Near argument for prepared queries doesn't work

[MagicMicky]

I'm trying touse the dns API to retrieve the ip of a service (i.e.: nginx), using a prepared query that would let me use the Near argument.
When I setup my query using the following

curl -X POST -d '{ "Name": "failover",  "Near": "7e46dd932a84", "Service": { "Service": "nginx",, "Failover": { "NearestN": 3 } } }' 'localhost:8500/v1/query'

The query seems to work, but when I try to dig or execute the request, the results are random. I tried to use the explain endpoint, the "Near" field doesn't seem to be saved.

{
    "Query": {
        "ID": "579af1f5-d7ea-412f-0c19-3bd9a40f1097",
        "Name": "failover",
        "Session": "",
        "Token": "",
        "Template": {
            "Type": "",
            "Regexp": ""
        },
        "Service": {
            "Service": "nginx",
            "Failover": {
                "NearestN": 3,
                "Datacenters": null
            },
            "OnlyPassing": false,
            "Tags": null
        },
        "DNS": {
            "TTL": ""
        },
        "CreateIndex": 6555,
        "ModifyIndex": 6555
    },
    "Index": 0,
    "LastContact": 0,
    "KnownLeader": true
}

From the sources, it seems that the Near argument should be in the Service definition. Tried that but it didn't work too.

To reproduce :

docker run --name nginx_2 -d nginx
docker run --name nginx_1 -d nginx
docker run -d --name=dev-consul -p 8500:8500 -p 8600:8600 consul agent -server -client=0.0.0.0 -dev
docker run -d -v /home/sysadmin/service1.conf:/cslcfg/nginx.json --name=dev-consul-2 -p 8501:8500 -p 8601:8600 consul agent -client=0.0.0.0 -dev -retry-join 172.17.0.2 -config-dir /cslcfg
docker run -d -v /home/sysadmin/service2.conf:/cslcfg/nginx.json --name=dev-consul-3 -p 8502:8500 -p 8602:8600 consul agent -client=0.0.0.0 -dev -retry-join 172.17.0.2 -config-dir /cslcfg
curl -X POST -d '{ "Name": "failover",  "Near": "7e46dd932a84", "Service": { "Service": "nginx",, "Failover": { "NearestN": 3 } } }' 'localhost:8500/v1/query' # Near argument is the hostname of dev-consul-2

The service1 & service2.conf looks the following, jst the ips changing :

{
  "service": {
   "name": "nginx",
    "tags": ["master"],
    "address": "172.17.0.3",
    "port": 80,
    "checks": [
      {
        "script": "ping -c 1 172.17.0.3",
        "interval": "10s"
      }
    ]
  }
}

Version :

# docker exec -ti dev-consul consul version
Consul v0.6.4
Consul Protocol: 3 (Understands back to: 1)

[MagicMicky]

Ok, as from the changelog from your master branch, it seems that this will only be supported when the 0.7.0 will be released :

Prepared queries support baking in the Near sorting parameter. [GH-2137]

Might be a good idea to notice it somewhere in the documentation

[slackpad]

Hi @MagicMicky sorry for the confusion. I added a note in 0a34741 about the 0.7 version requirements.