Watch conditions

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When a watch is triggered, its condition determines whether to execute the watch actions. Conditions have full access to the watch execution context, including the watch payload, enabling you to evaluate data before taking action. Watcher supports five condition types: always, never, compare, array_compare, and script.

• always: The condition always evaluates to true, so the watch actions are always performed.
• never: The condition always evaluates to false, so the watch actions are never executed.
• compare: perform simple comparisons against values in the watch payload to determine whether or not to execute the watch actions.
• array_compare: compare an array of values in the watch payload to a given value to determine whether or not to execute the watch actions.
• script: use a script to determine whether or not to execute the watch actions.

When a condition is evaluated, it has full access to the watch execution context, including the watch payload (ctx.payload.*). The script, compare and array_compare conditions can use the payload data to determine whether or not the necessary conditions are met.

In addition to the watch wide condition, you can also configure conditions per action.