failed: Jinja variable 'dict object' has no attribute

[pedro-teixeira]

After a apt-get upgrade I'm having problems with pillar variables and I can't see any error on my side.

Pillar

postfix:
  relay:
    host: "[smtp.example.org]:587"
    user: postmaster@example.org
    api_key: example

Salt

/etc/postfix/main.cf:
  file.managed:
    - source: salt://postfix/files/main.cf
    - template: jinja
    - user: root
    - group: root
    - mode: 644
    - makedirs: true
    - defaults:
        postfix: {{ pillar.postfix }}

/etc/postfix/sasl_passwd:
  file.managed:
    - source: salt://postfix/files/sasl_passwd
    - template: jinja
    - user: root
    - group: root
    - mode: 644
    - makedirs: true
    - defaults:
        postfix: {{ pillar.postfix }}

Result

----------
    Rendering SLS "dev:postfix.config" failed: Jinja variable 'dict object' has no attribute 'postfix'; line 34

---
[...]
   - user: root
   - group: root
   - mode: 644
   - makedirs: true
   - defaults:
       postfix: {{ pillar.postfix }}    <======================

---

Versions

salt-call 2014.1.11 (Hydrogen)
Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS

[zheli]

+1

[cachedout]

Thanks for the report. We'll take a look.

[neilferreira]

+1

[shaunorman]

+ONE

[sevenseacat]

+1

[shadowmint]

+1

[joelwhitehouse]

This issue is also affecting Ubuntu 12.04 LTS with salt-call 2014.1.11 (Hydrogen) running in masterless mode.

[pedro-teixeira]

That's exactly my case. Do you know what version caused this problem so maybe we can rollback until the problem is not fixed?

[zheli]

I went for git version v2014.1.5 and it works fine.

[cachedout]

This appears fixed in 2014.1.12 in my testing. Could somebody please confirm? Thanks!

[thatch45]

@whiteinge you may know something we don't, I did not realize we had attribute lookups on the pillar dict in 2014.1. I will dive in.

[whiteinge]

I haven't caught up on this issue yet but Jinja default behavior will do
dictionary lookups using dot-notation. That doesn't work with the Salt dict
because the keys have dots in the name. Thus my addition to the Jinja
renderer -- which should also affect Pillar. I don't know if that is
related to this or not.

[rallytime]

I know we had a regression with 2014.1.11, but I believe this issue has been fixed with both 2014.1.13 and 2014.7.0. Is anyone still seeing this problem on either of those releases?

[dlax]

@rallytime I also had the problem with 2014.1.11 and went back to .7 in the meantime. I just tried with .13, and the issue does seem to be fixed.

[pedro-teixeira]

Version 2014.1.13 is working fine for me with masterless on Ubuntu.

[rallytime]

Excellent! I'm going to go ahead a close this issue then. If anyone is still seeing problems here, leave a comment and we'll happily re-open.