My hiera entries parse incorrectly

[Marc Whittaker]

Hi Everyone,

I have run into an issue using puppet with hiera. The situation is I have the following in a yaml file

- marcstest1.password='Checking\: This'

When I try to fill this into a file using a template similar to below this is what gets put into the file instead

# General Settings

<% props.each do |prop| -%>

<%= prop %>

<% end -%>

marcstest1.password='Checking\This'

when the expected result is marcstest1.password='Checking: This'

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

[Marc Whittaker]

I am using puppet 2.7

[Rich Burroughs]

Hi Marc,

Have you tried removing that backslash? I don't think you need to escape the colon.

Rich 

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[Marc Whittaker]

Actually if I remove the backslash the result is instead

marcstest1.password='CheckingThis'

and if I shift the backslash to after the colon I get 

marcstest1.password='Checking:\ This'

On Friday, 4 July 2014 14:28:09 UTC-4, Rich Burroughs wrote:

Hi Marc,

Have you tried removing that backslash? I don't think you need to escape the colon.

Rich 

On Friday, July 4, 2014, Marc Whittaker <marcwh...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi Everyone,

I have run into an issue using puppet with hiera. The situation is I have the following in a yaml file

- marcstest1.password='Checking\: This'

When I try to fill this into a file using a template similar to below this is what gets put into the file instead

# General Settings

<% props.each do |prop| -%>

<%= prop %>

<% end -%>

marcstest1.password='Checking\This'

when the expected result is marcstest1.password='Checking: This'

Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong?

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[Rich Burroughs]

Ah ok. I was looking at this page:

http://www.yaml.org/YAML_for_ruby.html

Which is linked here:

http://docs.puppetlabs.com/hiera/1/data_sources.html

It seems to indicate that you don't need to escape colons in single quoted strings but maybe I'm misreading it.

I don't think I've ever had a colon in my data. You might try double quotes too if you haven't. Or maybe someone who knows for sure will pipe in :)

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[Marc Whittaker]

Thanks for the suggestions Rich.

I did try double quotes and the result if the same so still no progress.

Hoping someone out there has a colon in their data and can point me in the right direction.

[jcbollinger]

On Monday, July 7, 2014 9:18:07 AM UTC-5, Marc Whittaker wrote:

Thanks for the suggestions Rich.

I did try double quotes and the result if the same so still no progress.

Yours is neither a single-quoted nor a double-quoted value.  It is an unquoted value with a single quotes somewhere in the middle and at the end.  In other words, the quotes are part of the data (which is apparently intentional), not significant to the language syntax.  I think this would work:

- "marcstest1.password='Checking: This'"


John

[Marc Whittaker]

Thank you so much John,

As soon I read your comment the light went on.......