Jira (PUP-6746) Puppet Lookup --explain Should Inform the user if they have not set environment_data_provider

[Nick Walker (JIRA)]

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Nick Walker created an issue   Puppet / PUP-6746 Puppet Lookup --explain Should Inform the user if they have not set environment_data_provider Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2016/09/27 8:16 AM Labels: tcse Priority: Normal Reporter: Nick Walker The Problem I was trying out puppet lookup so I made a new hiera.yaml in my environment and put some data in place. When I ran puppet lookup it would not return my data. [root@master201621-centos ~]# puppet lookup lookup_param00 --explain --node master201621-centos Merge strategy first Data Binding "hiera" No such key: "lookup_param00" Data Provider "EnvironmentDataProvider" No such key: "lookup_param00" After searching around I realized I need to set environment_data_provider in puppet.conf or environment.conf. The Improvement I believe the --explain should let you know that it doesn't have an environment_data_provider if you haven't specified one. When you have correctly specified an environment_data_provider it looks like: [root@master201621-centos ~]# puppet lookup explore_lookup::param00 --explain --node master201621-centos Merge strategy first Data Binding "hiera" No such key: "explore_lookup::param00" Data Provider "Hiera Data Provider, version 4" ConfigurationPath "/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/production/hiera.yaml" ... I propose that if you never specified an environment_data_provide it should return something like: [root@master201621-centos ~]# puppet lookup explore_lookup::param00 --explain --node master201621-centos Merge strategy first Data Binding "hiera" No such key: "explore_lookup::param00" Data Provider "No Environment Data Provider Specified" ConfigurationPath "" ... 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.