v4 how to insert reply attributes in the radpostauth sql query?

[James Wood]

Hi Alan,

Thanks for this. I am on the 'alpha1' release as I couldn't find the v4
source directly on GitHub. Do you have the URL directly to the latest v4
source files so I can rebuild the very latest?

Thanks,

James


On Wed, 25 Mar 2026, 17:54 Alan DeKok, <alan.dekok at inkbridge.io> wrote:

> On Mar 25, 2026, at 11:44 PM, James Wood via Freeradius-Users <
> freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
> > Just before we perform the insert, I am trying to get all of the reply
> > attributes we're sending as described here:
> >
> >
> https://www.freeradius.org/documentation/freeradius-server/4.0.0/reference/xlat/pairs/print.html
> >
> > &control.Tmp-String-9 := "%pairs.print(reply.[*])"
>
>   You don't need quotes around the %pairs.print() call.  But you likely
> need to quote the reply.[*] argument.
>
> > and then referencing the tmp string on the query.
>
>   Or, just use %pairs.print() directly.
>
> > I get:
> >
> > %pairs.print(reply.[*])
> > ^: Unresolved expansion functions are not allowed here
> >
> > Any thoughts? If this isn't the right way, please advise how I can get
> > these reply attributes into a string ready for the sql insert.
>
>   The %pairs.print() function is in the current git "master" branch.  It's
> tested in CI on every commit.
>
> $ git grep 'pairs.print' src/tests/keywords
> src/tests/keywords/pairs:result_string :=
> "%str.concat(%pairs.print('Tmp-Group-0.[*]'), ', ')"
> src/tests/keywords/pairs:result_string :=
> "%pairs.print('Tmp-Group-0.Filter-Id')"
> ...
>
>   Make sure you're using a recent version of v4.  If you're running
> something from many months ago, it will out of date.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
>
>

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