Allow for custom data fields in components

[cascer1]

Hi!

I'm working on a tool that automatically checks certain things for components I added to Cachet (Right now, I'm only pinging and getting response codes).

I currently have a file that simply stores the settings for each component in an array. In this I store the url, check type, expected response code, timeout, and some other details needed for tests. I tried moving this to tags, but that didn't work because you can't have a custom tag slug (as far as I know).

I would like to be able to add custom data to a component. I imagine this being similar to tags, but instead of the tag slug being automatically generated, it is manually entered by me. That way I can store some data used by my automatic checking tool.

In the API response for GET /components/:id, I could imagine a response like

    {
        "id": 1,
        "name": "API",
        "description": "This is the Cachet API.",
        "link": "",
        "status": 1,
        "order": 0,
        "group_id": 0,
        "created_at": "2015-07-24 14:42:10",
        "updated_at": "2015-07-24 14:42:10",
        "deleted_at": null,
        "status_name": "Operational",
        "tags": [
            "slug-of-tag": "Tag Name"
        ],
        "meta": [
            "check-type": "http",
            "timeout": "15",
            "port": "80"
        ]
    }

[ConnorVG]

This is quite an interesting idea.

[jbrooksuk]

I like this.

Somebody feel free to hack on it 😄

[ekandreas]

Great! I'm using the "description" field with json-data right now. It would be great with meta fields instead :-)

[jbrooksuk]

If we (or somebody) does this, I'd also like to see the same thing applied to Incidents. I reckon that'd be very useful!