Change javascript code in function node

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Can we change Javascript code or rule written in function by external code or rule?
by rest-api or something else

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You mean by having the code evaluated based on what comes in through the payload? Should be possible but is a huge security risk.

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Also asked in this post yesterday. Import rules by rest api
Please do not open multiple threads for the same question.

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Use an http endpoint, listen for url parameters and use that value in the function node (if this is the same question as @ukmoose refers to).

Example:

[{"id":"36b2aa68.f0c22e","type":"template","z":"908a6b8f.bc81b","name":"page","field":"payload","fieldType":"msg","format":"handlebars","syntax":"mustache","template":"<html>\n    <head></head>\n    <body>\n        \n        <pre>Value set to: {{req.query.value}}</pre>\n    </body>\n</html>","output":"str","x":482,"y":216,"wires":[["c71905a9.2c4a6","55263430.81fe6c"]]},{"id":"6d837eb1.40c64","type":"http in","z":"908a6b8f.bc81b","name":"","url":"/test","method":"get","upload":false,"swaggerDoc":"","x":348,"y":216,"wires":[["36b2aa68.f0c22e"]]},{"id":"a471e444.76cbd8","type":"debug","z":"908a6b8f.bc81b","name":"","active":true,"tosidebar":true,"console":false,"tostatus":false,"complete":"true","targetType":"full","x":770,"y":240,"wires":[]},{"id":"c71905a9.2c4a6","type":"http response","z":"908a6b8f.bc81b","name":"","statusCode":"","headers":{},"x":626,"y":192,"wires":[]},{"id":"6cff4544.0fa4b4","type":"comment","z":"908a6b8f.bc81b","name":"Open url: http://<ip>:1880/test?value=12","info":"","x":448,"y":144,"wires":[]},{"id":"55263430.81fe6c","type":"function","z":"908a6b8f.bc81b","name":"","func":"if(msg.hasOwnProperty(\"req\")){\n    i = parseInt(msg.req.query.value)\n}\nelse{\n    // input from different node or set it to a default value\n    i = msg.payload\n}\n\n\nreturn {payload:i}\n","outputs":1,"noerr":0,"x":626,"y":240,"wires":[["a471e444.76cbd8"]]},{"id":"7d660147.652b88","type":"inject","z":"908a6b8f.bc81b","name":"","topic":"","payload":"30","payloadType":"num","repeat":"","crontab":"","once":false,"onceDelay":0.1,"x":482,"y":288,"wires":[["55263430.81fe6c"]]}]

Or use node-red-dashboard, you can create a form that an end-user can manipulate.

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Isn't there an admin API that lets you replace flows or an I confused?

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Yes -- that would be a "brute-force" approach... http post the new user parameters to a node-red flow that gets the currently running flow, uses some code or expression to modify the affected nodes' attributes/configuration values, and POST the whole flow as json back to the running server using the admin /flows api. A self-modifying flow, if you will... gutsy, but technically possible. I give it a month before it self destructs!

A better alternative may be to http post the new user parameters to a flow that puts them into the appropriate flow context variables, which are then used by the data aggregation logic from that point forward. It may take a while to work through your UI charts, but at least there is no deployment step required.

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Could we please keep this discussion in one thread and close the other? There have already been some ideas here: Import rules by rest api

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Hi @bakman2 I appreciate your effort but you are changing the payload.
I want to change the rule not payload

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Well to be honest, it is not simple to interpret what you are actually looking for as you didn't give us much to work on.

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@bakman2
Hi,
I have written one rule as
sensorData=JSON.parse(msg.payload);
var a=sensordata.dp1;
var a=sensordata.dp2;
var c=a+b;
msg.payload=c;
return msg;

this is addition rule of 2 datapoints
Now I want to change it to multiplication rule by external rest-api or anything possible.
how can I do that?

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As suggested;

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Can you explain why you want to do that? What is happening to the answer from this function?

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I'm locking this thread as the OP already had an active thread on this topic and we can't keep replying to the same thing in two places.

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