Action Outputs

Any output can be used as an action, with the (current) exception of http-server.

It's useful when a pipe needs to write data out to some secondary destination, or raise a notification.

The example below, puts "hello dolly" on the RabbitMQ queue some-name, while allowing the data to flow through to standard output:

name: postact
input:
  exec:
    command: echo '{"message":"hello dolly"}'
    raw: true
actions:
- output:
    amqp:
      input-field: message
      queue:
        name: some-name
      uri: amqp://127.0.0.1//
output:
  write: console

One of the implications of 'secondary destination' is that such outputs do not block the data flow within the pipe.