feat(templating): initial work on rethink of value formating

public/app/features/dashboard/partials/shareModal.html

@@ -136,22 +136,23 @@
 					<button class="btn btn-inverse btn-large" data-clipboard-text="{{snapshotUrl}}" clipboard-button><i class="fa fa-clipboard"></i> Copy Link</button>
 				</div>
 			</div>
+		</div>
 
-			<div ng-if="step === 1" class="gf-form-buttons-row">
-				<button class="btn btn-success btn-large" ng-click="createSnapshot()" ng-disabled="loading">
-					<i class="fa fa-save"></i>
-					Local Snapshot
-				</button>
-				<button class="btn btn-primary btn-large" ng-if="externalEnabled" ng-click="createSnapshot(true)" ng-disabled="loading">
-					<i class="fa fa-cloud-upload"></i>
-					{{sharingButtonText}}
-				</button>
-			</div>
-
-			<div class="pull-right" ng-if="step === 2" style="padding: 5px">
-				Did you make a mistake? <a class="pointer" ng-click="deleteSnapshot()" target="_blank">delete snapshot.</a>
-			</div>
+		<div ng-if="step === 1" class="gf-form-buttons-row">
+			<button class="btn btn-success btn-large" ng-click="createSnapshot()" ng-disabled="loading">
+				<i class="fa fa-save"></i>
+				Local Snapshot
+			</button>
+			<button class="btn btn-primary btn-large" ng-if="externalEnabled" ng-click="createSnapshot(true)" ng-disabled="loading">
+				<i class="fa fa-cloud-upload"></i>
+				{{sharingButtonText}}
+			</button>
 		</div>
 
+		<div class="pull-right" ng-if="step === 2" style="padding: 5px">
+			Did you make a mistake? <a class="pointer" ng-click="deleteSnapshot()" target="_blank">delete snapshot.</a>
+		</div>
 	</div>
+
+</div>
 </script>

public/app/features/templating/templateSrv.js

@@ -24,22 +24,18 @@ function (angular, _) {
 
     this.updateTemplateData = function() {
       this._values = {};
-      this._texts = {};
 
       _.each(this.variables, function(variable) {
-        if (!variable.current || !variable.current.isNone && !variable.current.value) { return; }
-
-        this._values[variable.name] = this.renderVariableValue(variable);
-        this._texts[variable.name] = variable.current.text;
-      }, this);
+         if (!variable.current || !variable.current.isNone && !variable.current.value) { return; }
+         this._values[variable.name] = variable.current.value;
+       }, this);
     };
 
-    this.renderVariableValue = function(variable) {
-      var value = variable.current.value;
+    this.formatValue = function(value, format) {
       if (_.isString(value)) {
         return value;
       } else {
-        switch(variable.multiFormat) {
+        switch(format) {
           case "regex values": {
             return '(' + value.join('|') + ')';
           }
@@ -89,22 +85,31 @@ function (angular, _) {
       });
     };
 
-    this.replace = function(target, scopedVars) {
+    this.replace = function(target, scopedVars, format) {
       if (!target) { return target; }
 
-      var value;
+      var value, systemValue;
       this._regex.lastIndex = 0;
 
       return target.replace(this._regex, function(match, g1, g2) {
         if (scopedVars) {
           value = scopedVars[g1 || g2];
-          if (value) { return value.value; }
+          if (value) {
+            return self.formatValue(value.value);
+          }
         }
 
         value = self._values[g1 || g2];
-        if (!value) { return match; }
+        if (!value) {
+          return match;
+        }
+
+        systemValue = self._grafanaVariables[value];
+        if (systemValue) {
+          return self.formatValue(systemValue);
+        }
 
-        return self._grafanaVariables[value] || value;
+        return self.formatValue(value, format);
       });
     };
 

public/test/specs/templateSrv-specs.js

@@ -45,6 +45,22 @@ define([
       });
     });
 
+    describe.only('replace can pass multi / all format', function() {
+      beforeEach(function() {
+        _templateSrv.init([{name: 'test', current: {value: ['value1', 'value2'] }}]);
+      });
+
+      it('should replace $test with globbed value', function() {
+        var target = _templateSrv.replace('this.$test.filters', {}, 'glob');
+        expect(target).to.be('this.{value1,value2}.filters');
+      });
+
+      it('should replace $test with piped value', function() {
+        var target = _templateSrv.replace('this=$test', {}, 'pipe');
+        expect(target).to.be('this=value1|value2');
+      });
+    });
+
     describe('render variable to string values', function() {
       it('single value should return value', function() {
         var result = _templateSrv.renderVariableValue({current: {value: 'test'}});