Jira (HI-481) Use of periods in hiera key no longer allowed.

[Kaitlin Carter (JIRA)]

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Kaitlin Carter created an issue   Hiera / HI-481 Use of periods in hiera key no longer allowed. Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: HI 3.0.1 Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2015/11/17 10:17 AM Priority: Normal Reporter: Kaitlin Carter In Hiera 3.0 you can no longer use periods in a key. For example common.yaml --- classes.pieces: ntp When using hiera classes.piecies on the CLI it will fail to find the value ntp. [root@pe-201522-master production]# hiera -d classes.pieces --- DEBUG: 2015-11-17 18:00:12 +0000: Hiera YAML backend starting DEBUG: 2015-11-17 18:00:12 +0000: Looking up classes in YAML backend DEBUG: 2015-11-17 18:00:12 +0000: Looking for data source common nil Additionally if you use hiera_include it will cause the puppet run to fail: [root@pe-201522-master production]# puppet agent -t Info: Retrieving pluginfacts Info: Retrieving plugin Info: Loading facts Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, Could not find data item classes in any Hiera data file and no default supplied at /etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/manifests/site.pp:37:1 on node pe-201522-master.puppetdebug.vlan Warning: Not using cache on failed catalog Error: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run The use of periods was allowed in hiera 1.3.4 Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.12#64027-sha1:e3691cc) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.