In regard to: Re: [Puppet Users] Getting all variable occurrences from...:
Now I really think we're talking about different things, because this data design seems quite reasonable and I agree that merging a various intermediate keys from a nested data structure ought to work. Indeed this seems like something that is back-end dependent, i.e. a different yaml backend could behave exactly this way behind the scenes when you request the 'ntp' hash for a node, without needing a different hiera_* function at all.
Agreed.
So I guess I should ask, Alexander did I misunderstand what you were asking about in #16003?
My impression is that you understood #16003 correctly, and that the use-case I was asking about is in reality different. I hope Alexander chimes in to confirm or refute that, but I think we're asking about things that seem related but aren't. Keep in mind that I'm not saying I think hiera *must* work the way I've described, I'm just asserting that I can see people potentially thinking it would work that way and I can see some potential benefits to having it work that way. What I'm really asking for, more than anything, is a stance from the designers and architects saying either "bad idea, don't do it" or "yeah, should work and we're not opposed to it". If I need to open a separate ticket to get that kind of directional clarity, I would be happy to do so. Tim -- Tim Mooney tim.moo...@ndsu.edu Enterprise Computing & Infrastructure 701-231-1076 (Voice) Room 242-J6, IACC Building 701-231-8541 (Fax) North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND 58105-5164 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
