Lists (arrays) in YAML are represented with the `-' prefix. So you created a
list called `testkey'.
When you echo a list in Puppet, it concatenates the elements. That's why you
got `DougBobBill'
On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com>wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 4:15 PM, Aaron Grewell <aaron.grew...@gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Precedence is for having it look in multiple places. I've got node-level,
>> site-level, and default YAML files for example.
>>
>> On Wed, Aug 3, 2011 at 3:50 PM, Douglas Garstang <doug.garst...@gmail.com
>> > wrote:
>>
>>> Can't get the extlookup() that supports yaml to work.
>>>
>>> I did this...
>>>
>>> On server:
>>> mv /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/parser/functions/extlookup.rb
>>> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/parser/functions/extlookup.rb.orig
>>> Replaced /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/parser/functions/extlookup.rb
>>> with puppet-extlookup/lib/puppet/parser/functions/extlookup.rb
>>> mkdir /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/extlookup/
>>> Added puppet-extlookup/lib/puppet/util/extlookup.rb to
>>> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util
>>> Added puppet-extlookup/lib/puppet/util/extlookup/csv_parser.rb to
>>> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/extlookup
>>> Added puppet-extlookup/lib/puppet/util/extlookup/yaml_parser.rb to
>>> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/extlookup
>>> Added puppet-extlookup/lib/puppet/util/extlookup/puppet_parser.rb to
>>> /usr/lib/ruby/site_ruby/1.8/puppet/util/extlookup
>>>
>>> Created /etc/puppet/extlookup.yaml:
>>> ---
>>> :parser: YAML
>>> :precedence:
>>> - environment_%{environment}
>>> - common
>>> :yaml:
>>> :datadir: /etc/puppet/extdata
>>>
>>> Created /etc/puppet/extdata/settings.yaml:
>>> ---
>>> testkey: testval
>>>
>>> Calling with:
>>> $test_var = extlookup('testkey', '---', 'settings.yaml')
>>> notice("TEST VAR=$test_var")
>>>
>>> And $test_var is always '---'. Replacing settings.yaml with a bogus file
>>> name also returns '---', which tells me that the file isn't being found.
>>> What am I missing here? Quite possibly a lot given the really bad docs.
>>>
>>> What is 'precedence' for? Not documented.
>>>
>>> Doug.
>>>
>>>
>>>
> Thanks Aaron. Seems you've had some experience with this, so..
>
> I'm a little confused about how it loads complex data. With a very simple
> YAML file like this:
>
> ---
> testkey:
> - Doug
> - Bob
> - Bill
>
> calling $test_var = extlookup('testkey', '---', 'settings') gives me a
> string 'DougBobBill', which isn't what I expected to see. Actually, now that
> I think about it, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to see.
>
> Also, if I had this:
>
> ---
> testkey1:
> testkey2:
> - Doug
>
> how do I access the key testkey2?
>
> Doug.
>
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