Hiera lookup question

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Hi Greg,

Here is the YAML content.

deploy.yaml

base_location: /opt/base

foohome: location: %{hiera('baselocation')}/foo

boohome: location: %{hiera('baselocation')}/boo

I have other optional components that I can deploy (goo_home)

In the manifest file, I am doing

$foovalue = hiera('foohome') $foolocation = $foovalue['location']

And if I do a lookup for a non existent entry in the YAML, for example:

$goovalue = hiera('goohome')

I was getting "Error: Could not find data item foo in any Hiera data file and no default supplied on node ..."

so I changed it to

$goovalue = hiera('goohome', undef) if $goovalue { $goolocation = $goo_value['location'] }

That's when I got the error "Error: Evaluation Error: The value 'location' cannot be converted to a Numeric. on node "

What I didn't get was why is the if condition getting satisfied for 'undef' value? Once I changed the default to {}

$goovalue = hiera('goohome', {}) if $goovalue { $goolocation = $goo_value['location'] }

The error went away...

Thanks

-Sheshi

Thanks for your reply.

In-fact, I did just that. I was giving 'undef' as the default value. With 'undef' as the default, I was running into a different problem. In my case the optional data in Hiera is a block of key value pairs. I have the code as follows:

$foovalue = hiera('foo', undef) if $foovalue { $foo_location = $foovalue['location'] }

On applying that code, I got the following error,

Error: Evaluation Error: The value 'location' cannot be converted to a Numeric. on node ...

After changing the code to

$foovalue = hiera('foo', {}), it works. It appears I need to give empty {} as opposed to undef.

-Sheshi