After updating config.go, settings for parsers and measurement names are not taken

[M0rdecay]

Relevant telegraf.conf:

[[inputs.file]]
  files = [ "data.xml" ]
  name_override = "measurement_1"
  data_format = "value"
  data_type = "string"

Expected behavior:

The telegraf will work with this configuration

Actual behavior:

2020-11-04T10:19:56Z E! [telegraf] Error running agent: Error loading config file some_data.conf: plugin inputs.file: line 1: configuration specified the fields ["name_override" "data_type"], but they weren't used

Additional info:

I ran into this while testing after updating my branch after merging this PR - #7583.
Parameters for the parser are now marked as unused.

After that, I builded telegraf from the master branch, after which I encountered the error described above.

@ssoroka, take a look, please. The situation is reproduced on the master build.

[ssoroka]

should be resolved now. Thanks for the report!

[melroy89]

Telegraf 1.17.0 on Ubuntu Server 20.04 LTS. Same issue still, this time with the inputs.exec plugin:

Error loading config file /etc/telegraf/telegraf.conf: plugin inputs.exec: line 2324: configuration specified the fields ["date_type"], but they weren't used

While the documentation says data_type is required: https://docs.influxdata.com/telegraf/v1.17/data_formats/input/value/

[M0rdecay]

@Danger89 it seems you have specified the parameter incorrectly:

configuration specified the fields ["date_type"], but they weren't used

please, try with data_type

[melroy89]

Oopsy, let me check.

EDIT: Sorry, it was indeed a typo! My bad!