Jira (PUP-9560) Class references in Hiera data: parsing error?

[Stephen Kenny (JIRA)]

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Stephen Kenny commented on PUP-9560   Re: Class references in Hiera data: parsing error? Finally getting back to this - big apologies for taking so long.   First of all, I have to contradict an assertion I made in my original post.  I said then that the problem occurred only when I had the file resource data specified in my Hiera data, and that everything was ok if the resource was explicitly defined in the node's manifest (i.e., that in the latter case all was good and it didn't matter if the class name was capitalized or not in the "before =>" attribute). Now, for whatever reason (server & agent updates, or I was simply wrong earlier), I find this is not a correct assertion.  I now see  behaviour that exactly mirrors my Hiera scenario.  That is, in the main manifest, "before => Class[Nfs]" works, but "before => Class[nfs]" fails, with the same error as before:     Invalid relationship: File[/primary] { before => Class[nfs] }, because Class[nfs] doesn't seem to be in the catalog I am seeing exactly the same behaviour with your test example: "before => 'Class[Test]" results in a successful agent  run; "before => 'Class[test]" fails (with the same kind of error message).   My Puppet server and agent versions are 6.3.0 and 6.4.2, respectively.  The OS for both server and agent is Debian 9.9.  Here are the (failing) code blocks from the node's manifest: file { '/primary':     ensure => 'directory',     owner => 'root',     group => 'root',     mode => '0644',     before => 'Class[nfs]', } include nfs notify { "goes first":     before => 'Class[test]' } include test   Thomas Hallgren mentioned producing a stack trace.  Attached is the latter part of the output of "puppet agent --test --debug" - if this isn't enough, let me know what would be better  -  agent-run.debug       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. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-bugs/JIRA.300184.1552566093000.13908.1558448700548%40Atlassian.JIRA. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.