Jira (HI-482) String literals should literally be literal

[Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)]

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Henrik Lindberg commented on HI-482   Re: String literals should literally be literal I know for a fact that it is impossible to differentiate one kind of string from another. So it is much harder than just "hard" since it is neither hiera nor puppet that is transforming the YAML or JSON into objects. When hiera gets hold of them they are just strings. What is left is only syntax in the actual strings. Hiera currently squats on everything in terms of syntax and data types - so yeah, this is impossible without causing incompatible breakage. We would need to create a custom YAML or JSON parser in order to treat single or double quoted string differently. Alternatively encode the data differently by adding a top data file scope that is for instructions instead of keys (to allow some keys to be uninterpreted). The later can be achieved by implementing a custom backend - say by having data under they keys "verbatim:" and "processed" (or somesuch). 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.