Jira (PUP-9038) Ability to pass variables into puppet lookup

Issue Type:	New Feature
Affects Versions:	PUP 5.5.3
Assignee:	Thomas Hallgren
Components:	Hiera & Lookup
Created:	2018/08/03 6:05 AM
Priority:	Normal
Reporter:	Nick Maludy

In the old `hiera` CLI you could pass in variables like so:

hiera my_key var1=xxx

With `puppet lookup` this is only possible by supplying a facts file.

puppet lookup --facts facts.yaml my_key

It would be great if the new CLI could support passing variables like the old Hiera 3 CLI did!

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Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)

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Re: Ability to pass variables into puppet lookup

Note that --facts, sets facts (i.e. contents in the $facts hash) and not just top scope variables. In older puppet facts were only top scope variables.

We cannot just have var=xxx since that does not say if it is just a top scope variable, or a fact. Maybe only facts are wanted?

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Maggie Dreyer (Jira)

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Re: Ability to pass variables into puppet lookup

We're not going to get to this any time soon, if there are more customers that are struggling with this, and it needs to be prioritized, please reopen and/or reach out to Nick Walker.