Spot on! Thanks for pointing this out.
Tom
On Friday, September 27, 2013 1:35:42 PM UTC-4, Ellison Marks wrote:
>
> Prefix doesn't return a string, it returns an array. I think this gets
> stringified in the error message, but it screws up the lookup. Try
> hiera($role_value[0]).
>
> On Friday, September 27, 2013 9:32:12 AM UTC-7, Tom Hanstra wrote:
>>
>> I'm having a real trouble getting hiera to work as expected.
>>
>> My current setup has a puppet master and an agent. On both I have the
>> same /etc/hiera.yaml file linked into the /etc/puppet directory. I've also
>> been able to confirm that hiera is seeing the right json files in
>> /var/lib/hiera.
>>
>> What I'm seeing right now is that if I hard code a value (in my case a
>> value called "role_puptest1"). In the class I'm working on, if I hardcode
>> that value into the hiera lookup:
>>
>> $server_role = hiera('role_puptest1')
>>
>> then puppet agent runs just fine. However, if I build the value
>> "role_puptest1" from other information, for instance like this:
>>
>> $role_value = prefix([$hostname],'role_')
>> $server_role = hiera($role_value)
>>
>> I get this error when running the puppet agent:
>>
>> Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on
>> SERVER: Could not find data item role_puptest1 in any Hiera data file and
>> no default supplied at
>> /etc/puppet/modules/server/iptables2/manifests/init.pp:9 on node
>> puptest1.library.nd.edu
>>
>> Based on the error, it is parsing the role_value properly (still has
>> "role_puptest1"), but it is not finding the value in the file. At the same
>> time, command line hiera on both my agent and my master find the file
>> properly:
>>
>> puptest1 800$ hiera role_puptest1
>> role_LOCKSS
>>
>> So, why is the generated value which comes up with the same string of
>> data not finding the record in the hiera data file?
>>
>> I'm using hiera 1.2.1 and puppet 3.2.4 on RHEL 6.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Tom
>>
>>
>>
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