Updates to EM7_RESULT handling?

Question

Hi,During SL1 version update we have noticed that EM7_RESULT variable is going to be re-formatted to different type during snippet execution. For example if we populate the variable with list and with tuple elements, the variable is getting re-formatted to nested list. For example EM7_RESULT = [("test1", "test2")], is re-formatted after snippet execution to [["test1", test2"]] format.Is this change documented somewhere and in which version this update was implemented?

erickburgess · Answer

Hi Santeri,
This is the feedback from engineering.&nbsp; The change could have been a related to JSON serialization done for Data Pull in 12.1.2 and 12.2.1.
They would like to know if this is causing a problem.&nbsp; They said from a code standpoint a list of tuples and a list of lists end up behaving pretty similarly.
Regards,
Erick

santeri · Answer

Hi,Thanks for the information. Issue is that we have lot of custom automations which are using this EM7_RESULT variable to pass information between snippet actions in our run book automations. I think that we have relied on that the variable would return data as the same format as we populated it. Now we are going to have to check, update and test those automations to ensure they are working as intended with this new model and it requires lot of work. Would have also hoped that this kind of changes would have documented somewhere and received information about this change beforehand so we could have prepare to it more properly.Regards,Santeri

santeri · Answer

I would like to also add that we didn't have this issue with 12.1.2 version but it appeared in 12.3.2 version so maybe there is some other changes which can be related to this than this mentioned data pull change?