On Aug 22, 2012, at 3:38 PM, Tim Mooney wrote: > What I'm asking for (or at least, about) is indeed somewhat different than > what Alexander was asking for. > > I'm a little surprised at the quick dismissal.
I do not disagree with what you've described below, but I do not think it's covered by the problem statement in #16003 -- perhaps I didn't understand the implications of Alexander's request or maybe these are two different things we're conflating. I read #16003 as wanting a way, from hiera, to enumerate all the nodes hiera considers itself authoritative for. > It seems reasonable to me > that since at least YAML supports data structures *and* puppet supports > hashes and arrays and nesting of same, one might choose to design the > configuration "namespace" for a particular class to use an actual data > structure in hiera. I've been watching the list very closely > for several months for any official statement from Puppetlabs folks about > best practices with hiera data, and your statement is really the first > I've seen. > > What you've said has a pretty clear implication: don't use nested data > structures in hiera, because they're not going to work in the way that > I think most people would expect them to work -- you can't merge different > sub-keys from different parts of your hierarchy. Now I really think we're talking about different things, because this data design seems quite reasonable and I agree that merging a various intermediate keys from a nested data structure ought to work. Indeed this seems like something that is back-end dependent, i.e. a different yaml backend could behave exactly this way behind the scenes when you request the 'ntp' hash for a node, without needing a different hiera_* function at all. So I guess I should ask, Alexander did I misunderstand what you were asking about in #16003? Eric Sorenson - eric.soren...@puppetlabs.com PuppetConf'12 - 27-28 Sep in SF - http://bit.ly/pcsig12 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
