Data format example or doc link?

[sodabrew]

What should the data retrieved from the HTTP service look like?

If there's documentation on Puppet Labs' site that answers this, could you link to it? :)

[vanzhiganov]

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[crayfishx]

@vanzhiganov @sodabrew It largely depends on what kind of end point you are connecting to... The parameter :output is used to determine this...

If :output is set to json then hiera-http will treat the returned HTTP resonse body as a JSON document and search for the lookup key as a hash element, if that element exists then the value is returned. The same goes for setting :output to yaml. If :output is set to plain then it is assumed that whatever the endpoint returns requires no parsing and is sent back as the response "as-is".... A few examples, let's say you are looking up the key apache::port

Using json

http://my_cms/data/foo/bar returns:

{
  "apache::port": "80",
  "foo::bar": "tango"
}

Using the json setting for output the result 80 will be returned.

Using plain

http://my_cms/data/foo/bar returns:

80

The whole document, in this case, "80" will be returned.

Does this help explain your question?

[vanzhiganov]

@crayfishx very lucidly explained, thank you