Jira (HI-48) YAML syntax errors should mention the fielname

[Charlie Sharpsteen (JIRA)]

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Charlie Sharpsteen commented on an issue   Re: YAML syntax errors should mention the fielname In general, calling out the offending data source is much better than raising whatever error message the backend produced. In the case of YAML errors, the messages produced by the parser can be particularly obtuse. This situation is aggravated by Ruby 1.9 and newer which uses the Psych YAML parser which is stricter than the old Syck parser. Syck (used in 1.8.x) will accept the unquoted version of %{::ipaddress}:80 while Psych will reject it with the unhelpful error message referenced in the description of this ticket. Add Comment   Hiera / HI-48 YAML syntax errors should mention the fielname This is the error message I was seeing {code}     err: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: (<unknown>): found character that cannot start any token while scanning for the next token at line 43 column 5     warning: Not using cache on failed catalog     err: Could not retrieve catalog; skipping run {code} after so... This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.4#6159-sha1:44eaede) -- 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 http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.