multiple alias formats not working

[bartwalczak1]

I am trying to put multiple formats in single alias

following this --> https://docs.stackstorm.com/chatops/aliases.html#multiple-formats-in-a-single-alias

here's alias I've put together

---
name: "get_ip_address"
pack: "core"
description: "get_ip_address"
action_ref: "core.get_ip_address"
formats:
     - "get ip {{tag_key}} {{tag_value}} {{tag_key2}} {{tag_value2}}"
     - "get ip {{tag_key}} {{tag_value}}"
ack:
 format: "Thinking...\n Execution id: '{{execution.id}}'"
 enabled: false
 append_url: false
result:
 extra:
   slack:
     color: "#00AA00"
     pretext: "Here's your response {{execution.context.api_user}}"
     title: "title"
     text: "optional text"
 format: |
   {{ execution.result.stdout}}

when I hit !st2 get ip ec2_tag_cluster qa-blue I am getting result, but when I hit !st2 get ip ec2_tag_cluster qa-blue a b

I am getting st2 command 'get ip ec2_tag_cluster qa-blue a b' not found. Check help with !st2help

in st2help I can see two formats listed

!st2 get ip {{tag_key}} {{tag_value}} {{tag_key2}} {{tag_value2}} -- get_ip_address
!st2 get ip {{tag_key}} {{tag_value}} -- get_ip_address

[Kami]

Thanks for reporting this.

It looks like an errobot issue (which is not officially supported by us) - fmnisme/err-stackstorm#11.

Having said that, we should update hubot and any other bot plugin to act just as a very simple and dumb wrapper around the API - all the matching, etc. should be performed server side.

[nzlosh]

I've detailed the problem in fmnisme/err-stackstorm#11, but the short version is an actionalias with multiple formats that differ by trailing tags causes ambiguous matches.