From: Alan T. DeKok <aland@freeradius.org>
Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2023 13:34:35 +0000 (-0500)
Subject: notes for the future for string casting
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notes for the future for string casting
---

diff --git a/src/tests/keywords/pairs b/src/tests/keywords/pairs
index 4ded3a1876a..bba8f332fce 100644
--- a/src/tests/keywords/pairs
+++ b/src/tests/keywords/pairs
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 #
 # PRE: update if
 #
+
 &request -= &Packet-Type[*]
 
 &Tmp-Group-0 += {
@@ -10,6 +11,21 @@
 	&Tmp-Integer-0 = 7331
 }
 
+#
+#  string pairs
+#
+#  @todo - this doesn't work.  tmpl_afrom_attr_substr() doesn't check
+#  the tail da, or the parent of the tail.
+#
+#&pairs := %{(string) %{Tmp-Group-0.[*]}}
+
+#
+#  However, this does "work".  It returns a concatenated string
+#  of the _values_ of the attributes, which doesn't include th
+#  attribute names.
+#
+#&pairs := %cast('string', %{Tmp-Group-0.[*]})
+
 &request += {
 	&Tmp-String-1 = "%concat(%pairs(Tmp-Group-0.[*]), ', ')"
 	&Tmp-String-2 = "%pairs(Tmp-Group-0.Tmp-String-0)"