Problem with grains/pillar data being interpreted as floating point numbers and not a string

[James Pearson]

I have come across a problem trying to use version numbers as a string that are being interpreted as floating point numbers - whereby any trailing zeros are being stripped off

e.g. I have set up a grain and pillar as 'version' strings:

grain_ver: '123.40'

pillar_ver: '678.900'

and then use the following sls to test:

{% set g = salt['grains.get']('grain_ver') -%}
{% set p = salt['pillar.get']('pillar_ver') -%}
tester:
  test.nop:
    - grain: {{ g }}
    - pillar: {{ p }}
    - grain_with_string: {{ g ~ ' some string' }}
    - pillar_with_space: {{ p ~ ' ' }}
    - both: {{ g ~ p }}

    - both_with_space: {{ g ~ ' ' ~ p }}

when run through state.show_sls it gives:

        test:
            |_
              ----------
              grain:
                  123.4
            |_
              ----------
              pillar:
                  678.9
            |_
              ----------
              grain_with_string:
                  123.40 some string
            |_
              ----------
              pillar_with_space:
                  678.9
            |_
              ----------
              both:
                  123.40678.900
            |_
              ----------
              both_with_space:
                  123.40 678.900

i.e. in some cases it strips off the trailing zeros - but in other cases, its doesn't ?

Is there a 'better' way to prevent trailing zeros being stripped of when what happens to look like a floating point number is actually a string ?

In case it's relevant, I'm using 3006.4 on CentOS 7

Thanks

James Pearson

[James Pearson]

I think I've worked out what I was doing wrong - I need to quote the strings in the sls file - i.e.

{% set g = salt['grains.get']('grain_ver') -%}
{% set p = salt['pillar.get']('pillar_ver') -%}
tester:
  test.nop:
    - grain: '{{ g }}'
    - pillar: '{{ p }}'
    - grain_with_string: '{{ g ~ ' some string' }}'
    - pillar_with_space: '{{ p ~ ' ' }}'
    - both: '{{ g ~ p }}'

    - both_with_space: '{{ g ~ ' ' ~ p }}'

This renders as expected

James Pearson