Jira (PUP-9191) Provide a mode for puppet lookup where it only returns information on what was found

[Joel Weierman (JIRA)]

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Joel Weierman updated an issue   Puppet / PUP-9191 Provide a mode for puppet lookup where it only returns information on what was found Change By: Joel Weierman As a user of Puppet using a complex set of Hiera data and associated Puppet code, I would like to ability for puppet lookup to return information _only_ about where a particular key was found. As I would like to know the path of where the key was found, I use the --explain flag, however, the bulk of the output consists of reporting back where things _aren't_ found. While this can be useful for debugging purposes, it does not help me when I just want to know where a particular key is found. As I have a large Puppet implementation, this can often mean scrolling through many lines of "not found" data to find the information about where the key was found and what it's path was. It takes time to scroll through this extraneous information each time I run the command. It would be nice if there was a flag (.e.g --explain-brief?) that only reported information about where the key was found and suppressed any information about where it was _not_ found. As a user of puppet lookup, I generally only care about where a key is found and the associated path / location information for that particular key. Please see an example of the puppet lookup result reporting multiple instances of "Path not found" below: Path: "/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/common_nonprod/hieradata/app_id/ibok.yaml"   Original path: "common_%{::pce_environment}/hieradata/app_id/%{::app_id}.yaml"   Path not found Path: "/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/common_nonprod/hieradata/pce_environment/nonprod.yaml"   Original path: "common_%{::pce_environment}/hieradata/pce_environment/%{::pce_environment}.yaml"   Path not found ... (This type of output continues for many lines / screens of text as --explain iterates through the hierarchy) Example desired command line interaction: puppet lookup myinfo::to_lookup --node mynodename.org --environment myenvironment --explain-brief Path: "/etc/puppetlabs/code/environments/common/hieradata/common.yaml" Original path: "common_%{{::myenvironment}/hieradata/common.yaml" Found key: myinfo::to_lookup value: "Thisisthevalue::IFound" Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.7.1#77002-sha1:e75ca93) -- 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.