would be awesome as well, should anyone be listening…

I thought I would add an actual feature request.

Currently the author: tag is available for Blueprint creators. I would like to use that variable in my blueprint, but the author constant is not made available as a this.x constant.

Likewise the mode: tag that is often changed by users has been known to cause differences in the way the BP code needs to react. Having that pulled into a this.constant would also be useful.

Finally I would like to see an optional blueprint_version: tag added to Blueprints that is made available as a this.x constant. It could be used when creating MQTT Discovery variables in the code, as well as be helpful to the user base when the author updates the BluePrint helping keep things straight and preventing mix-up during support.