Jira (PUP-7508) Failing mapped_paths don't get explained by lookup --explain

[Nicholas Fagerlund (JIRA)]

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Nicholas Fagerlund created an issue   Puppet / PUP-7508 Failing mapped_paths don't get explained by lookup --explain Issue Type: Bug Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2017/05/09 6:10 PM Priority: Normal Reporter: Nicholas Fagerlund If you set a hierarchy level to use mapped_paths but the fact you're trying to map does not exist, puppet lookup --explain does not tell you anything helpful about it. You just get one line: Hierarchy entry "Networks" In my case, I was using an old version of facter that didn't support the networking fact, but I had to go through a whole lot of extra sleuthing to figure out what --explain should have told me. The explain output should give useful help for the following cases: The mapped variable is not set, so there's nothing to map. The mapped variable isn't mappable, because it's a string/bool/number/undef. You've made the wrong assumptions in the path template, and are trying to access subkeys that aren't what you expect. <string>.1, or something. 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.