No way to enter JSON types != strings via browser

[curiositycasualty]

Although adminui offers an Edit Metadata GUI interface, values entered there are always interpreted as json strings. This renders the adminui useless for such tasks as enabling custom image creation (as with the triton packer builder) since entering "true" into the Edit Metadata interface results in the string literal: "true" rather than the JSON type of true.

The only workaround is if you have shell access to the SmartOS headnode and can enter the following directly:

echo '{"metadata": {"IMGAPI_ALLOW_LOCAL_CREATE_IMAGE_FROM_VM": true}}' \ | sapiadm update $(sdc-sapi /services?name=imgapi | json -H 0.uuid)

per https://docs.joyent.com/private-cloud/install/image-management

[bahamat]

This is at /services/:uuid, but probably also applies to instance metadata as well.

[curiositycasualty]

Closing own stale issues.