On 24/08/17 15:52, John Baird wrote:
Henrik, I feel like this is becoming overly complicated and perhaps
that is my fault for lack of explanation.
I am simply trying to return the contents of a file that is stored in
hiera... Perhaps my gist would make more sense ?
https://gist.github.com/soudaburger/e253bdce191c731491581df0b0f99234
I commented on your gist
https://gist.github.com/soudaburger/e253bdce191c731491581df0b0f99234
(for others) I wrote this on the gist:
You need an additional function to transform a pathname with dots to one
where they are escaped. But skip that problem first and only test it
with a path that does not contain any dots
Your backend function does not have the correct kind, and signature
it should not be a 'data_hash' kind - use a 'lookup_key' kind of backend
function (you must otherwise return the content of all files as one hash)
read about how it should be written here:
https://docs.puppet.com/puppet/5.1/hiera_custom_lookup_key.html
Your backend function should not have a 'scope_param' in the dispatcher
Use Puppet::Filesystem.read(path) to read the content of the file
referenced by 'path'
The backend function receives a path in the options hash - that path is
guaranteed to exist - all non existing paths are simply skipped by hiera
(see the linked docs how it works). Thus, you do not need to use any of
the find file, etc. You can use relative paths in the hiera.yaml config
and hiera will figure it out (see the docs).
- henrik
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