Thank you Martin, it's exactly what I was looking for.

Tidhar


On Tue, Nov 14, 2023 at 9:35 AM Martin Alfke <tux...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Lookup always returns strings.
> You can use alias to retrieve the original value data type.
>
> https://www.puppet.com/docs/puppet/7/hiera_merging.html#alias-function
>
>
> Hth,
> Martin
>
> On 13. Nov 2023, at 17:35, 'Tidhar Klein Orbach' via Puppet Users <
> puppet-users@googlegroups.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I have a hiera file that belongs to a server group. in that file there is
> a key that expects a list of services.
> for example
>
> job_name: "my-job"
> feature:
>   services:
>     - 'foo'
>     - 'bar'
>     - 'baz'
>
> I want to be able to override the values, so I tried to define a default
> key like:
> feature::services:: 'foo,bar,baz'
>
> and then use it:
> job_name: "my-job"
> feature:
>    services: "%{lookup(feature::services)}"
>
> I tried different value variations:
> feature::services:: foo,bar,baz
> feature::services:: ['foo','bar','baz']
> and  also using
> lookup_options:
> feature::services:
> convert_to:
> - "Array"
> - true
>
> but it seems I can't convert the value to string array.
>
> is it possible at all? if so, how can I do it?
>
> thanks,
> Tidhar
>
>
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