From fff55212da5958e239956d8e99a62b95cdc47e50 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Jonathan Shook <jshook@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2020 08:42:40 -0500
Subject: [PATCH] allow map-only named statement constructions in YAML

---
 .../engine/api/activityconfig/rawyaml/RawStmtDef.java     | 8 +++++++-
 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/engine-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/activityconfig/rawyaml/RawStmtDef.java b/engine-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/activityconfig/rawyaml/RawStmtDef.java
index 90303d96b..2df7db118 100644
--- a/engine-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/activityconfig/rawyaml/RawStmtDef.java
+++ b/engine-api/src/main/java/io/nosqlbench/engine/api/activityconfig/rawyaml/RawStmtDef.java
@@ -59,7 +59,13 @@ public class RawStmtDef extends RawStmtFields {
                         " docs for undefined-name-statement-tuple");
             }
             Map.Entry<String, Object> firstEntry = iterator.next();
-            setStmt((String) firstEntry.getValue());
+            if (firstEntry.getValue() instanceof Map && map.size()==1) {
+                Map values = (Map) firstEntry.getValue();
+                setFieldsByReflection(values);
+                map = values;
+            } else if (firstEntry.getValue() instanceof CharSequence){
+                setStmt(((CharSequence) firstEntry.getValue()).toString());
+            }
             map.remove(firstEntry.getKey());
             if (getName().isEmpty()) {
                 setName(firstEntry.getKey());