Avoid getting tied in knots with nested jython lists

I usually get tied in knots trying to use nested lists when creating / modifying config with wsadmin.       

Consider this example:

AdminConfig.create( 'J2EEResourceProperty', propSet, 

    '[[name "key"] 

     [type "java.lang.String"] 

     [description "My property"] 

     [value "Hello"] 

     [required "false"]]' )

       

When you add some passed in params to the mix it gets messy:

AdminConfig.create( 'J2EEResourceProperty', propSet, 
    '[[name " ’ + keyParam + ’ "] 
     [type "java.lang.String"] 
     [description "My property"] 
     [value " ’ + valueParam + ’ "] 
     [required "false"]]' )

The above looks fiddly to me, much better to use the following approach:

AdminConfig.create( 'J2EEResourceProperty', propSet, 
    [['name', keyParam], 
    ['type', 'java.lang.String'], 
    ['description', 'My property'], 
    ['value', valueParam], 
    ['required', 'false']] )