What is service_template, data_template and split?

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Hi guys! I stumbled across these terms but couldn’t find any source explaining it exactly.
Could you help me out?
Just want to improve my knowledge about HA

Greetings!

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You are reading out of date posts. Neither data_template nor service_template are used since version 0.115.

Split is a function that can manipulate strings into smaller parts.

3

Thank you! Where can I read more about it? I bet there are a lot of things like split that are not explained on the main website!

Greetings!

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Interestingly it is not in the Jinja documentation. It works similar to the Python method that you can read about here:

https://www.w3schools.com/python/ref_string_split.asp

5

Interesting! Thanks.
Could you maybe explain a use case to me?
Cause how I see it from the solution here there’s no split necessary.
So I wonder about some use cases. First I thought splitting a string like from the link you postet {{ light.bathroom.split (‘.’) [1] }} would give me bathroom, but it didn’t. With quotes was the same.

Greetings!

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Later in the other thread it was made clear that the attribute is already a list and not a string.

The following is working for me:

{{ 'light.bathroom'.split (".") [1]  }}

Also make sure that you are using the correct quotation marks.

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I’m a fool. .split was also within the quotation…
Thanks guys!