Jira (HI-127) Allow escaping %{...} in hiera data so that hiera does not try to perform a replacement

[Charlie Sharpsteen (JIRA)]

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Charlie Sharpsteen commented on an issue   Re: Allow escaping %{...} in hiera data so that hiera does not try to perform a replacement Well... sort of. For example, given the following Hiera data: --- some_key: 'This string contains an %{%}{interpolation}' One could define the key "%" to return "%" and thus turn "% {%}" into an escape: # hiera some_key %=% This string contains an %{interpolation} However, this is mostly a hack and would be all sorts of messy to use from Puppet. The idea would be to update the Hiera interpolation code to treat "%{%} " as an escape which would be pretty much backwards compatible as you would have to be doing something crazy to define "%" as a key for Hiera interpolation. I'll look into re-organizing my escape function to achieve this. Add Comment   Hiera / HI-127 Allow escaping %{...} in hiera data so that hiera does not try to perform a replacement I have some data that contains Apache variables (such as %{SERVER_NAME}, %{QUERY_STRING}, etc ) in a Hiera file (Yaml backend). However, when I retrieve the value, the string is replaced with empty value. For instance, for: myserver: http://%{SERVER_NAME} I got the value "http//" I found out that during the lookup in the YAML backend, the answ... 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/d/optout.