Jinja macros are not actually functions. The only thing they can return
is a string. In order to return structured data, the callee must
serialize it, and the caller must deserialize it. This state formula
uses YAML as the intermediary, hence the occurrence of both the
`|yaml` (callee) and `|load_yaml` (caller) filters in its code.
The post-render "mapping values are not allowed here" error in
*salt/formulas.sls* or the broken rendering of
*salt/files/master.d/f_defaults.conf* happens because invocations of the
`formulas_git_opt` macro in several Jinja `set` statements do not get
deserialized, resulting in the trailing newline followed by three dot
characters (`...`), which YAML uses to signal the end of a document.
Correcting these rendering errors requires adding the necessary
deserialization code at those locations (i.e., filtering the macro call
through `|load_yaml`).
With a simple pillar like this::
$ sudo salt-call --config-dir /srv/etc/bootstrap --pillar-root /srv/pillar pillar.get salt:pillar_roots
local:
----------
base:
- /srv/pillar
This was generated in /etc/salt/master.d/f_defaults.conf::
# highstate format, and is generally just key/value pairs.
pillar_roots:base:- /srv/pillar
#
Resulting in parse errors by salt::
$ sudo salt '*' state.highstate
[ERROR ] Error parsing configuration file: /etc/salt/master.d/f_defaults.conf - while scanning a simple key
in "<string>", line 531, column 1:
pillar_roots:base:- /srv/pillar
^
could not found expected ':'
in "<string>", line 532, column 1:
#
^
[ERROR ] Error parsing configuration file: /etc/salt/master.d/f_defaults.conf - while scanning a simple key
in "<string>", line 531, column 1:
pillar_roots:base:- /srv/pillar
^
could not found expected ':'
in "<string>", line 532, column 1:
#
^
This patch will fix it as such::
ID: salt-master
Function: file.recurse
Name: /etc/salt/master.d
Result: True
Comment: Recursively updated /etc/salt/master.d
Started: 11:37:12.946823
Duration: 6255.296 ms
Changes:
----------
/etc/salt/master.d/f_defaults.conf:
----------
diff:
---
+++
@@ -528,7 +528,9 @@
# Pillar is laid out in the same fashion as the file server, with environments,
# a top file and sls files. However, pillar data does not need to be in the
# highstate format, and is generally just key/value pairs.
-pillar_roots:base:- /srv/pillar
+pillar_roots:
+ base:
+ - /srv/pillar
#
Resulting in::
# highstate format, and is generally just key/value pairs.
pillar_roots:
base:
- /srv/pillar
#
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