Type Notes — Orkestra

Runtime type inspection and conversion.

Type inspection

Note	Signature	Returns
`typeOf`	`v`	`"string"` `"map"` `"slice"` `"number"` `"bool"` `"null"`
`typeMap`	`v`	`bool`
`typeList`	`v`	`bool`
`typeString`	`v`	`bool`
`typeNumber`	`v`	`bool`
`typeBool`	`v`	`bool`
`typeNull`	`v`	`bool`
`len`	`v`	`int` — element count for maps/slices, char count for strings
`isEmpty`	`v`	`bool`
`isScalar`	`v`	`bool` (string, number, bool, null)
`isComposite`	`v`	`bool` (map, slice)

Type conversion

Note	Signature	Returns
`toInt`	`v`	`int64` — truncates floats, parses strings, 1/0 for bools
`toFloat`	`v`	`float64`
`toBool`	`v`	`bool` — `"true"/"yes"/"1"` → true, `"false"/"no"/"0"` → false
`toString`	`v`	`string`

Examples

# Expose input format in status
- path: scheduleFormat
  value: "{{ typeOf .spec.schedule }}"

# Branch on type in onReconcile (Approach B — no normalize)
when:
  - field: spec.schedule
    operator: typeOf
    value: map

# Validate a field is a map
- field: spec.config
  operator: custom
  value: "{{ typeMap .spec.config }}"
  message: "spec.config must be a structured object"
  action: deny

# Arithmetic on a field that may arrive as a string
replicas: "{{ toInt .spec.replicas }}"

For field-shape coercion (parsing JSON/YAML strings back to maps or lists), see type coercion notes.