Jira (HI-417) Hiera YAML does not match standard with regard to multiline strings

[Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)]

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Henrik Lindberg commented on HI-417   Re: Hiera YAML does not match standard with regard to multiline strings If Ruby 1.8.x is used, it is the old Yaml implementation which does not support even Yaml 1.1 (I believe) and it also misbehaves in other ways. In Ruby 1.9 the MRI implementation changed to use Psych which is a wrapper around the native libyaml library. The libyaml library (http://pyyaml.org/wiki/LibYAML) supports Yaml 1.1, and as far as I understand it, there is no support for the special markup for string continuations in 1.1. Hiera is simply using the Yaml support in the Ruby runtime. What you need to do is to escape the newlines that libyaml turns into spaces like this: --- key: "Line1\n\ Line2\n\ Line3" key2: 1 Closing this as a won't fix as this is standard Yaml support in Ruby. Whenever there is a Yaml implementation in Ruby that supports Yaml 1.2 specification then hiera will also get those abilities. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.15#6346-sha1:dbc023d) -- 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.