empty hiera yaml file makes lookup fail
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	fgiunchedi
	Feb 19 2015, 3:10 PM

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as discovered in https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/#/c/191512/ having an empty yaml file makes hiera lookup choke with this error:

Error: Could not retrieve catalog from remote server: Error 400 on SERVER: Error
from DataBinding 'hiera' while looking up 'restbase::logging_level': undefined
method `empty?' for nil:NilClass on node restbase1004.eqiad.wmnet

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fgiunchedi created this task.Feb 19 2015, 3:10 PM

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Interim solution should be to not have empty yaml files :)

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closing this, im guessing this has been fixed upstream in the mean time as we currently have empty files

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