I'm building (one of) my first nodes, and I want to have a configuration property that accepts valid JSON. I know I need to use the typedInput mechanism for this, but I am having difficulty finding a simple example of it that I can model my node after. Anyone have/know of a simple example I can look at (could be any of the supported types)?

[image] TypedInput Widget Developing Nodes Hi, Node-RED provides a nice editor widget for selecting and defining for example payload types as strings, numbers, JSON (with editor) etc. In case you want to do it yourself, here a little example node. js file module.exports = function(RED) { "use strict"; function simpleChange(config) { RED.nodes.createNode(this, config); var node = this; node.config = config; node.on('input', function(m) { m.payload = RED.util.evaluateNodeProperty(node.config.changeValue,…

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cinhcet 25 January 2019 17:11 2

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Simple example of typedInput with type JSON?

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