Hiera lookups in Ruby code

[Dirk Heinrichs]

Hi,

is it possible to do Hiera lookups inside Ruby code, for example in a provider for a new resource type? If so, how?

Thanks...

    Dirk

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[Felix Frank]

Hi,

basically you need to mimic the behavior of Puppet's own hiera()
function to talk to hiera's ruby API, see
https://github.com/puppetlabs/puppet/blob/master/lib/puppet/parser/functions/hiera.rb#L23

Perhaps even more interesting, the way the hiera CLI tool uses the API,
https://github.com/puppetlabs/hiera/blob/master/bin/hiera#L249

HTH,
Felix