Additional key/value attributes field for GenericItem

[5iver (Scott Rushworth)]

@Kai

What ESH has introduced are the tags that @rlkoshak already mentioned as well as the metadata infrastructure , which allows adding metadata for specific use cases.

Could you please provide an example of how to access an item’s metadata through a DSL rule? The documentation does not have one, and the unit tests give hints but I have not gotten anything to work. This is also what I was requesting here…

How can item metadata be accessed in rules?

I know it’s new to the snapshots, but I can’t wait to be able to use metadata in my items. One use case is to add metadata to my dimmer items for brightness levels based on a lux value and time of day… "DS_HallwayStairwell_Dimmer" -> (newHashMap( "Morning" -> (newHashMap("Low_Lux_Trigger" -> 20, "Level" -> 1)), "Day" -> (newHashMap("Low_Lux_Trigger" -> 50, "Level" -> 55)), "Evening" -> (newHashMap("Low_Lux_Trigger" -> 90, "Level" -> 55)), "Night" …