power_state_change: convert an int input for delay to string, improve doc

this adds 'timeout' to the documentation for power_state_change, and
supports delay being an integer or a string.  This is so that yaml
can contain:
 delay: 30
rather than
 delay: "+30"
or
 dealy: "30"

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/cloudinit/config/cc_power_state_change.py b/cloudinit/config/cc_power_state_change.py
index 188047e5..e3150808 100644
--- a/cloudinit/config/cc_power_state_change.py
+++ b/cloudinit/config/cc_power_state_change.py
@@ -75,6 +75,12 @@ def load_power_state(cfg):
                         ','.join(opt_map.keys()))
 
     delay = pstate.get("delay", "now")
+    # convert integer 30 or string '30' to '+30'
+    try:
+        delay = "+%s" % int(delay)
+    except ValueError:
+        pass
+
     if delay != "now" and not re.match(r"\+[0-9]+", delay):
         raise TypeError("power_state[delay] must be 'now' or '+m' (minutes).")