http://projects.puppetlabs.com/issues/17105
Hiera booleans are broken -- explicit false value registers as lookup failure
On Jun 5, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Ti Leggett wrote:
> It seems puppet thinks that variables evaluate to true even when they are
> explicitly set to false in hiera YAML.
>
> In my searching it seems like this should be fixed but with hiera 1.2.1 and
> puppet 3.2.1 I'm still seeing this.
>
> In my YAML I have:
>
> # Java directives
> java :
> enable_jdk : false # Install the JDK as well as the JRE
> enable_v6 : true # Install Java 6
> enable_v7 : false # Install Java 7
> openjdk : true # Install OpenJDK
> sun : false # Install Sun
>
>
> And in one of my manifests I do something like:
>
> class java::install (
> $parameters = hiera('java', []),
> ) {
> if $parameters['openjdk'] == true {
> if $parameters['enable_v6'] == true and $java::params::openjdk_6_jre {
> package { $java::params::openjdk_6_jre:
> ensure => latest,
> }
> if $parameters['enable_jdk'] == true and
> $java::params::openjdk_6_jdk {
> package { $java::params::openjdk_6_jdk:
> ensure => latest,
> }
> }
> }
> …
>
> No matter what it thinks it should install the JDK package even though the
> parameter is set to false. I've tried setting it 0, False, n, and N and it
> always evaluates to true. Is this a known bug and if so is there a workaround?
>
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