Ah I missed that, thanks Craig.


On Thursday, February 21, 2013 12:43:12 PM UTC, Jon Ward wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I've been trying to debug my slow Puppet runs since using hiera-gpg (
> https://groups.google.com/d/topic/puppet-users/CRu_RolrX_8/discussion) 
> and found some unexpected (by me) behaviour in hiera.
>
> It seems that hiera does a lookup for any class parameters, even if they 
> are not hiera functions.
>
> e.g. say I have a class:
>
> class hieratest($default_value="default") {
>>     file { "/tmp/hieratest.txt":
>>         ensure => present,
>>         content => $default_value,
>>     }
>> }
>>
>
> and in my nodes.pp I have
>
> include hieratest
>>
>
> If I run puppetmaster in the foreground and do a 'puppet agent -t' I can 
> see that hiera is looking through my entire hierarchy for 
> hieratest::default_value. I would not expect hiera to do this unless I had 
> put:
>
> class hieratest($default_value=hiera('default_value', "default")) { ... }
>>
>
> I noticed that if I include the 'default_value' var in my hiera 
> common.yaml it is not found / used, however if I put 
> 'hieratest::default_value' in then it is used. Is this the expected 
> behaviour? If so is there any way to include a default parameter in a class 
> without it doing a hiera lookup? This seems to have quite a major impact on 
> my catalog compile time once I add the gpg backend.
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Jon
>
>

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