I'm trying to use a Perl module (Opsview::REST) it wants to use a data structure that looks like below. I'm properly confused as to what this is hash of hashes or whatever...

                       'hostattributes' => [
                                              {
                                                'value' => 'some value
+1',
                                                'name' => 'URL',
                                                'arg2' => undef,
                                                'arg4' => undef,
                                                'arg1' => 'someurl.com
+',
                                                'arg3' => undef
                                              },
                                              {
                                                'arg3' => undef,
                                                'arg1' => 'someurl..co
+m',
                                                'name' => 'URL',
                                                'arg4' => undef,
                                                'arg2' => undef,
                                                'value' => 'some value
+ 2'
                                              }
                                            ],

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I need to create it programatically as I need to read and parse data to create multiple blocks (which is no problem) then once created I need to pass it into the Opsview::Rest piece as below 

my $host = $ops->create_or_update_host(
    ip                  => 'nodename.com',
    name                => "Name",
    hostgroup           => { name => 'RDG - Prod Services' },
    hosttemplates        => [ { 'ref' => '/rest/config/hosttemplate/94
+', 'name' => 'AA-RDG-Pseudo-services' } ],
    hostattributes        => PASS HERE,
    notification_period => { name => 'RDG-24x7-Minus-Bounce' }
);

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I'm an occasional Perl programmer so this may be simple to some but I'm bloody confused, any help welcome

In reply to Data Structure confusion... by Spoon71

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