Jira (PUP-10654) Supplying data of mixed data types (Variant) via Hiera (YAML backend)

[Henrik Lindberg (Jira)]

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Henrik Lindberg commented on PUP-10654   Re: Supplying data of mixed data types (Variant) via Hiera (YAML backend) You can achieve the same by using a hiera lookup option to convert a string to a Regexp. Then you alias the typecasted key. For example for a parameter foo::bar, if value should be a string, just bind it to a string, if you wanted to be a regexp bind it to "%{alias("foo::bar::regexp")}" and bind the regexp string to that key and associate a lookup_option that converts it to a Regexp. You could also have your own backed function if you have lots of these. Josh Cooper A cool feature for hiera would be to support pcore serialization, could be an option to json/yaml backends or a separate backend - it would read json/yaml, and then run that through pcore deserialize before returning the data hash. That way it would be possible to safely produce and return any pcore compatible data type. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian Jira (v8.5.2#805002-sha1:a66f935) -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-bugs/JIRA.370870.1598950851000.28770.1599000960089%40Atlassian.JIRA.