Jira (HI-337) Hiera Backends should distinguish key with null value from key not found

[Eric Thompson (JIRA)]

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Eric Thompson commented on HI-337   Re: Hiera Backends should distinguish key with null value from key not found verified on ubuntu14 at SHA: 17afe97 root@sprmkcgs2s4k48e:/etc/puppetlabs/code/hieradata# cat ../hiera.yaml --- :backends: - yaml - json :hierarchy: - defaults - "%{clientcert}" - "%{environment}" - global :yaml: # datadir is empty here, so hiera uses its defaults: # - /etc/puppetlabs/code/hieradata on *nix # - %CommonAppData%\PuppetLabs\hiera\var on Windows # When specifying a datadir, make sure the directory exists. :datadir: :json: :datadir: root@sprmkcgs2s4k48e:/etc/puppetlabs/code/hieradata# cat global.yaml foo: baramu defined_nil: nil niltest: 'Missing key #%{hiera("knotfound")}#. Key with nil #%{hiera("knil")}#. Key with null #%{hiera("knul")}#' knul: null knil: nil array_with_null: - val1 - null - val3 root@sprmkcgs2s4k48e:/etc/puppetlabs/code/hieradata# cat global.json { "foo" : "barjson",   "array_with_null" : [ "valA", null, "valC" ],   "jniltest" : "Missing key #%{hiera('knotfound')}#. Key with null #%{hiera('jknul')}#",   "jknul" : null } root@sprmkcgs2s4k48e:/etc/puppetlabs/code/hieradata# hiera niltest Missing key ##. Key with nil #nil#. Key with null ## root@sprmkcgs2s4k48e:/etc/puppetlabs/code/hieradata# hiera jniltest Missing key ##. Key with null ## root@sprmkcgs2s4k48e:/etc/puppetlabs/code/hieradata# hiera --array array_with_null ["val1", "val3", "valA", "valC"] we probably need more testing on the null array value cases. i'll make a note in the hiera testing ticket... Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.10#6340-sha1:7ea293a) -- 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.