Jira (HI-537) Default value doesn't work correctly with an alias

[Stephen Gelman (JIRA)]

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Stephen Gelman created an issue   Hiera / HI-537 Default value doesn't work correctly with an alias Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2016/09/10 2:53 PM Priority: Normal Reporter: Stephen Gelman When doing a hiera lookup that points to an alias that doesn't exist, one would expect to get the default value passed into the lookup. Currently, that does not happen. Instead nil is always returned. In the case of puppet this raises an error that the hiera lookup failed. I have a PR incoming to fix this - just wanted to get a ticket open to reference in the commit. An example follows. Hiera data: value1: "%{alias('value2')}" Running: $ hiera value1 defaultanswer nil Expected: $ hiera value1 defaultanswer defaultanswer Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029-sha1:ae256fe) -- 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 https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.