unexpected argument when trying to add a '|' as a string in a datagroup

[matthew-on-git]

the error when running puppet device -v --user=root:

ERROR:/F5_datagroup[/Common/test2_bl_escape_characters]/ensure: change from absent to present failed: Could not set 'present' on ensure: REST failure: HTTP status code 400 detected. Body of failure is: {"code":400,"message":"unexpected argument \"|\"","errorStack":[],"apiError":26214401} at /global_datagroups.pp:111

The relevant code is: f5_datagroup { '/Common/test2_bl_escape_characters': ensure => 'present', type => 'string', records => [ { 'data' => '!', 'name' => '!' }, { 'data' => '$', 'name' => '$' }, { 'data' => ';', 'name' => ';' }, { 'data' => '<', 'name' => '<' }, { 'data' => '>', 'name' => '>' }, { 'data' => '\\', 'name' => '\\' }, { 'data' => '\|', 'name' => '\|' } ], }

From what it looks like, I need to escape the | with something. I've tried '|' and '\|' both. I got the code from exporting an existing datagroup with puppet resource , so it should "just work".

[ericzji]

@matthewmdn Your issue is about how to handle the data group special characters. Please allow me to reach out to F5 REST API team, and will get back to you.

[ericzji]

@matthewmdn The workaround is to add an extra space to the end of the value, in your case: { 'data' => '\ ', 'name' => '\ ' }, { 'data' => '| ', 'name' => '| ' },

thanks

[matthew-on-git]

Great! I'll give it a try

[matthew-on-git]

That did it

[ericzji]

Excellent