Jira (PUP-7366) Hashes with dots in hiera will no longer fail a puppetrun

[Roland Kool (JIRA)]

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Roland Kool created an issue   Puppet / PUP-7366 Hashes with dots in hiera will no longer fail a puppetrun Issue Type: Bug Affects Versions: PUP 4.9.4 Assignee: Unassigned Created: 2017/03/17 1:06 AM Environment: RHEL7 Priority: Major Reporter: Roland Kool We are in tihe process of moving to puppet 4. One of the issues we encountered with puppet 4.8.2 (puppet-agent 1.8.3) was that when trying to read a hash from hiera that contained a dot in the name. We used 4.8.2 first as 4.9.3 was giving us a lot of issues. However, with the release of 4.9.4, most were fixed so we switched to that. However, I noticed a regression has slipped in where hashes with dots in the name are no longer failing a puppetrun. In fact, they are silently ignored (leaving you resources unmanaged!). The puppetserver also doesn't print any warning about using illegal hash names. Example hash that should fail: my.hash: some: value another: value With puppet 4.8.x, reading this hash with hiera_hash fails the run with: Evaluation Error: Error while evaluating a Function Call, Resolution type :hash is illegal when accessing values using dotted keys. Offending key was .... Add Comment   This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.4.14#64029-sha1:ae256fe) -- 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.