Jira (HI-496) Hiera subkeys lookup should be configurable

[Henrik Lindberg (JIRA)]

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Henrik Lindberg commented on HI-496   Re: Hiera subkeys lookup should be configurable I understand the pain but that will be very difficult to achieve as the defaults are using subkey lookup to get into trusted facts. Note that '.' in keys were never intended to be supported, they just happened to work. Since this has been out now for quite some time, and there has only been one earlier issue-report where this was troublesome enough to file a ticket which we closed that with a Won't Fix (it did suggest we revert the change though), I am also going to close this the same way. What you can do, if you are on one of the latest versions of puppet is to write a wrapper hiera backend. We now support that a hiera backend can be responsible for interpretation of subkeys. It needs to have a method that declares that it wants to do subkey handling on its own, and then the keys will be passed verbatim to the backend (instead of now, being interpreted by hiera itself). Once you have changed all of the keys with a period in them, you can change back to the standard backend. If you are interested in doing this, I can point you to the ticket that describes how it works. Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.12#64027-sha1:e3691cc) -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Bugs" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to puppet-bugs+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to puppet-bugs@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/puppet-bugs. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.