hiera 1.3.0 breaks puppet standalone

[Ronen]

It seems as if latest hiera (1.3.0) breaks puppet standalone, running:

puppet apply --modulepath=modules:static-modules manifests/default.pp --hiera_config hiera.yaml

Where hiera.yaml is:

---

:backends:

 - yaml

:logger: console

:hierarchy:

 - '%{::virtual}'

 - common

:yaml:

   :datadir: hieradata

And virtualbox.yaml is (empty yaml file):

---

Results with:

Error: Puppet::Parser::AST::Resource failed with error TypeError: Data retrieved from hieradata/virtualbox.yaml is String not Hash at 

I wanted to open an issue but didn't manage to figure how to do this on puppet website

Any clues on how to resolve this?

[Dan White]

I got a similar error, but found a fix.
Put a placeholder data value in your yaml file or remove it.

I will try opening an issue.

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[Dan White]

Someone else got there first

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/23367

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[Ronen]

Hey Ygor, this seems to effect classes with parameters such as https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppetlabs-apt/blob/master/manifests/init.pp

I can't add parameters for any external class I use (thats what defaults are for), 

It looks as if the parameters values are searched via hiera and fail, also note that the issue you referenced for puppet agent with master (no standalone) and has a different error:

 Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: undefined method `empty?' for false:FalseClass at /etc/puppet/environments/production/modules/resolv/manifests/params.pp:22 on node xxx

While my error is:

Error: Puppet::Parser::AST::Resource failed with error TypeError: Data retrieved from hieradata/virtualbox.yaml is String not Hash at 

Thanks

[Dan White]

http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/23273

Merged pending release

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[Ronen]

Ok ill give master a try to see if it resolve my issue, 

Thanks!

[Dan White]

Please report results.

Good luck

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[Ronen]

Yeap hiera-1.3.0.16 (current master) fixes the issue, in order to build it:

$ git clone g...@github.com:puppetlabs/hiera.git 

$ rake package:bootstrap

$ rake package:gem

Now ill wait for it to be pushed out to rubygems

Thanks