If the value is nil, then it skips that tier entirely.
On Tuesday, July 19, 2016, John Baird <[email protected]> wrote:
> I was using calling_class as an example. %{calling_module} used to work,
> but now does not. Are you aware of what should be used instead? Things
> like %{::hostname} do not work either.
>
> My other real concern is that when using something like
> "%{calling_module}/random_thing", there is no lookup for "/random_thing"
> when calling_module is not interpolated as I would expect it to since it
> should see it as a nil value.
>
> On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 4:59:50 PM UTC-5, Gavin Williams wrote:
>>
>> John
>>
>> Yes, the 'common1' and 'common2' tiers are being ignored because
>> 'calling_class' doesn't expand to anything when running on the command line.
>>
>> Try running
>> hiera -d 'dhcpd::package_name' environment=production calling_class=*x*
>> replacing x with the corresponding class_name you'd expect to be
>> resolving...
>>
>> Gav
>>
>> On Tuesday, 19 July 2016 22:29:41 UTC+1, John Baird wrote:
>>>
>>> If you look at the hiera debug output from the last reply I posted, it
>>> clearly shows that several folders with variables are not looked at when it
>>> should be. Even if it doesn't find data in those folders, hiera should
>>> still explicitly show that it is TRYING to look there, but that doesn't
>>> happen. It clearly is not searching where it should be, which is why
>>> everything is failing unless it's all hard-coded, which is obviously not
>>> ideal.
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, July 19, 2016 at 2:16:10 AM UTC-5, John Baird wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Attempting to use hiera to hold all of my node-specific variables. It
>>>> has been some time since I have run a puppet server, but I know it's not
>>>> THAT hard. That being said, my modules run fine, but hiera is not looking
>>>> them up correctly. It appears that any lines that contain any variables in
>>>> the hiera.yaml are ignore and are not searched. Any assistance would be
>>>> great! I'm sure it's something small, but sooooooo confused...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> HIERA.YAML
>>>> ------------------
>>>> ---
>>>> :backends:
>>>> - yaml
>>>> :yaml:
>>>> :datadir: "/opt/local/modules/hieradata"
>>>> :hierarchy:
>>>> - '%{calling_module}/%{::hostname}'
>>>> - '%{calling_module}/common'
>>>> - common
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> hiera -d 'dhcpd::package_name' environment=production
>>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:48:38 -0400: Hiera YAML backend starting
>>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:48:38 -0400: Looking up dhcpd::package_name in
>>>> YAML backend
>>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:48:38 -0400: Looking for data source common
>>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:48:38 -0400: Cannot find datafile
>>>> /opt/local/modules/hieradata/common.yaml, skipping
>>>> nil
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> ---
>>>> :backends:
>>>> - yaml
>>>> :yaml:
>>>> :datadir: "/opt/local/modules/hieradata"
>>>> :hierarchy:
>>>> - '%{calling_module}/%{::hostname}'
>>>> - '%{calling_module}/common'
>>>> - common
>>>> - puppet_test
>>>>
>>>> hiera -d 'dhcpd::package_name' environment=production
>>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:49:30 -0400: Hiera YAML backend starting
>>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:49:30 -0400: Looking up dhcpd::package_name in
>>>> YAML backend
>>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:49:30 -0400: Looking for data source common
>>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:49:30 -0400: Cannot find datafile
>>>> /opt/local/modules/hieradata/common.yaml, skipping
>>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:49:30 -0400: Looking for data source puppet_test
>>>> DEBUG: 2016-07-18 20:49:30 -0400: Cannot find datafile
>>>> /opt/local/modules/hieradata/puppet_test.yaml, skipping
>>>> nil
>>>>
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