Issue #20923 has been updated by Erik Dalén.
Raphaël Pinson wrote: > However, even if `undef` is munged as `nil`, the hiera functions will still > need to munge it to `:undef` internally so as to return `:undef` to Puppet… Yes, exactly. They could even return nil to puppet though, as puppet will treat a nil return from a rvalue function the same as :undef. But that is specifically for the hiera functions, there are many other functions that could benefit from this change as well, for example the stdlib count() function could be made a lot simpler. Also functions like fqdn_rotate() from stdlib could return a correct return value for arrays that contain some undef values. At the moment they are all turned into empty strings in the returned array :( ---------------------------------------- Bug #20923: Hiera cannot take `undef` as a default value https://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/20923#change-91734 * Author: Raphaël Pinson * Status: In Topic Branch Pending Review * Priority: Normal * Assignee: * Category: * Target version: * Affected Puppet version: * Keywords: * Branch: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/1670 ---------------------------------------- As discussed with Jeff McCune yesterday, I believe #13210 is not a duplicate of #15329, as #13210 can be fixed without fixing #15329 per se. Here's the idea: * Implement a new `:honor_undef` option for functions, defaulting to `false`; * Implement a new `:hiera_munge_undef` option in puppet.conf, defaulting to `true` for backwards compatibility; * Use `:honor_undef = true` in all hiera functions when `:hiera_munge_undef` is set to `false`. The code can be found in this PR: https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/pull/1670 -- You have received this notification because you have either subscribed to it, or are involved in it. To change your notification preferences, please click here: http://projects.puppetlabs.com/my/account -- 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 [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
